The straight dope is that We the People are too stupid to educate ourselves in this or that. Therefore our viewpoints are cult-like and we’re “Economic Creationists”. Oh and good job describing Americans as being lazier and stupider than immigrants.
A bunch of fucking WHINING. This is the kind of shit you do when your argument is not just being rejected by a few annoying members of a message board, but by increasing populations across the COUNTRY. Instead of learning how to make a better and more coherent, credible case, weaklings like this blame the country for not buying their rancid bullshit.
Go ahead and keep thinking we’re too stupid. The problem is all of us ignorant Americans; it can’t possibly be that your argument has zero credibility and the more you push it into the light of day, the fewer people believe it. Nah, couldn’t be that. Could it?
Am I the only one who thinks it’s hilarious that a Doper who chose a French user name is insulted by the notion that some Americans are stupid? :dubious:
This is a curious thread. It’s usually the lefties insisting that studies show people are poorly educated in general and that this needs to be fixed, while righties insist that every pure-bred American is a well-informed, reasonable, rational individual.
Poor education is bad enough by itself, but it renders our fellow citizens more vulnerable to lies. Lacking cognitive skills, they are more likely to emotional decisions, voting for the guy who wraps himself in patriotic bunting and blubbers about how much he loves his country, and why that love of his country compels him to hate so many of its citizens.
Wasn’t John being ironic in that post? He was responded to someone who said we need government programs to direct people towards technical degrees. John apparently felt these programs aren’t needed because people with technical degrees earn good money so people are already pursuing them.
I’m glad i’m not the only one who thought that; i was beginning to think i was crazy or something. It’s not quite clear to me exactly what this the OP is aiming at, or whether s/he quite grasped what John Mace was saying in his post.
Unlikely - but if he was, he is totally clueless about all the whining that companies do about there being a lack of tech talent. You hear it every time you hear about H1Bs for crying out loud. John Mace couldn’t possibly be trying to get that one by the readers… could he? He wouldn’t be claiming that there’s enough people pursuing tech degrees in the face of the fact that DARPA said as recently as 2010 that there has been a significant decline in the number of grads in science, technology, engineering and mathematics… would he?
