Quotable Quote

Colleges and universities have stopped teaching us how to think. They are now teaching our children what to think. — Jeanette Potts

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

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President Trump defends Roger Stone commutation — blasts Dem witchhunt

Seattle City Council backs call to defund police by 50%

New documents show internal debate on whether to prosecute Flynn

5G accelerating factory automation which could add trillions to global economy

President Trump asks Treasury to examine tax-exempt status of universities

Poll: Trump and Biden tied

Trump discounts chances of new China trade deal

Coronavirus deaths tick up in Florida, Texas, California, Arizona

President Trump confirms he greenlit US cyberattack against Russia in 2018

Trump promises citizenship to DACA illegal aliens

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Job growth declined in June

U.S. trade deficit falls to smallest since before 2016 election

Trump offers Warren $1M to prove 'native heritage'

25% of private universities running deficit

Wall Street titans fail to explain Trump to China

Facebook co-founder: Tax the rich at 50% to give $500-per-month free cash to fix income inequality

Poll: Immigration top issue for voters ...

Update: Trump says new NFL anthem policy 'worse' than kneeling

K street staffs up for a Democrat takeover

Trump wants bilateral UK trade deal 'as soon as possible, ' US ambassador

Dog cloned -- 49 times!

Hungary trolls Macron by awarding fired French ambassador state honour

The Worm Turns

"This will bend the medical cost curve down." -- President Obummer

There is a famous apocryphal quote that says, "A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged." Well now we are discovering another population who may be rethinking their politics -- university information professionals in California. Apparently the high (and rapidly rising) cost of Obamacare for this gaggle of Golden State IT workers is forcing layoffs there ... ironically to be replaced by immigrant h-1b workers, mainly from India. These cost savings for those higher educational institutions allows them to keep their heads above the rising fiscal waters, at least for a while ... see: Breitbart Article.

It is not difficult to forecast the results of these employment dislocations ... more Trump votes among these formally liberal Californian ITers. This layoff trend may even metastasize to professors and university instructors ... then these uber-liberal pedagogues would also be forced to rethink their politics and their classroom messages. Then the worm might finally turn.

The Professors Are Winning

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The drip, drip, drip of liberal teaching in our colleges and universities is finally winning out. In a recent survey 43% of millennials view socialism more favorably than capitalism (with under 33% favorable) ... see: Breitbart Article. Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary ... where country after country which has gone down the Bernie Sanders path ... most recently Venezuela ... have ended up economic hellholes, our capitalist-spoiled children would throw it all away for that nirvana of "to each according to his need, from each according to his ability."

In a way you can't fault these tyro thinkers. They believe that they are being idealistic ... and that is good ... but they have no clue as to the consequences of this misguided idealism. Their preaching professors have lived in the cocoon of capitalist largess all their adult lives and the current leader of the Catholic church says that capitalism is "the spawn of the devil." while enjoying the lush luxury created by capitalism. Yes, capitalism is based on economic self interest which is easily misrepresented as greed. But it is the striving for wealth through innovative thought and action that has created our societies of wealth unimagined in the Middle Ages ... a period of widespread repressive poverty to which our current breed of Socialist professors and politicians would have us return.

Yet it would be foolish to aver that greed never is bred under capitalism ... witness Martin Shkreli of Turing Pharmaceuticals whose price gouging has jeopardized his company ... and made him a social pariah. Adam Smith pointed out that the invisible hand of capitalism tends to punish such avaricious entrepreneurs. So when greed exists within capitalism, it tends to be self-defeating. However, unfortunately inequities have also crept into the American tax system and, due to its huge complexity, this system has often become regressive. This needs to be corrected ... but not to a Bernie Sanders degree which would snuff out capitalism alltogether (his intent?) And, if our idealistic youths don't understand that equivalent greed also exists within government, their professors have been criminally derelict.

No wonder both Hellery and Bernie, using free tuition, want to make our public citadels of lower learning even more extensive propaganda factories. That way they can guarantee a steady supply of mind-numbed youthful supplicants.

To conclude, please remember that envy (as well as greed) is also one of the seven deadly sins.