The World is Run by Idiots

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I once worked in the Michigan legislature. The first thing I learned when I went there was that the little protective halo that I had, the idea that someone somewhere actually knew what was going on, was a false halo and false assumption on my part. Let me examine a couple of ideas in Governor Granholm’s speech last night.

First, she wants to amend the constitution in order to borrow $2 billion from our children to invest in research. She says that she’ll create 72,000 jobs by investing the $2,000,000,000. So the state will be paying approximately $54,000 per job after finance costs. All this proposal does is create a welfare program for college grads. And the best part? Our children and grandchildren get to pay for jobs long since gone with the wind.

Second, the Governor is perpetuating the myth that the major impediment to college is financial. I know absolutely destitute, poverty stricken people who are able to go to college (through grants and loans). I know of single mothers who are able to attend. When I was at the University of Michigan getting my MBA (which I paid every single dollar of), there was a single mom in the program. She ended up dropping out. Not for financial reasons mind you. By her own account, she would stay up all not instant messaging on AOL and therefore not get her work done. The problem has to do with what is inside of people not how much money they have, and $1,500 more for college isn’t going to make a difference.

Third, she wants to quick train people in various professions which have a high demand right now. Now, I can tell you that I really don’t want the unemployed person who can’t hold down a job at Burger King working an IV into my arm at the hospital. It is a generalization I know, but she generalized as well. In general, the unemployed right now are unemployed for a reason. And its not because their so clever. So, the Governor is going to make them nurses and construction workers. They have been unfaithful with a little so she’s going to make them ruler over much (pardon the Biblical allusion).

It is amazing how clever they think they are, but most of these politician are second rate, half-wits at best.

Well, that’s my first “political” rant on this blog. It was a long time coming, and I’ll try not to bore you again with one for a long time. It’s just that when someone starts picking my pocket, especially for hair-brained schemes, I get a little agitated.