He's always thirsty. You can't have a president who can't go without water for 30 minutes.
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He's always thirsty. You can't have a president who can't go without water for 30 minutes.
Well, over the past decade and a half or so, how much of the GOP position is apt to seem reasonable to someone who is educated, and capable of critical thinking? And, how many of their base voters don't have higher education, and are generally spiteful of it? Cutting education would seem a good idea for them, would it not?
Never mind that this is undercutting the development of intellectual capital for the future.
No, no, no- that's Arthur Curry.
I wonder if it is short-sightedness on their part, or if they're using it as a way to reinforce having a permanent underclass, fit only to work part time jobs in their factories?
Given that, long-term, their factories won't be there without the intellectual capital to keep them on the front of the markets? I classify it as shortsightedness.
Ah, yes, but they also know they can hire brainpower from other countries to keep those businesses competitive, possibly more cheaply than supporting an education system to grow it at home. Meanwhile that is simultaneously keeping a large pool of undereducated workers fit only for the low-pay jobs...for which there will be a buyer's market for labor, further suppressing wages.
Too Machiavellian?
Too Machiavellian?
No. Just not practical or economical. There are still underdeveloped portions of the world that don't have, say, OSHA regulations, or minimum wages over $5, that they could use for factory jobs, if they wanted. Working to de-educate the USA so it can be a source of cheap labor is kind of tin-foil-hat time. Especially when so much of the manufacturing isn't done here any more anyway.
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Not to mention counter productive. You need a place to market what you make and if you reduce your primary market to a bunch of Epsilons, you have very few people to which you can sell.
So you are doubtful of the rise of the plutocratical brave new world? 
I may have been too generous with my 1-2 month estimate- Trump continues to shoot himself in the foot...while he's got it in his mouth. He first retweeted, then deleted a nice bit of race baiting the other day:
http://www.businessinsider.com/dona...fortunate-retweet-about-jeb-bushs-wife-2015-7
Wonder if any of the other GOP candidates will say something more forceful than they have to date.
http://www.businessinsider.com/dona...fortunate-retweet-about-jeb-bushs-wife-2015-7
Wonder if any of the other GOP candidates will say something more forceful than they have to date.
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