Education and The Inner American Leader
The more we see of the American Leader's behavior, the more we understand just how awful a person he really is. I'd hate to have the spotlight burn so intensely and relentlessly on all my words and activities (though I'd hopefully hold up to the scrutiny). But I didn't run for Leader, and I wasn't appointed to the job by a College after I'd lost. I call that getting "unlected."
Part of the big reveal is in the selection of the Leader's "Moron Cabinet." Each selection serves to highlight a different personal failure of the Orangutan Executive.
Since Betsy DeVos - possibly the least capable person ever to be a Secretary in any department, ever, is about to unveil her (and American Leader's) big Education plan, let's start there. What does education mean to the billionaire heiress and her primitive boss?
Leader went to Wharton for an undergraduate education. Wharton does a few things for the Leader. First, it's a "name" school - graduates have a certain cachet on the market (at least they did before Leader). So an education can give you name recognition. What else? Well, Leader can claim that he graduated first in his class. Records from all the way back then aren't digitized so you can't Google it. And the school, helpfully, won't confirm anything but the fact of graduation. The Daily Pennsylvanian puts it on record as a lie. He wasn't even on the 56-name Dean's List.
Go journalism!
The school is and was expensive, so there is very limited elbow-rubbing with the Hoi Polloi - that's a feature. No use going to a school with a bunch of losers who won't grow up to be bankers you can sucker on Real Estate deals.
School was about raising your profile and making cash connections for the future, and likely sexual liaisons of some kind. But that's it.
Judging from all his words and actions in the time he's been under the closest scrutiny, this is a profoundly ignorant man. Not (necessarily) stupid. But intellectually uncurious to an astounding degree. He reminds us daily - hourly - of his lack not only of knowledge but of insight. A man with a two-minute attention span will never get to the heart of anything.
Which brings us back to the cold reality of Education Secretary Heiress DeVos. Her plan for all of America is to make American education fit the Leader's paradigm.
So here it is. Knowledge is worthless for its own sake, so there's no great need to provide it to the unwashed, Libtards like to stomp around about how the Poors need learning but for what? Why does my future janitor need to study algebra? Why does my future limo driver need to read Shakespeare? The future minimum-wage cashiers don't even need to add and subtract figures - the register does that for them.
If education has no value in itself, its value can only be found in it's cash flow. Expensive schools weed out the scum and turn a nice profit. Why not take the profit from lazy gubmint teachers and give it to Deserving corporations?
Education has no value outside of its monetary value. So why is it still free to freeloaders? Everybody can get education now - and you can't even segregate the schools since the 'good old days.' So Deserving rich kids have to go to school with Undeserving greedy 'Taker' kids (sometimes). Hell - they even feed the poor kids!
Heiress Betsy has a solution for all that: vouchers. With a voucher system, the Deserving rich can top up their vouchers with lovely piles of their own cash and get their Over-Deserving Unicorn kids into the expensive private schools which they double deserve because of their wise choice of parents.
Meanwhile, the Poors can send their kids to schools that will take basic (free!) voucher money. And they'll keep costs down by not paying teachers and having no libraries and holding school in a strip mal or (better) church. And since the vouchers will only pay a nickel on today's education dollar, there's Small Gubmint!
The next logical step is to slash university funding and raise the costs and debt collections of student loans. That's clearly a win-win. That way, if an Undeserving Poor manages to get a
degree, the Deserving banks can still milk them for decades.
She's going to propose pay-for-play at all levels of education. No knowledge anymore. No social or economic mobility. Just like the leader wants it.
My only question about this dementia is: where does it come from? What poor kids pissed in Heiress Betsy's corn flakes 50 years ago? She's been spending millions of her inherited wealth to press for a voucher system to take educational opportunity away from poor and middle-class people for years. And she admits that she bought her current gig with those expenditures.
Why? Why is she so desperate to hurt less fortunate kids (in her case that's pretty much all of them)? I guess you could ask that about all the appointees - and the Repubs in Congress. Why are they so passionate about hurting people?
At this point I just hope I never really get it. I'd hate to be cruel enough to even understand their cruelty.
Part of the big reveal is in the selection of the Leader's "Moron Cabinet." Each selection serves to highlight a different personal failure of the Orangutan Executive.
Since Betsy DeVos - possibly the least capable person ever to be a Secretary in any department, ever, is about to unveil her (and American Leader's) big Education plan, let's start there. What does education mean to the billionaire heiress and her primitive boss?
Leader went to Wharton for an undergraduate education. Wharton does a few things for the Leader. First, it's a "name" school - graduates have a certain cachet on the market (at least they did before Leader). So an education can give you name recognition. What else? Well, Leader can claim that he graduated first in his class. Records from all the way back then aren't digitized so you can't Google it. And the school, helpfully, won't confirm anything but the fact of graduation. The Daily Pennsylvanian puts it on record as a lie. He wasn't even on the 56-name Dean's List.
Go journalism!
The school is and was expensive, so there is very limited elbow-rubbing with the Hoi Polloi - that's a feature. No use going to a school with a bunch of losers who won't grow up to be bankers you can sucker on Real Estate deals.
School was about raising your profile and making cash connections for the future, and likely sexual liaisons of some kind. But that's it.
Judging from all his words and actions in the time he's been under the closest scrutiny, this is a profoundly ignorant man. Not (necessarily) stupid. But intellectually uncurious to an astounding degree. He reminds us daily - hourly - of his lack not only of knowledge but of insight. A man with a two-minute attention span will never get to the heart of anything.
Which brings us back to the cold reality of Education Secretary Heiress DeVos. Her plan for all of America is to make American education fit the Leader's paradigm.
So here it is. Knowledge is worthless for its own sake, so there's no great need to provide it to the unwashed, Libtards like to stomp around about how the Poors need learning but for what? Why does my future janitor need to study algebra? Why does my future limo driver need to read Shakespeare? The future minimum-wage cashiers don't even need to add and subtract figures - the register does that for them.
If education has no value in itself, its value can only be found in it's cash flow. Expensive schools weed out the scum and turn a nice profit. Why not take the profit from lazy gubmint teachers and give it to Deserving corporations?
Education has no value outside of its monetary value. So why is it still free to freeloaders? Everybody can get education now - and you can't even segregate the schools since the 'good old days.' So Deserving rich kids have to go to school with Undeserving greedy 'Taker' kids (sometimes). Hell - they even feed the poor kids!
Heiress Betsy has a solution for all that: vouchers. With a voucher system, the Deserving rich can top up their vouchers with lovely piles of their own cash and get their Over-Deserving Unicorn kids into the expensive private schools which they double deserve because of their wise choice of parents.
Meanwhile, the Poors can send their kids to schools that will take basic (free!) voucher money. And they'll keep costs down by not paying teachers and having no libraries and holding school in a strip mal or (better) church. And since the vouchers will only pay a nickel on today's education dollar, there's Small Gubmint!
The next logical step is to slash university funding and raise the costs and debt collections of student loans. That's clearly a win-win. That way, if an Undeserving Poor manages to get a
degree, the Deserving banks can still milk them for decades.
She's going to propose pay-for-play at all levels of education. No knowledge anymore. No social or economic mobility. Just like the leader wants it.
My only question about this dementia is: where does it come from? What poor kids pissed in Heiress Betsy's corn flakes 50 years ago? She's been spending millions of her inherited wealth to press for a voucher system to take educational opportunity away from poor and middle-class people for years. And she admits that she bought her current gig with those expenditures.
Why? Why is she so desperate to hurt less fortunate kids (in her case that's pretty much all of them)? I guess you could ask that about all the appointees - and the Repubs in Congress. Why are they so passionate about hurting people?
At this point I just hope I never really get it. I'd hate to be cruel enough to even understand their cruelty.
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