Posted on 07/14/2009 6:48:30 AM PDT by steve-b
Uh, not all scientists who are conservative are creationists, I know I am not. Most scientists are employed by general industry, so that kind of shoots your grants from the government thing. The fact is that "Political Correctness" meant enforcing more than just word games, it meant enforcing what it promised "Liberals Only" in the Academic club, and thus they teach the students who are then the leaders of tomorrow while the conservatives happily pay the taxes to support the universities being turned into re-education camps.
A good article on this is found at the Christian Science Monitor right now Nearly all my professors are Democrats. Isn't that a problem?
Come to new york city. WE are full of young, highly taxed professionals who are insipid leftists.
So my firm, which is broadly involved in the tech/internet space has decided that it will avoid hiring Millenials at all costs. Unless they were home schooled, or are foreign-born. We actually have hired two 50-something "dinosaur" COBOL programmers who we taught SQL Server and database schema design to. And guess what? They have both become masters of the trade. Flawless database design. and they are self-teaching. they learn new skills as needed without complaint, or special handling or training required by the Millenials we've hired (and fired or lost) in the past. And these guys are loyal. They are old school engineers who want to work with others in the office to improve processes and make them more efficient. I never expected this from them, but it is typical of their generations. With the Millenials you were lucky to get good performance out of their narrow sphere of responsiblity. Having them think of others or the well-being of the company is a fantasy. they are selfish and care only about themselves.
I know I am painting with a broad brush here. Many of you may tell me about your Millenial child who isnt like this. but i am not alone. Read this piece from the WSJ to see how much so...
This should tell you something about Ron Paul. The "kids" who were impressed with Paul mainly only liked him because he was against the Iraq war.
The article seems to be based on the idea that “millenials” will remain forever as stupid as they are right now. One would hope that a few years experience would teach people a few things about how the world really works.
Er, why should they have "loyalty" to you if someone makes them a better offer? The workplace is for making a living; it's not your family. There's no reason employees shouldn't seek the best deal for themselves, just like any rational person does.
Would that it were true. Alas, too many engineers have been sucked in to the toeing the "party line" this is what group think does.
But, not so long ago, and for many years I believed in CO2 as a cause of Global Warming. It wasn't until I started reading about the realities of the Sun being primarily responsible for our Climate that only have become available recently, that I switched. I was shocked when so many scientists continued to cling to bad theory but this was just when Al Gore was doing his thing. Since then, it hasn't been a question of science but a question of belief and politics that has sustained this Hoax long after it should have gone the way of the Piltdown Man.
Anyway, I refer you to another link at FR Survey Shows Gap Between Scientists and the Public
That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about them leaving TWO WEEKS after training. We paid to train 2 Millenials for absolutely nothing. And we heard one of them did the same thing to the next employer and now works for MassPIRG, a left-wing agitator group. She left with no notice to go to the Obama inuagural and never came back. He was left in the lurch 2 days before a huge presentation. She probably couldn't care less. Some of these Millenials are malignant narcissists and outright sociopaths.
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Groupthink.
The Trustafarian Hipsters in Williamsburg are even worse.
I doubt that a majority of these youngsters even knows what a free market is.
Ask these youngsters the same questions in a few months, when Obama’s destruction of the US economy is complete and civilization as we know it has collapsed into a dark age existence.
That will change over the next few years when many hve to drop out because Mom and Dad are unemployed now and can’t pay their tution. They can’t find jobs upon graduation and start to put two and teo together. It happened to alot of the wide eyed liberals in 1980 when they voted for Reagan.
Now you know how I feel being called a boomer! I am in my 40’s and boomers are in their 60’s!
“Parents are not paying attention, and the GOP doesnt bother to educate Americans about the downside of statism, in part, because many, if not most, of them are statists themselves.”
I’m paying attention. I have three boys, the oldest of whom is 10, and they know what’s right.
They know that government is bad. More government is worse.
Yes, well, we’re the exception here at FR, I’d hope. :-)
My kids are homeschooled, and are learning about real American history.
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