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Old 08-03-2011, 12:07 AM
 
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Rutgers Prof: Rep. Paul Ryan's wine choice speaks volumes | NJ.com

(I'm posting this here, not in P&C, b/c the woman works at Rutgers and she posted her "issue" on a NJ news site.)

So RU Associate Prof Susan Feinberg is out in DC, at a pricey restaurant (trying to ignore that fact by saying she was there for a "special birthday dinner") and feels the need to confront a table of politicians and hedge fund managers about the expensive bottles of wine they ordered. All because she feels that since others can't afford the same, and the cost of the wine could be someone's weekly/monthly salary.... Ryan, et. al, should have been drinking toilet water, perhaps even digging through the dumpsters outside the restaurant for their meal.

She even took pictures of them with her cell phone in hopes that Ryan's two dinner companions were lobbyists

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.....asking Feinberg about the cost of the wine at her table, which is clearly visible in the photos she snapped of Ryan and his friends. It appears to be an $80 bottle of Thierry et Pascale Matrot 2005 Meursault. York notes that’s not exactly a “minimum wage” beverage. Our courageous defender of the poor and scourge of hypocrisy answered with a terse “I have no comment on this.”
Does she not realize where she works? Football team/stadium/coach salary costs what? Student fees and tuition is rising why? Ex-President is making how much for doing what? How many kids from minimum wage/low income/middle class are not going to be able to afford RU because of the increases? But she's ok with dining out in DC, at a pricey, up-scale restaurant while some students might have to drop out or defer their education b/c the tax payer funded school she works for....

Don't crap where you eat Proffessor, never a good thing!
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Old 08-03-2011, 01:59 AM
 
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Some of the most out-of-touch-with-the real-world individuals I've known were college professors.

Not all, mind you, but enough to get a laugh out of it.
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Old 08-03-2011, 07:16 AM
 
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Default out-of-touch-with-the real-world individuals I've known were college professors

And most of the ones i met when i went to my kids college campus were left wing liberal fanatics.
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Old 08-03-2011, 08:34 PM
 
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Some of the most out-of-touch-with-the real-world individuals I've known were college professors.

Not all, mind you, but enough to get a laugh out of it.
I hear you. And yes, I agree. Not all, but enough!
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Old 08-03-2011, 08:36 PM
 
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And most of the ones i met when i went to my kids college campus were left wing liberal fanatics.
RU is full of them...
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Old 08-03-2011, 09:46 PM
 
Location: Bergen County, NJ
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RU is full of them...
WPU too(minus the business department).
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Old 08-04-2011, 03:59 PM
 
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Completely agree with the first thing that was said in this. I recently studied abroad, and was baffled at how cheap undergraduate and graduate studies were over there (I really should've considered those options more!). Needless to say this Associate Professor is calling the cow spotted. She has no credibility on this issue, no matter how lib she is, based on her career.
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Old 08-04-2011, 04:06 PM
 
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"I left the restaurant wondering why the reaction was so vehement"

Really? She couldn't figure it out? She should be fired for being that stupid and having access to our youth.
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Old 08-04-2011, 04:08 PM
 
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"I left the restaurant wondering why the reaction was so vehement"

Really? She couldn't figure it out? She should be fired for being that stupid and having access to our youth.

Hah truth. In reality they're probably looking to promote her
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