The Penalty for Intelligence

Few things in life give me as much satisfaction as watching progressives and social engineers being hoisted by their own petards. This is the inevitable result of affirmative action: reverse discrimination.

The ironic end to all of the Leftist crusades for social justice and misguided attempts to soothe their carefully nursed guilt complexes is the near-complete destruction of our education system, both at the secondary and collegiate levels. Their insistence that stupid people be admitted to universities because they're some favored shade of brown, and that bright people be denied entry because all of the seats are filled by or reserved for the stupid brown people, has devalued college degrees to the point that they are no longer a primary hiring consideration in many sectors of American business -- especially industry, manufacturing and technology.

Such businesses are profit-driven, and that requires bright, self-motivated employees. Their recent experiences with the products of entitlement-driven scholarship programs have made them very mistrustful of degreed individuals, favoring instead industry experience, native intelligence, and a proven work ethic at a lower-tiered job, especially "hands-on" jobs. If someone is willing to get their hands dirty, they're probably not going to disappoint when you put them in an office and ask them to effectively manage dozens of people with dirty hands.

It has become popular among media pundits over the last few months to opine that the country desperately needs a President who does not possess a college degree, but who does possess a track record of career successes. A blue collar man who became white collar through the sweat of his own brow. I couldn't agree more, because those are the people who built the country in the first place.

Once again, I'll just leave this right here... in case you neglected to read it the first few times I linked to it.