Thanks a lot, Baby Boomers

[Uncensored2008]

Or, maybe she no sprechen sie Ingles?

Actually, this one spoke English just fine, she was chatting away with her other friends.

 

[BDBoop]

Oh, look; the Shame/Blame Game. Still as boring as it has ever been.

Shouldn't you put the vodka away? Your shift at Mickey Dees starts pretty soon....


I'm just sayin...

YOUR shift at Mickey Dees starts pretty soon. MY shift as a claims intake rep doesn't start for another 1.5 hours.

 

[Uncensored2008]

The majority of books I have read that are required reading for college students are sympathetic to socialism/communism..

Shoot, the book I use is a bit more sympathetic to Keynes than I would like, but it teaches markets, how to calculate PV, NPV, FV, etc. In other words, it's a basic economics textbook from the perspective of U.S. markets.

Few focus on the horrors of socialism/communism, authoritarianism or totalitarianism...

"Li Da" by Nick Knight is a perfect example.

There is no objectivity - actually, reality and facts are blatantly hidden or minimized when it comes to socialism/communism in these books.

I teach economics. It would not be appropriate to broach politics outside of the direct relation to the impact on economics. For instance, we do a section on understand the Federal Reserve, if I were to launch into a diatribe about the Rothchilds or Illuminati, do you think that would be allowed by most Universities? Hardly, we study the structure of the economic system students will deal with. Some will disagree, but in this aspect, economics is a hard science, what is, is.

The same is true in the math, engineering, biology, etc. areas. We teach the facts, that is our duty to the students.

 

[Uncensored2008]

YOUR shift at Mickey Dees starts pretty soon.

You know I am but what are you?

What a clever retort.

No wonder you hide in PM's...

MY shift as a claims intake rep doesn't start for another 1.5 hours.

As long as you can say "You want fries with that," sans stuttering or slurring, you can call yourself anything you want.....

 

[Mr.Nick]

95%? Is that a scientific fact, or are you just making shit up because you can't think of anything clever to say?

Well, I was just making an educated guess.... I would exclude the majority of private faith based universities or colleges, however the strong majority of state universities (and private non-faith based) universities have tenured communists who will brainwash their students with propaganda.....

No, you're a brainwashed Rush/Beck/Foxbot who is absolutely clueless, and you have PLENTY of company here.. Change the channel and get some fresh air...

I don't watch or listen to any of that shit...

The only individual I even have an interest in listening to is Michael Savage, and I only listen to his show once a month these days.... I suppose during the day if I have to commute somewhere my radio in my car is set to AM560 WIND and all they have is Michael Medved and Dennis Miller during the afternoon.

I don't even have cable/satellite TV....

I'm not influenced by anyone or anything.....

I don't believe a fucking word anyone has to say on its face value...

 

[KevinWestern]

Because 95% of colleges and 95% of their faculty praise, support and promote socialism/communism as a utopia and the students adhere to their brainwashing masters.

95%? Is that a scientific fact, or are you just making shit up because you can't think of anything clever to say?

Well, I was just making an educated guess.... I would exclude the majority of private faith based universities or colleges, however the strong majority of state universities (and private non-faith based) universities have tenured communists who will brainwash their students with propaganda.....

If your "educated" guess is that (literally) 95% of colleges and faculty "praise, support and promote socialism/communism", I'd like to know - where exactly did you receive your education from?

 

[Mr.Nick]

The majority of books I have read that are required reading for college students are sympathetic to socialism/communism..

Shoot, the book I use is a bit more sympathetic to Keynes than I would like, but it teaches markets, how to calculate PV, NPV, FV, etc. In other words, it's a basic economics textbook from the perspective of U.S. markets.

Few focus on the horrors of socialism/communism, authoritarianism or totalitarianism...

"Li Da" by Nick Knight is a perfect example.

There is no objectivity - actually, reality and facts are blatantly hidden or minimized when it comes to socialism/communism in these books.

I teach economics. It would not be appropriate to broach politics outside of the direct relation to the impact on economics. For instance, we do a section on understand the Federal Reserve, if I were to launch into a diatribe about the Rothchilds or Illuminati, do you think that would be allowed by most Universities? Hardly, we study the structure of the economic system students will deal with. Some will disagree, but in this aspect, economics is a hard science, what is, is.

The same is true in the math, engineering, biology, etc. areas. We teach the facts, that is our duty to the students.

Well you teach economics - economics usually doesn't focus on social ideas... I suppose basic microeconomics does but that is as far as economics gets to real social ideas....

My intended target was more of the Liberal Arts professors/teachers.....

I cant see how economics could even be political, maybe theoretical (such as Keynesian)...

 

[BDBoop]

YOUR shift at Mickey Dees starts pretty soon.

You know I am but what are you?

What a clever retort.

No wonder you hide in PM's...

MY shift as a claims intake rep doesn't start for another 1.5 hours.

As long as you can say "You want fries with that," sans stuttering or slurring, you can call yourself anything you want.....

And I'm supposed to believe you're a teacher? Alrighty then.

 

[Mr.Nick]

95%? Is that a scientific fact, or are you just making shit up because you can't think of anything clever to say?

Well, I was just making an educated guess.... I would exclude the majority of private faith based universities or colleges, however the strong majority of state universities (and private non-faith based) universities have tenured communists who will brainwash their students with propaganda.....

If your "educated" guess is that (literally) 95% of colleges and faculty "praise, support and promote socialism/communism", I'd like to know - where exactly did you receive your education from?

2 years community college and 2 years at the University of Illinois....

 

[Misty]

Look at your post this way, if you blame baby boomers for the situation we are in now, just think about the state of our country when you young ones suck your share out of the country.

This is what we are talking about when we say Obama, via his healthcare agenda, will stick your generation with a nightmare ten times what it is now.

 

[KevinWestern]

Well you teach economics - economics usually doesn't focus on social ideas... I suppose basic microeconomics does but that is as far as economics gets to real social ideas....

My intended target was more of the Liberal Arts professors/teachers.....

I cant see how economics could even be political, maybe theoretical (such as Keynesian)...

Nick, I think economics goes hand in hand with politics, a lot more than in other subjects such as accounting, finance, engineering, to name a few.

 

[Uncensored2008]

And I'm supposed to believe you're a teacher? Alrighty then.

Oh, you can believe I'm Art Carney, if you like.

Makes no difference to me.

 

[kwc57]

95%? Is that a scientific fact, or are you just making shit up because you can't think of anything clever to say?

Well, I was just making an educated guess.... I would exclude the majority of private faith based universities or colleges, however the strong majority of state universities (and private non-faith based) universities have tenured communists who will brainwash their students with propaganda.....

No, you're a brainwashed Rush/Beck/Foxbot who is absolutely clueless, and you have PLENTY of company here.. Change the channel and get some fresh air...

Yawn!

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[francoHFW]

Well, I was just making an educated guess.... I would exclude the majority of private faith based universities or colleges, however the strong majority of state universities (and private non-faith based) universities have tenured communists who will brainwash their students with propaganda.....

No, you're a brainwashed Rush/Beck/Foxbot who is absolutely clueless, and you have PLENTY of company here.. Change the channel and get some fresh air...

I don't watch or listen to any of that shit...

The only individual I even have an interest in listening to is Michael Savage, and I only listen to his show once a month these days.... I suppose during the day if I have to commute somewhere my radio in my car is set to AM560 WIND and all they have is Michael Medved and Dennis Miller during the afternoon.

I don't even have cable/satellite TV....

I'm not influenced by anyone or anything.....

I don't believe a fucking word anyone has to say on its face value...

Obviously you DO. It's ALL the same RW propaganda LIES. Google any RW bs story that breaks, and within 20 minutes you get 8 google pages of lockstep horse patoot before the first Dem/"LW"/fact based website pays attention, but by that time the whole Pub Propaganda machine is on to the next "outrage", and the first story is "well known fact" LOL. Disgraceful. Hoping for your recovery.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Nick, I think economics goes hand in hand with politics, a lot more than in other subjects such as accounting, finance, engineering, to name a few.

Not at the level that I teach. Students need to understand how monetary systems and markets work. In the end, they still need to be able to gauge the cost of money, what future value is and why they need to know it. Forget political arguments of macro-economic systems, students need to grasp how markets function before any of that is relevant.

 

[Mr.Nick]

Well you teach economics - economics usually doesn't focus on social ideas... I suppose basic microeconomics does but that is as far as economics gets to real social ideas....

My intended target was more of the Liberal Arts professors/teachers.....

I cant see how economics could even be political, maybe theoretical (such as Keynesian)...

Nick, I think economics goes hand in hand with politics, a lot more than in other subjects such as accounting, finance, engineering, to name a few.

No...

Economics like accounting should have absolutely nothing to do with politics...

Politics are what impedes economics....

Capitalism is the only successful economic model.... Quite frankly I wouldn't even call socialism an economic model considering the idea is more social than economic....

I would certainly label a dictated economy (or planned economy) not economic but an economy dictated by a social outcome.... Almost the opposite of true capitalism...

 

[Interpol]

So baby boomers....

(1) Go to college dirt cheap, then jack up the price about 700% by the time I attended, (2) traded the idea of sane responsible banking for a "live for the moment" get rich quick profit scheme that crashed our global economy in 2006-2008, and (3) have drilled a giant divide in Washington D.C. by encouraging and perpetuating a nasty culture of political extremism.

Am I just being cynical, or does the "baby boom" generation have some explaining to do?

Sort of a half serious post, but I just thought I'd throw it out there.

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I get what you're saying.

It sometimes troubles me how one generation can completely forget what made the previous one work.

My grandparents generation picked themselves up after the Depression and created the safety net. It was a time when America insisted on not being second rate at anything, and instead of waging a race to the bottom with countries like China when it comes to job security and benefits, they propped each other up, only for the boomers to come along and undo everything.

It's like we've been taken back to the 20's instead of appreciating and mending the aspects of the safety net that actually work alright!

 

[Mr.Nick]

When looking at an economy one must strongly take "cause and effect" into consideration...

Economic methods and practices have no political leaning - only people impede or disrupt the economy via their actions (or lack thereof)...

 

[francoHFW]

Well, I was just making an educated guess.... I would exclude the majority of private faith based universities or colleges, however the strong majority of state universities (and private non-faith based) universities have tenured communists who will brainwash their students with propaganda.....

No, you're a brainwashed Rush/Beck/Foxbot who is absolutely clueless, and you have PLENTY of company here.. Change the channel and get some fresh air...

Yawn!

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The one trick is figuring out you believe a pile of RW BULLSHYTTE from the biggest propaganda machine the USA has ever seen.

Murdoch the REAL thug and the hordes of RW bought off liars are a threat to our wonderful country. Murdoch is about to be thrown out of the UK, should be here too. A liar/bully/thug.

Read something fer chrissake, and not RW BS, one of those "marxist", actually respected worldwide, NY Times, Wash. Post, or even USA Today or your local big city paper. Get off the net, it's 90% RW BS, because it's so easy to make money off the dupes...

 

[asaratis]

Why's that, Nick/Sniper?

Do you have a Che' Tee-Shirt?

I was at Magic Mountain last summer and a teen Mexican girl had a Che' shirt on; I blurted out "what the fuck are you wearing that for, was your Osama bin Laden shirt dirty?" I thought my wife would have apoplexy. The girl seemed too dumb to comprehend the connotation.

No, I don't have a Che shirt. Why the should I care about some random Marxist revolutionary? Sniper/Nick like to put people in buckets; it makes 'understanding' the world easier for them, because it saves them from having to think too hard.

Pot/Kettle

Because 95% of colleges and 95% of their faculty praise, support and promote socialism/communism as a utopia and the students adhere to their brainwashing masters.

I teach a college class, Nick. I'm sure not praising socialism.

The liberal arts and humanities areas do not reflect hard science, finance and economics. You'll find the latter to be mostly moderate to conservative.

The majority of books I have read that are required reading for college students are sympathetic to socialism/communism..

Few focus on the horrors of socialism/communism, authoritarianism or totalitarianism...

"Li Da" by Nick Knight is a perfect example.

There is no objectivity - actually, reality and facts are blatantly hidden or minimized when it comes to socialism/communism in these books.

The liberal college professors have their own communal system embedded in their own labor union in order to assure their jobs are not taken from them due to their own incompetency. Tenured professors cannot be fired. That is pretty much a communist thing. One might logically expect praise of communism to come from such a group.

Engineering schools are likely to present less praise of politics than do the liberal arts schools. However, I did have an English prof at Georgia Tech that made sure we all knew he was pro-collectivism. The math and engineering profs rarely revealed their political fantasies. They seemed more keen on teaching students how to use their own brains rather than convincing them to join a certain party.

BTW, Kevin...the tsunami of citizens that came as baby boomers created waves of demands for certain goods to begin and end understandably in sequences. First came diapers, cribs, baby food, baby clothes..then toddler goods and toys along with other foods and cereals, then schools and teachers, then teenager staples and so on until it got to be time for the first baby boomer to go to college. Then the demand for college educations rose...and of course, the baby boomers started having babies of their own.

I am not aware as to why 1967 was chosen as the end of the baby boom. 21 years seems a bit long for all the boys to "come home". It appears that the boom in births started a few years before the boys came home. (Maybe there was a lot of infidelity while the boys were away...or maybe a lot of the boys wanted the wife to be pregnant before they left.)

Anyway, it is perfectly natural for the cost of college education to rise with the demand...and due to INFLATION. Most people that were born in 1967 have likely completed all the college they plan to do. But the price ain't gonna fall much.

Blame who you want. It doesn't matter one bit to me.