I don't like college-educted people.

[initforme]

Please try that post again. This time don't type it with your nose.

Ok describe a viable alternattive to entry level wages for some awful lesser know nothing ignorant employer.

 

[Lockback]

I don’t like college educated people much and I will tell you why:

Don’t you just love college-educated people? Where would we be without them? I read Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell in 2009 and have never looked at scholarly leadership the same way since. Here is an example of educated incompetence I noticed that started a war, lead to the Arab spring, and eventually the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001:

April Glaspie, President George H. W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq, an eminently educated US diplomat traveled to Iraq in 1990 on a fact-finding mission to discover why Saddam Husein was massing troops along the border of Kuwait. Saddam was not an English-speaker, so he used interpreters in those meetings. You would think that a highly educated person like Glaspie would have taken that into account in a very important meeting like that. But Glaspie was not just an educated person, she was a box checking female or what would be referred to today as a sparkling early icon of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The highlight of the meeting was Glaspie uttering that “the US has no opinion on Arab/Arab affairs”, which Saddam took as a promise that the US would do nothing substantial other than diplomatic condemnation. Saddam promptly invaded Kuwait.

You do not have to be genius to see where that educated ineptitude led—the Gulf War, the Arab Spring, and 3,000 casualties in New York City. The real travesty was that Glaspie was not fired. She was promoted and given more responsibilities reserved for educated elites.

A lot of people are dead so educated elites can have great jobs, but I guess it is what it is.

In general, I'm in total agreement with you.
I have a college degree but it's 51 years old and the Communists were just starting to make inroads at that time but weren't dominating. I had two professors who admitted they were Communists and I did everything I could to embarrass them in class, with pretty good results.
Nowadays, of course, it's dominated by socialists/queers/weirdos/trannies/anarchists/creeps and it shows.
Two of my wife's three kids emerged from college with really warped, leftist viewpoints after entering with basically apolitical views.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if I had kids of college age today, I would encourage them to attend trade schools and avoid college altogether. It's grossly overpriced and horrendously overrated unless you're training to be a physician or lawyer or a few other things.
And God knows we have far too many lawyers as it is.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Ok describe a viable alternattive to entry level wages for some awful lesser know nothing ignorant employer.

Community college to learn a skill.

My grandson is going to be an electrician.

 

[Unkotare]

Pleasecdescribe sn acceptable slternative. I will refute it. But try.

Whatever the hell they want. YOU could start by learning English.

 

[Lockback]

Community college to learn a skill.

My grandson is going to be an electrician.

Smart young man.
That's where the money is, not women's studies or American history.



I know.



My degree was in American history.

And I ended up in the offset printing business.

 

[initforme]

Community college to learn a skill.

My grandson is going to be an electrician.

I already stated a trade skill is a viable alternative. After that, nothing.

 

[initforme]

Smart young man.
That's where the money is, not women's studies or American history.



I know.



My degree was in American history.

I cannot imagine a more boring thing to learn. I give you kudos for learning all that stuff.

 

[EdwinAMartin]

ose statistics are inclusive of all degrees

Like all averages, a handful of successful ones make the numbers look a lot better than they really are. What's the 'average income' of 99 people at the homeless shelter when Bill Gates walks in?

 

[frigidweirdo]

I don’t like college educated people much and I will tell you why:

Don’t you just love college-educated people? Where would we be without them? I read Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell in 2009 and have never looked at scholarly leadership the same way since. Here is an example of educated incompetence I noticed that started a war, lead to the Arab spring, and eventually the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001:

April Glaspie, President George H. W. Bush’s Ambassador to Iraq, an eminently educated US diplomat traveled to Iraq in 1990 on a fact-finding mission to discover why Saddam Husein was massing troops along the border of Kuwait. Saddam was not an English-speaker, so he used interpreters in those meetings. You would think that a highly educated person like Glaspie would have taken that into account in a very important meeting like that. But Glaspie was not just an educated person, she was a box checking female or what would be referred to today as a sparkling early icon of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The highlight of the meeting was Glaspie uttering that “the US has no opinion on Arab/Arab affairs”, which Saddam took as a promise that the US would do nothing substantial other than diplomatic condemnation. Saddam promptly invaded Kuwait.

You do not have to be genius to see where that educated ineptitude led—the Gulf War, the Arab Spring, and 3,000 casualties in New York City. The real travesty was that Glaspie was not fired. She was promoted and given more responsibilities reserved for educated elites.

A lot of people are dead so educated elites can have great jobs, but I guess it is what it is.

So you hate all college educated people, because some of them ran the country and went to war?

 

[Lockback]

I cannot imagine a more boring thing to learn. I give you kudos for learning all that stuff.

Oh, it was a labor of love.
I love American history. So it wasn't a burden it all. I went where my interests lay.

 

[initforme]

Oh, it was a labor of love.
I love American history. So it wasn't a burden it all. I went where my interests lay.

Admirable. For me american history was something i cared zero about. That goes for all history.

 

[Lockback]

Admirable. For me american history was something i cared zero about. That goes for all history.

I understand that completely.
My family only did one family vacation in our lives. We weren't blessed with a lot of money, although I had a comfortable upbringing and a lot of support and love.
That one vacation was to Williamsburg, VA. mainly because my single-parent mom thought it would be a cool place to visit.
She was right.
It lit my fascination with the Founding Fathers and with American history and a year later when I entered college, I initially chose Journalism as my major but was terribly bored by it and switched to history.
I ended up being a skilled tradesman, a printer, so my degree did me little or no financial good.
But I was fortunate because my college education was paid for.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Whatever the hell they want. YOU could start by learning English.

You could start by being more secure.

 

[Unkotare]

You could start by being more secure.

All set.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Smart young man.
That's where the money is, not women's studies or American history.



I know.



My degree was in American history.

And I ended up in the offset printing business.

My degree was in history, but I was the most technical history degree you have ever seen, because the Navy required it. They made me into a steam propulsion engineer. After the Navy I taught school because my history degree got me a temporary certification to teach math while I finished my math credits. I also taught history classes often at the same time.

My youngest has a degree in biology because she had hoped to one day become a veterinarian. The Army put her in logistics and she turned that into supply chain work for an EV battery company, but they slowed down so bad she left before they laid her off. She had an interview today to handle inventory management for a hospital in Lacrosse WI where she will be moving with her Army Major fiancée. She has a few more potential jobs up there and she goes up there to close on their house in a week.

 

[citygator]

Like all averages, a handful of successful ones make the numbers look a lot better than they really are. What's the 'average income' of 99 people at the homeless shelter when Bill Gates walks in?

They are medians not averages.