Hawley blames higher ed for leftist ideology

[pstokely]

http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20180510/hawley-blames-higher-ed-for-leftist-ideology

"“Senator McCaskill has voted time and again to hand out millions and millions of your hard-earned money to these four-year colleges and institutions that take your money and then churn out increasingly worthless degrees with skills that nobody can use,” Hawley said. “Meanwhile, if you don’t have an expensive four-year degree in this country, you’re not treated with any respect.”

Colleges and universities should be responsible for repaying student loans of anyone who can’t find work in their field, Hawley said.

At a March Lincoln Day event in Gasconade County, Hawley said students are being miseducated by their schools.

“Our universities have taken billions of dollars in tax subsidies, your money, and they’ve taken billions more in middle class debt, your money, and they’re increasingly doing what?” Hawley said. “Giving students worthless degrees and indoctrinating them in far-left thinking. It’s time to put a stop to that.”
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[Achilleaze]

1. The New Millennium Know-Nothing Hate Party, Inc. (R)

republicans deserve to live in a moral and intellectual cesspool of their own devising. But no one else does.

[Matthew28]

2. These fuckers will

transform this nation into a third world shit hole if they're successful. Vote like your lives depend on it this November because it probably does.

[gordianot]

3. He needs to tear up his diplomas ASAP so he can legitimately rejoin the ranks of the ignorant.

[pstokely]

4. you can still be ignorant even with "expensive degrees"

he doesn't need to tear his up to join them

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Apparently So

Hawley is abject proof of your statement.

[Pholus]

5. So the degree is simultaneouly worthless and indispensible?

If Hawley had paid attention in school, he'd have learned to make an argument that was not totally incoherent and self-contradicting.

[Sherman A1]

6. Never confuse the issue

With the facts.

[ExciteBike66]

7. I don't understand, does Hawley have a degree?

If so, how did he avoid our indoctrination?

[pstokely]

8. he's got a Yale law degree

McCaskill only has a Mizzou law degree, where Hawley used to teach a few years ago

[oberliner]

9. Hawley went to Stanford and Yale

And was a teacher.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. If you really want a worthless degree get one in far-right thinking

The jobs were streamlined away with computerization and robots. No clerical workers needed, just push a button.

Finding a niche is difficult when there are no mass, standard, average jobs. Read up with "No Fear, No Excuses" - a book by a Univ of Waterloo economist who's nurtured college careers over 40 years. If you have no employable edge, you are a commodity. It's got nothing to do with ideology. If everyone were a computer scientist, mathematician, or marketing wiz it would make no difference - there would be no edge in skills and they'd (mostly) all be unemployed.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Guess this fool never has needed a doctor, nurse, lawyer, reseacher,

scientist, engineer, chemist, or computer.

[sharedvalues]

12. Here's the response: "SCIENCE professors are liberals"

85% of scientists are liberals, according to an AAAS poll.
That's because scientists are trained to judge facts for themselves and come to their own conclusions, and they can see through the GOP propaganda machine.

Universities are liberal because universities are filled with SMART PEOPLE. And GOP propaganda relies on fooling gullible people. Period

[SWBTATTReg]

13. Hawley is a joke...just recently too, he blamed the sexual revolution in the 60s for ...

sex trafficking! And other nonsense. He is purely a politics guy, in for show only, and not really for Missouri (he just got elected and here he is already running for the next job). Josh Hawley is also blaming the wrong people for their college cost woes.

And he's a hypocrite, using his degree to further his political agenda, and accusing the schools/colleges for far-left thinking (when in fact, this far-left thinking is just plain ol' using your head to figure out anything). How are the schools indoctrinating students? How?? If you're going to blame someone of something, prove it.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

15. Such a bunch of crap.

I was liberal even before I went to college. I went to school for engineering. My education had absolutely nothing to do with politics. It was all math and science.

There is no indoctrination in far left thinking happening. I bet there'd be no complaints from the conservatives if universities were institutions for far right indoctrination, though. That's what they want.

[Orsino]

16. Just another winger pushing for education cuts.

To fund, lemme guess, tax cuts for the wealthy?

[Stallion]

17. This Man Has a Dangerous Mind

Hawley who attended Stanford University for his undergraduate degree and Yale University for his law degree, is a former assistant professor of law at the University of Missouri and his wife, Erin Hawley, is currently an associate professor of law.

[modrepub]

18. If Universities are so bad

Why doesn't Hawley just avoid all college graduates in his life. Keep off the roads because they were designed by college educated engineers. No cars either for the same reason. When you get sick don't go to the doctor's office or be treated by any college educated health care givers. On and on.

Oh, might I add this little nugget. One of our former work colleagues recently passed away. A great fellow. In his obituary he said we was very thankful that he was able to attend college after WWII on the GI Bill for free. He noted that free education led to America's postwar boom by substantially increasing the number of college graduates in the workforce. His point is still valid in my opinion and to note this as a passing thanks in his own obituary is reflective of the type of person he was.

[spanone]

19. first i've heard of this asshole....hope it's the last.