Posted on 05/08/2015 9:31:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
It was also before they were taught what to think and to regurgitate socialist talking points.
There are still a handful of colleges and universities which still offer the old-fashioned Liberal Arts degree and has multiple job offers waiting for graduates. One of the better known ones is Hillsdale.
I agree with you as to Hillsdale. However as for liberal arts students I found that at UofC Berkeley after WWII these people were snobs. There were remarks scribbled on the toilet doors and walls in libraries with vulgarity about science students being out of touch with the real world. So much as to my admiration for liberal arts majors of the day.
I found the quote I read at Politico:
“His [Scott Walker] record on providing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants is also likely to come under scrutiny. In 2001, Walker, at the time a state assemblyman, voted for a budget bill that included a provision to grant in-state tuition costs at state colleges to undocumented immigrants who graduated from Wisconsin high schools, under specific residency circumstances.”
Walker also signed a resolution supporting the Bush-McCain Amnesty in 2006.
I'm glad Walker changed his mind since 2001 and 2006.
Problem is, every Republican running for president (except Jeb Bush) talks tough about immigration during the Primary season.
Then, in the general election, the tough talk disappears.
Then, after they lose the presidential election, they go right back to supporting Amnesty, like McCain and Romney.
As you will note from the dates in my post, once Walker had the authority to do something he did it, decisively. And that budget, which included the revoking of instate tuition for illegals, launched the siege on Madison.
Hardly your characterization of the facts and how it will play out in the future.
He was an elected assemblyman voting on the same budget in 2001.
He had the authority to vote “No” in 2001, but he voted “Yes.”
Why does his 2001 vote in favor of in-state tuition for illegals have less significance than his vote (or veto) against it in 2011?
I have also found more recent and more disturbing information.
There's a July 2013 You Tube video of Walker discussing the just passed Gang of Eight Amnesty.
He makes it very clear, less than two years ago, that he is completely in favor of massive legal immigration as long as the immigrants are “hard workers.”
Now, running for president, and needing Conservative support to win the Primary, he is suddenly concerned that massive legal immigration might have a negative impact on wages and job opportunities for home grown Americans.
In the same video, Walker also makes it clear that he supports future citizenship for illegals now in our country, provided there is some waiting period, and they don't get citizenship before people who applied legally.
Sorry - Walker's sudden conversion to an Immigration Hawk is becoming less and less believable.
You remind me of someone whistling past the graveyard, since you’re blatantly opposition posting for another candidate.
Anything that is going up faster than medical costs is definitely out of control and that is deliberate UNDERstatement.
“liberal arts is the most insane education on this planet.”
Liberal arts is actually what education USED to be about. There is no REAL liberal arts education now, just pretend and that is why Johnny has a degree but can’t use there, their and they’re correctly. I have actually seen all three used INCORRECTLY in the space of one or two sentences. Most recent degree recipients could not pass the eighth grade final in history, literature, language or geography from sixty years ago. I have seen recent reports saying that the skill that is really most in demand and the one that is hardest to find now is the ability to communicate. I find that fairly easy to believe. Many multiple choice tests now have questions with four possible answers and the REAL correct answer is not even given as a choice.
This is also why there is a push for a higher minimum wage. It is price inflationary and the government is desperate to get inflation going again to monetize the debt. Not too fast, of course, but it is built in to their projections as much as annual raises are built into a family’s budget.
Deflation is really hurting governments all over the world. It is the equivalent of the breadwinner of the family getting a cut in pay.
Which candidate might that be?
Ted Cruz supporters despise me because I have posted multiple links showing that Cruz also used to support massive legal immigration, massive increases in work visas, and 12 million work permits for illegal immigrants.
Immigration - both legal and illegal - is my number one issue.
It is an existential political threat to American Conservatism.
Since the Reagan Amnesty in 1986 the Democrat Party has imported 20 million new Socialist voters, which makes it almost mathematically impossible for a Conservative Republican to be elected president.
The Democrats, with enthusiastic support from the GOP, plan to import another 20 million Socialist voters in the next decade, and Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, and you, have no serious plan to stop them.
And you accuse ME of whistling past the graveyard?
You’ve decided to be contrary - a pox on all their houses.
That’s your choice.
I see Walker pursuing it to help the nation.
You choose to believe he won’t, despite what he says.
That’s your choice.
Why don’t you tell us what your platform would be if you ran.
And then convince me that you will follow through, despite the fact that I know nothing at all about you.
For the last 10 years, I've been one of the most prolific and most outspoken Immigration Hawks at Free Republic.
In thousands of posts and comments my position has never varied, and every word is archived.
My platform?
Unlimited work visas and citizenship for any individuals (not families) who earn more than $250,000 a year in the USA for three consecutive years.
Everyone else - stay home and vote Socialist in your own country.
Illegal immigrants - stop their welfare and ER health care and sue their employers. The illegals will self-deport.
And, just so you know, I voted for and donated to every Republican presidential nominee since Richard Nixon in 1972. And I donated to Nixon and Goldwater before I was old enough to vote.
Re: "You’ve decided to be contrary - a pox on all their houses."
The only pox I'm worried about is the Left Wing fever that has infected tens of millions of Republicans every year since Teddy Roosevelt became president in 1901.
I stopped reading at “Walker’s vicious...”
Thank you for your reply.
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