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Old 05-13-2011, 03:09 PM
 
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Pay attention, Mike Rowe puts this better than anyone I've ever seen before. You routinely attack conservatives and Republicans and throw around lies that we hate higher education. You claim that we have a problem with college education when on average people like myself in the Tea Party are better educated than the general population and certainly Democrats. You insinuate that you're better than a bunch of redneck, hicks who do think that you couldn't do for yourself if you wanted to because you lack the skills. As a conservative (not a Republican) who knows how to repair my own vehicles, who knows how fix my own plumbing, Who does his own electrical wiring, who fixes just about anything around my own home which I mostly built myself and who knows how to do carpentry work, knows how to weld and knows how to catch or kill my own food in a time of need I can honestly say that I don't hate education or anyone with a college diploma because I have one myself. What I hate are people who believe that I owe them something because they had a rough life or because their great great great grandfather was a slave. I hate people who look down on others because they do a job that they feel is beneath them while raising hell about their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits is running out.

Watch this video, I don't know Mike Rowe's political affiliation nor do I care. He makes a few points that a lot of people really need to hear and comprehend.


YouTube - Mike Rowe Speaks To Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee [05-11-11]
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:16 PM
 
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Well, theres a qualified expert in the field.
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:18 PM
 
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Shop Class was one of my favorite classes in high school. That's probably why I'm a contractor now who builds and fixes things.
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:20 PM
 
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Never heard of him, who is Mike Rowe?
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:23 PM
 
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Conservatives, stop blathering about only Liberals respecting education if it actually offends you. Thank you.
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:24 PM
 
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Never heard of him, who is Mike Rowe?
Don't worry about it, you wouldn't understand anyway.
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:25 PM
 
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Conservatives, stop blathering about only Liberals respecting education if it actually offends you. Thank you.
What were you trying to say?
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:26 PM
 
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Don't worry about it, you wouldn't understand anyway.
That's about as civil a reply as I expected from you....
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:29 PM
 
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That's about as civil a reply as I expected from you....
If you don't have the initiative to spend 5 seconds on the web to find out who Mike Rowe is you don't deserve a civil reply, you're lucky I replied at all.
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Old 05-13-2011, 03:30 PM
 
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What were you trying to say?
Think for yourself...

"Liberals are always talking about the value of a college education, when they fail to realize that for many majors, (generally the majors most leftists major in like art, philosophy, gender studies, basket weaving, protesting), there is absolutely no value."

The above is a
a) Liberal argument
b) Conservative argument
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