Check out Bowers’ gush piece over Ralph Smeed in the Idaho Press-Tribune.
If Mr. “Buy Gold” Bowers ever wants to know why he lost his primary challenge last year, he really only needs to look into the mirror — rhetoric that isn’t becoming of a bratty 16-year-old really isn’t becoming of an Idaho Representative.
That, and it is pretty apparent that he is still harboring issues of insufficiencies that he feels the need to blame on the dirty hippies that occupy the grounds of College of Idaho.
Funny thing about conservatives like Bowers — one of the great myths they have helped propagate is the idea that state-run colleges and universities are somehow indoctrinating young students and making them liberal. In fact, quite the opposite has occurred in the last twenty of so years. Colleges churn out something like triple the number of business majors they did in the 80's and the glut of MBA programs that are offered speak for themselves. If anything, the nation's university system has become a factory model for corporate drones. I think the current events of the stock market and related bubbles speak for themselves.
I agree with him on one thing: people need to think. What he really finds frustrating is that when people do, they reach very different conclusions from his own.
Hahahaha! Being a business major doesn't make you a conservative or a corporate drone. Likely people focus on business majors becasue they have come to see the success that comes from undrstanding businees models, marketing, finanance/accounting, HR, IT and all the other neccesary skills needed to run a successful business.
Hahahaha! Being a business major doesn't make you a conservative or a corporate drone. Likely people focus on business majors becasue they have come to see the success that comes from undrstanding businees models, marketing, finanance/accounting, HR, IT and all the other neccesary skills needed to run a successful business.
Oh, you mean all those unsustainable models that aren't based on reality? Laugh all you want, but I'm sure most of those with business degrees have conservative political views and make up the bulk of the so-called "libertarian" movement that has become popular in the past few months.
Hahahaha! Is there a sustainable model that is based on reality? You make it sound like knowning how to run a business is a bad thing. The "so-called" libertarian movement has been popular for more than a few months or their candidates wouldn't have been on ballots for the past several elections. Clearly you don't have experience running a business or you would understand the frustrations business owners have. Oh yeah, most of my fellow business majors that I keep in touch with voted for Obama…
There's nothing wrong with knowing how to run a business successfully. Sadly, there's an entire generation that doesn't seem to know how to do it — if they did, there wouldn't be acres of empty retail space and corporate parks everywhere you look.
But I digress, because you missed the original point (big surprise): Kooks like Bowers think that state-run schools are cranking out legions of hippie socialists. Clearly he is out of touch with the facts concerning where most institutions are putting their time and focus.
Oddly I think you both make some good points. Using college degrees to predict political leanings probably leads to some rather broad generalizations. Also didn't Obama receive a rather large portion of the vote from college educated individuals? I would imagine more than a few of those people have a business degree.
On the other hand I certainly see a connection between the increase in business majors and MBA programs because of the things like the real estate boom and events that lead up to the our current financial meltdown. People wanted in on making lots o money and probably saw a business degree as a way to do that. Now that the house of cards has collapsed I would imagine there will be a bit of decrease in business majors/MBA programs and maybe/hopefully a greater emphasis on business ethics in existing programs.
Sorry, to your orignal point: I agree with Kooks like bowers, I think people who have had the opportunity of higher education have some liberal leanings. I also think that is a good thing. I mean more tolerance and less ignorance is good, right?
This is nothing more than anti-Intellectualism. Hate the Colleges, hate the graduates, hate the intellectuals for their "liberal" ideas. Bowers and Smeed are two little peas in a pod, disliking those that are smarter than they are and so they strike out like the hateful little bullies they are. Smeed's sign is nothing more than an embarrassment to Idaho.