Tue, 13 December 2005 In this episode Bob and Mark comment on the recent Delphi bankruptcy filing, the neverending push for national healthcare, and the damage wrought by the idea that higher education is the best meal ticket. With all the abuse of hippies you've come to love. Show Notes Paul Krugman OpEd Screw shooters are a dime a dozen The economy is dynamic National Healthcare will not fix the automakers problems Outsourcing overseas leads to increased jobs at home Recommended reading on economics Nationalized Healthcare has not gone away Free healthcare is not really free There is no healthcare crisis Hippies just don't want to pay for medical insurance Mark:"You're never going to get anything out of the government that you couldn't provide better yourself" TANSTAAFL More book recommendations THK put forth a modest proposal to solve the healthcare crisis Commercial Break OpEd "Colleges can't expect K-12 to do it all" The Ohio Board of Regents study of Ohio's incoming freshman Most people shouldn't go to college Our education problems are the result of pushing uneducable students through the system Graduation or enrollment quotas can only lower standards It's not the job of higher education to bring students up to a high school graduate level "Student Anti-Intellectualism and the Dumbing Down of the University" Let's lower the bar until x number of people meet the standard There are some states that are pushing to end remedial education at Univeristies The hippies have turned education into vocational training A higher education is about developing higher reasoning skills 60% of Ohio's high school graduates go onto college, that's insane Walter William's Oped "Today's College Students and Yesteryear's High School Grads: A Comparison of General Cultural Knowledge" Hippies have perverted what an education is supposed to be in order to further their political agenda Links for further interest Delphi George Will column John Jordan column (he's pro Union) James P. Hoffa column This link will take you to a site that has some details about the ongoing movement for National Healthcare This is the text of the Oregon initiative that went down in defeat in 2002 Bibliograhy Economics in One Easy Lesson, Henry Hazlitt Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell In Defense of Global Capitalism, Johan Norberg The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein Comments[1] |
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