Posted on 02/17/2020 3:37:31 PM PST by Beave Meister
It’s no wonder he chose to skip the Iowa caucus, given that former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg apparently thinks farmers and manufacturers all across America lack “gray matter."
In a clip just now circulating online, Bloomberg, while speaking at Oxford’s Said Business School back in 2016, explained that "anybody [can] be a farmer," but that it takes "a lot more gray matter" to "think and analyze" enough to work in the tech field.
“I could teach anybody – even people in this room, no offense intended – to be a farmer,” Bloomberg explained. “It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that.”
Bloomberg then switched to insulting manufacturers and tradesmen.
"Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal in the lathe, you turn the crank in direction of an arrow, and you can have a job,” he said.
Having a job in information technology, he said, is “fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set. You have to have a lot more gray matter.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mrctv.org ...
There is a story from long ago of a Chicago born and raised politician who had never traveled outside the city, who became politically ambitious enough to want to run for governor of Illinois.
But this required him to actually travel around the state to make campaign stops. Being driven by his campaign manager, he was impressed by fully grown corn fields, so asked him, what is that?
“That’s corn, sir, almost ready to harvest, so we have to campaign here now because soon the farmers will be very busy.”
“You mean that stuff that comes in cans?”, he replied.
This reminds me of the difference between US and Russian spacemen. The US has long had the attitude of “replace, not repair”, so much of what they use is modular. The Russians had the opposite policy, so became known among the Americans as being able to fix just about any problem they encountered.
The US space station Skylab operated for under a year. The Soviet space station Mir operated for a decade.
Eventually the two decided to sponsor the International Space Station, which had an American module and a Russian module. In either case, if either module had an emergency, its occupants could safely evacuate to the other module.
He should have listened to this tune by Canadian folk singer Murray McLauchlan. Thanks from this kid in the city to you....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTMvtII8Elk
What many folks are missing is the language MiniMike used:
“health care will bankrupt ^US^...”
“...so ^WE^ can give them a car, a cellphone...”
The language of The Collective!
Mini Mike can teach idiots to farm! Creepy Joe can teach idiots to code! Gosh, aren’t Democrats wonderful! /s
A farmer educated Bloomberg
https://www.facebook.com/OurWyomingLife/videos/2239158963056591/?vh=e&d=n
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