CrusaderFrank
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For all you wannabe 'conservatives', read what a real one has to say.
We are witnessing the social and economic evisceration of the working class, said Rich Lowery (National Review Online). In recent decades, the gap between Americans who complete college and those who dont has become a chasm ---- economically and socially. Generally speaking, the third of Americans with college degrees ---- the so called elites ---- enjoy rising incomes and low unemployment, and theyve embraced traditional values and stable families. But among those without a high school degree, the picture is grim: Unemployment has surpassed 15%, and todays blue-collar workers often earn less than their fathers did.
Worse, this economic pressure makes it harder to marry, and family stability in middle America is crumbling. Even among the moderately educated ---- those with a high school diploma or even some college ---- out of wedlock births have exploded from 13% in 1982. to 44% today. In effect, the creation of a stable family ---- an institution absolutely critical to childrens prospects ---- is increasingly tied to a college education. There is a crisis in the middle, and the brain dead populism of blaming the elites wont save the struggling working classes.
Rich Lowry is editor of National Review. A reprise in The Week, 16 Dec 2010, of an article. mobile.theweek.com/article/search?ext=html&url.
Yes, the Federal Department of "Education" needs to be burned to the ground because we graduate idiots at an alarming rate and that's what keeps Dems in power
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Surely you know that intelligence and level of formal education are both inversely related to the propensity toward voting Republican... Right?
Surely you realize that government Stimulus and Central Planning of the economy is as big a fail today as it was when Hoover and FDR did it, right?