Schooling, and Education....not even similar.

I heard something on the radio that, and I am not kidding, caused me to pull over to the side of the road and say a prayer for our nation.  And before I move forward, I want to state a position here…..there is a vast difference, A VAST DIFFERENCE between having an education, and being educated.

So, with that in mind.  This woman calls in to the radio station, and goes ALL IN for socialism (making it clear that she was a “democratic socialist”, not just the kind of socialist that has failed world wide) when it comes to paying college expenses for those in college, and paying off the debt for those who have graduated.

And yes, she was a feminist studies major.  She is NOT going to get a job that is going to pay SHIT.  She has a “major” in a field that NOBODY gives a shit about.  My guess is that she knows that she is incompetent, can not function in a real world.

When I was 30, I had a BA in history education, because I wanted to teach high school history.  I had an MS in political science because I wanted to work in the US embassy in Bonn.  My father in law asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I said I wanted something on the history of the Church.  For my birthday I got the six volume “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon.  I took me an entire year to read that masterpiece, and it inspired me to read EVERYTHING I could get my hands onto. It inspired me to go to the classic spots in the world (Rome, Trier, Berlin, Paris, Buda Pest, Prague,  and a host of place names that most people cannot even pronounce).  My point to this is the acknowledgement that my EDUCATION did not start until after I left the hallowed halls of higher education.  And I paid the money for my degrees.  Nobody else, certainly not the taxpayer, paid for anything.

In making her argument that we the people should be responsible for paying for college, she (the caller) NEGATED her own argument.  Why should I, you, or anyone pay for school for ANYONE that does not contribute to her “education”.  Her position was that BECAUSE she went to college, she was therefore educated, and therefore an asset to society, because everything she got from college was a benefit to society.

And we should all realize that the is wrong.

But by God…..she has an education…..and is completely uneducated.

I have an HVAC guy who I KNOW didn’t go to college, I have a plumber, who plumbs magnificently, but I know he went to trade school and it didn’t cost me crap (he cost me plenty now).  The callers’ contention that she is of value to society and that therefore her degree should be paid for by taxpayers, simply because she went to college, is ludicrous; it implies that the is educated because she went to school……and that notion is ridiculous.

Now…..all of this said…I am fully cognizant that my time in college makes me of ZERO value to anyone, or society; if I AM of value, that value has nothing to do with an institutional process. IF the government deems that we as a nation need DNA scientists, then we as a nation, should pay…..but we should never pay for your choices.  Great, you went to college to understand under water basket weaving…..I do not give a shit and am definitely not willing to pay for it.

I understand that I was all over the place in this rant……but I feel strongly, if somewhat disorganized, on this issue.  This is America….I STRONGLY believe that if you want to go to school to be a blight on society…..then you should do it…and I disagree that I should pay for it.

One last thing…..what we know as the Guaranteed Student Loan program was started by a democrat President and re-organized by a later democrat President.  The system is corrupt and allows colleges, that provide no value, to charge out of the ying-yang for PE class.  As usual the democrats developed a system that works against the nation, and their solution for their own incompetence, is to make it worse on all of us.  As you dwell on this, on this idea that we OWE college students for their value, and the move to make the government pay for it with our own money......just wait until the government provides the same philosophy to paying off mortgages.

That is all.

Streisand's Brain has left the building.

The modern victim of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), must posses a few traits.  One is a divorcing of facts from reality, coupled with a refusal to acknowledge the former.  Another is a willingness to lie, either by omission or commission.  And  a final one is just no knowing generally what he or she is talking about.

Enter that  horrific “has been” Barbara Streisand. 

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/barbra-streisand-trump-breathtaking-ignorance-op-ed

I want to dissect her spew, bit by bit…..so let’s get jiggy with it.

Barbra Streisand wrote a scathing opinion column in which she took shots at Donald Trump’s record as president as well as his Republican colleagues in the Senate ahead of Super Tuesday.  What is her beef?  More freedom from regulations, less taxes, better trade deals, peace efforts with our enemies?  What EXACTLY is it that Trump has done wrong in Streisands’ mind?  I suspect that, if pressed to identify a single point, Streisand would show more of her failures and less of Trumps.

“No wonder doctors report that more people than ever are anxious and depressed. Since 2016, we’ve been dragged down into the mud of Trump’s swamp,” she wrote. “He has demolished our standing in the world with his laughable boasts and breathtaking ignorance. He has put the security of this country, and our planet, in a precarious position by abandoning the Paris climate accord and the Iran nuclear deal. He’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction … so reckless that he almost started a war.”  Wow….where to start?  What mud of Trumps swamp…..showing the corruption of the left?  I can understand Streisands apprehension of THAT coming to light.  Breathtaking ignorance?  The Babs’ own rant shows her as the pot calling the kettle black.  How has he put our security at risk?  Attempts at border control, which Streisands’ people object too, while blaming Trump for the spread of Corona virus?  Abandoning the Paris Climate Accords, a custom made money grab by other nations for US money?  Abandoning the deal with Iran where we actually paid them to build a bomb for use against Israel (Isn’t Babs a Jew?).  What war did he almost start?  Is she thinking about the right President?  Is she thinking?

She went on to criticize the president for his handling of the coronavirus, noting that he “got rid of our pandemic specialist two years ago and has defunded the Centers for Disease Control.”  This is a lie that the left will not let die.  Refuted by the director of the CDC himself, on camera.  Most egregious is her repeating the lie that Trump defunded the CDC when the director himself thanked him for INCREASING funding.

I am going to stop here because I have to go to bed and a real job tomorrow.  But this is the sort of brain surgeon that the left is producing.  Streisand has nothing but propaganda, no examples, and a lot of bullshit.

Sad to think that she is one of the lefts elite.  Maybe the same number of people will listen to her opinion…..as still listen to her music.

What a dolt.

And the fix is in....again.

In the last 96 hours, THREE candidates for the leftist  candidacy for President have withdrawn from the competition, and ALL of them have pledged their support for Joe Biden.  Today, one of the most deceitful democrats to ever walk the earth, Harry Reid, announced his support for Biden......a day ahead of Super Tuesday.  I do not know how much money changed hands, but we are foolish if we don't believe the fix is in. 

What you are seeing, and have been seeing for the past few months, since the democrats chose to advertise their dysfunctionality on the TV screen, in the debates, is that the left preaches a good game, but what they really want is the power.  Their platform consists of re-gaining, and maintaining power.  Their sole platform plank is to defeat President Trump, maintain the house and re-gain the senate, and the leftist elite know that they cannot do that with Bernie as a candidate.  The left cannot succeed in what they want, as long as Bernie is out there exposing what they want.

 Additionally.....exactly how corrupt are you, as a party, when you would throw your weight behind a poster child for Alzheimers, who will destroy your party, to prevent a poster child for communism, who will destroy your party?

Don't answer that.

The democrats