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2016-11-13 Home Front: Politix

Washington Times' Wes Pruden: Drowning the elites in the gene pool

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-11-13 02:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The comments are filled with sneering elitists who, even after Trump, still don't get it. It's really sad.

Posted by Thumper Dribble5791 2016-11-13 03:44|| 2016-11-13 03:44|| Front Page Top

#2 I needed a degree for OCS.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2016-11-13 06:18|| 2016-11-13 06:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Evolution don't need no diploma. Man up, woosie babys.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-11-13 06:34|| 2016-11-13 06:34|| Front Page Top

#4 I needed a degree for OCS.

Things must have changed. A few college hours were the only general requirement back in the old days which could be picked up at most installations after hours. However, back then, unlike today you didn't need a college education to be a senior NCO. It became a discriminator when I was retiring. Just doesn't make sense to have a senior NCO with a college degree and 18 years of experience under a new shave tail 2LT with a college degree and zip experience. The institution doesn't want to address that fundamental contradiction.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-11-13 08:18|| 2016-11-13 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Just doesn't make sense to have a senior NCO with a college degree and 18 years of experience under a new shave tail 2LT with a college degree and zip experience

It's part of the job of the Navy Chief to 'edumacate', sometimes bluntly, the young Ensign. That's the difference between them and the NCO. And I, for one, appreciated it.

Posted by Pappy 2016-11-13 09:04|| 2016-11-13 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 The problem I found was some shave-tail LT's felt they couldn't learn anything from a non-officer.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-11-13 09:20|| 2016-11-13 09:20|| Front Page Top

#7 When I hire people I don't look for education, I look for the capability to learn.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2016-11-13 13:41|| 2016-11-13 13:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Your post gets a thumbs up.

Posted by Glaviter Black5680 2016-11-13 15:54|| 2016-11-13 15:54|| Front Page Top

#9 The exit polls were wrong -- most of those who voted for Mr. Trump declined to be interviewed for the same reasons thwt they declined to be polled. An Nahar has some statistics:

Here is a look at who voted for whom in the biggest political upset in American politics for generations:

- Middle Class and Educated -

Half of Americans who are considered middle class, making $100,000 a year or more, voted for the 70-year-old billionaire according to USA Today's exit polls.

Forty-three percent of people with college degrees backed the Republican, although post-graduates voted overwhelmingly for Clinton, the Democrat, at 58 percent to 35 percent.

"We wanted to send a message that there's too much government ruling our life and that had to stop," said Rolando Chumaceiro, a family doctor who lives in affluent White Plains, New York.

Lower income voters leaned towards Clinton but their support had eroded since President Barack Obama's election in 2012, perhaps fueled in part by resentment of the high costs associated with Obamacare.

More about women and minorites at the link, for those interested.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-11-13 21:56|| 2016-11-13 21:56|| Front Page Top

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