Scott Walker's lack of a college degree: A non-issue that Democrats should avoid — His lack of a college degree is not one of them — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has emerged as a modest front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination in the past couple of weeks. This may well be a temporary state of affairs.
Editor's notes: No degree, but college educated, nonetheless, and 72% of the population has no college degree. A healthy percentage (20 to 30%) of that "72%" has [some] college back. Apple, Facebook and the Gates Foundation, were all started by individuals with college backgrounds but no degrees. Live with it Democrats. You have a college grad in office, now, and look at the mess he has created.
OK. You're in the hospital and suppose you're having major surgery to save your life, do you want a college drop out or someone with an Ivy League education? Same thing goes for making the decisions on running this country.
ReplyDeleteThis is typical of conservatives 'war on education' ... Walker just cut $300 million from the state university system. That is how much he values education. Let's see how that helps his state.
It's all appropriate. The biggest mouthpieces of the GOP are know-nothing college drop outs including Limbaugh, Hannity, and Beck. (Not to mention former drug addicts in the cases of Limbaugh and Beck).
Smart people tend to listen to smart people. The reverse is of course, also true ... as we see proven by this blog every day.
Ok. You just won the presidency. The folks look to you for the financial leadership of this nation, but you have never so much as run a fruit stand and cannot cannot cannot put together a budget proposal that does not get a single congressional vote in either the House or the Senate. You won the presidency of the greatest nation on earth, the greatest testament for democracy in human history and, yet, you believe that some weird combination of Marxist inspired very old and failed social ideas is the path to a new wonderful world. As a result, in January of 2015, your nation, under your leadership, created 257,000 jobs in the same month that 305,000 gave up looking for a job and walked away from the workforce . . . . . . a monthly report that has been typical to the last six years., typical to a fualt. You have won the presidency and are charged with bringing the nation together, yet, you immediately take sides in partisan politics, and look to Annita Dunn, Al Sharpton, Van Jones, Eric Holder, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farakhan, Bill Ayers, Valarie Jarrett, advisers coming to him out of CAIR, the New Black Panthers and the Muslim Brotherhood, as you expand the the influence of the most divisive and radical Administration in our nation's history. You just won the presidency and tell the world you intend to extend a hand, not a fist. Six years later, the world has broken your arm and stuffed your hand down your throat and, yet, you still don't understand. My point? Education without a political sense of timing and experience, is more than useless, it is dangerous.
DeleteOr, how about this: you just graduated from medical school with highest honors and have completed your four year internship. You are now, officially, a doctor . . . . . . . maybe a surgeon. I need heart surgery and I have a choice, to ask you to open me up or go someone "in the trade" for 30 years, but, who finished in the middle of class, scholastically. Who would I chose? Obviously, the older of the two. And why ? Because experience trumps scholastic education every time.
Walkers experience trumps any elitist criticism about his education. He has served the people at every level including a second term as governor. Case closed.
As far as the 300 million bucks. Beginning with September of 2017, the following the coming Wisconsin budget, the state collegiate system will have full autonomy as to tuition. An increase of $5 a semester in tuition, would erase this cut. You trying to make a mountain out of a moll hill.
1) Walker has a freeze on tuition raises that lasts until 2017 and he is seeking to extend them further. http://badgerherald.com/news/2015/02/16/walker-open-to-further-tuition-freeze-extensions-rises-concern-over-uw-systems-budget/#.VOUqa7DF8z4
Delete2) This war on education is real. It's happening everywhere. i.e... Republican legislative committees in Oklahoma and Georgia overwhelmingly approved a bill that would cut funding for the teaching of Advanced Placement U.S. History ... citing that it's not 'christian enough' and focuses too much on topics like 'civil rights' , etc... This is just a part of an outrageous war on education that is crippling America. Textbooks have been altered, teaching of creationism in the place of science - as in the Republican bill in TN allows. It is really pathetic. Clearly, education is the enemy of the GOP.
The stupid is strong on one side of the aisle.
"The stupid is strong . . . . . . ." ????? I will leave at that, genius.
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