Posted on 05/19/2013 6:23:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A self-serving, egotistic controlling meddlesome billionaire telling the people he’s sworn to help educate and live their lives to the fullest tells them to “f@ck college” and become a plumber....imagine that.
Nah - just get a job working for the government
He’s actually at least partially right for once.
Our colleges are full of students who don’t belong there and only provide the raw materials of marxist indoctrination while hindering the best and brightest.
Welder/Pipe Fitter/Mechanic non union $80,000 a year...screw college
Yup. We need more trade schools and apprenticeship programs.
Is he nuts? Much more money in drugs...
Absolutely...But of course...that means work and ethics and honesty and .....
He is right.
ROFLMAO!
Hubby's a plumber Mr. Bloombutt, and I've seen him calculate fall and do volume/mass calculations without even using so much as piece of paper! Can YOU do calculus equations in YOUR head, Mr. Mayor?
-----
What IS it about these liberal, elitist pricks that think jobs requiring manual labor are somehow of lesser value and the people that do them must be correspondingly of lesser intelligence??
ARGH! It just makes me want to smack them so hard their grand-kids will have bumps!
If the kid is smart, he or she should simply use college as a high-end trade school. My son graduated last year as a civil engineer. He already makes more than my wife and I combined. Plus, on his own, he now reads all the literary “classics” he missed in college — without the disadvantage of a left-wing, America-hating grad student interpreting the classics for him.
After all - there are only a limited number of mayoral jobs for arrogant Nanny State politicians.
Now, he says it. Like the liberal arts folks, gotta chance in the trades. I’d love to see Bloomie, bend an elbow, breakin’ a wrench. Yeah, right.
Yep, family’s done pretty good being gear heads. My youngest son was hired right out of welding school.
Young craftsman are hard to find.
I think Bloomberg is an *ss, but I completely agree w/ you on this. College has been opened to people who have no business going there. Not to mention that they will have a much better chance of finding a job w/ a technical skill.
Sorry, but ever since PC invaded the country everyone is going to college. Frankly w/ my grades I probably should not have gone, but I came from a college educated family & it was a given that I would go.
So this sawed-off kcirp levels with them and lets them know being a tradesman is a job for a dolt... I’m surprised he didn’t warn them against the military like Lurch did.
You are absolutely correct, and he showcases the problem with his own comment. “..graduates who arent rocket scientists..”. One of the reasons why so many avoided trades and skilled labor types of jobs is because people like Bloomberg perpetuated the conception that these jobs were for those who couldn't do much else. That's incredibly insulting, and totally inaccurate. What he should have said is ‘if you can't excel at other things, academic or otherwise, you can always become a politician - where the bar is a lot lower’.
I'd bet that most American college students would flunk out of a German or Swiss vocational school.
What an insufferable snobbish dolt. It takes intelligence, technical skill and practical sense to be a tradesman...way more than some useless educated idiot.
Isn't that what we all want for our kids? (rhetorical).
I have 4 adult children and two minor children....so far, so good.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.