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So...just exactly what did she do that makes here an expert on economics or politics?
I missed it...did she claim to be an expert during the interview?
99.9% of the people who post here are nowhere near experts on anything they post.
That doesn't stop them from having opinions, and it shouldn't.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even poets.
I mean, if you want to take that attitude, I want to see the advanced degrees of anyone who posts on a particular subject. If they have none, their opinion is worthless.
There is even one poster who, in her own words, "'barley' made it through high school". Yet she has the nerve to post her opinions here?
Damn, I wonder how you feel about many European economic policies. Some of the most "vulnerable" are the young and the poor in those countries. And European "youth" unemployment ages 18-25 are much higher than the USA.
Only in the distressed southern European countries which entered the Euro with way too high of exchange rates. In countries like France the work place participation rate is actually higher than in the US. Even the Youth employment rate is about comparable.
This is the craziness of America. They put more credence in a poet commenting on economics than people who actually have an education in that field and work in it as their job. People are just too dumb to believe.
But wouldn't economists Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz bascially agree with where Maya Angelou was coming from?
I missed it...did she claim to be an expert during the interview?
99.9% of the people who post here are nowhere near experts on anything they post.
That doesn't stop them from having opinions, and it shouldn't.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even poets.
I mean, if you want to take that attitude, I want to see the advanced degrees of anyone who posts on a particular subject. If they have none, their opinion is worthless.
There is even one poster who, in her own words, "'barley' made it through high school". Yet she has the nerve to post her opinions here?
SMH
The point is that why post an opinion of a poet on economics? I don't think I have ever linked a Milton Friedman critique of Angelou's poetry.
Yet it was his administration that began a generation-long regression in our society's consideration for those most vulnerable. Society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members, and right when it started Angelou noted how Reagan betrayed his moderate projection and undercut our nation's moral stature by initiating decades of economic injustice.
What a bunch of progressive nonsense. Poverty went up under Carter, just as it is under Obama.
When Reagan left office his approval rating was over 70%. This means as a whole (poor, middle and upper classes), the country was pretty happy with him
Would you say Obama has helped the most vulnerable? Black unemployment was at the lowest under GW Bush, and now under Obama it's hovering back where it was under Carter.
Since Obama made that speech, he has served almost four years in the White House, and African-Americans’ median wealth has crashed, their wages have flat lined, their unemployment has spiked, and their political power has waned.
I missed it...did she claim to be an expert during the interview?
99.9% of the people who post here are nowhere near experts on anything they post.
That doesn't stop them from having opinions, and it shouldn't.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even poets.
I mean, if you want to take that attitude, I want to see the advanced degrees of anyone who posts on a particular subject. If they have none, their opinion is worthless.
There is even one poster who, in her own words, "'barley' made it through high school". Yet she has the nerve to post her opinions here?
SMH
So...are you saying she has no particular skills or knowledge about the topic? Again, why should I or anyone else listen to her? It's no different than any Hollywood actor spouting off on a topic they know nothing about. If I want to learn to pretend to be someone else, I'll listen to an actor. If I want to know about economics, I'll listen to a economist, or maybe a CPA or CFO. Just wondering why the OP would bother to quote her.
So...are you saying she has no particular skills or knowledge about the topic? Again, why should I or anyone else listen to her? It's no different than any Hollywood actor spouting off on a topic they know nothing about. If I want to learn to pretend to be someone else, I'll listen to an actor. If I want to know about economics, I'll listen to a economist, or maybe a CPA or CFO. Just wondering why the OP would bother to quote her.
Starting now, whenever someone says something definitive about a topic, I'm going to demand they show me their Masters or PhD, proving that they are experts in the topic.
Furthermore, YOU don't have to listen to her! Who is forcing you to listen to her? Did someone take over your computer and force you to click on the video? Are you so weak-minded as to have no sense of discrimination in what you read or listen to?
If it is so horrendous to you that a poet has opinions on economics and politics, why do you waste your time posting? There seems to be only one reason...an opportunity to bash someone you don't like.
That's all.
No other reason.
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