[driftless2]

The situation is this country is similar to what the commies did in Russia when they took over. The Bolsheviks assumed all jobs, no matter the difficulty, could be run by anyone. So when they took over, they fired a lot of bourgeois professionals and gave their jobs to loyal party members. It very soon became apparent that most of the party members didn't have a clue about how to run things that required professional training. The commies had to swallow their pride and give most of the jobs back to the bourgeois people who had been running them proficiently.

And like the commies of old, today's lefties think the same thing...entrance to good colleges is just a matter of money or who knows whom. They are oblivious to the fact that most minorities aren't in upper level colleges because they simply can't do the work. Never mind...stick them in anyway. And when they fail, scream racism.

[Steely Tom]

I visited China in 2001, the guest of a business acquaintance. He took me to a factory he owned; it occupied one floor of a building that had been erected during the Mao era.

No elevators. We started climbing stairs to get to the third floor, and I almost immediately tripped and fell. Puzzled, I looked closely at the stairway. Every step was a different height! Some were ~2 inches, some were ~3 inches, a couple were ~4 inches!

I asked him how this came to be. He told me that the building was built by “Peoples Construction Crews” or something like that. Mao believed that college-educated architects were counterrevolutionary, and so tens of thousands of buildings of that era were designed by “The People.” The stairway was one result.

I have to say the building seemed to me to be basically sound; perhaps a little old-fashioned in its over-solidity. I didn’t observe any other deficiencies.

Maybe just the stairways were made by The People.

[GeronL]

so did Venezuela

look how that’s turning out

[immadashell]

And like the commies of old, today's lefties think the same thing...entrance to good colleges is just a matter of money or who knows whom. They are oblivious to the fact that most minorities aren't in upper level colleges because they simply can't do the work. Never mind...stick them in anyway. And when they fail, scream racism.

Social Engineering, like it's very big brother Socialism, is doomed to fail everytime.