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I read this today at work, while eating a rushed lunch so that I could finish my patients before midnight.

I'm 58 years old, I'm a failed college football player, a Viet Nam Veteran (101st Army Ranger medic), a pre-med college student (after that war), honors graduate, post grad medical school, subsequent graduate of that, and a medical doctor. I did that in a little less that 9 years. I had no time to fart around like this zero. I had a goal, I had a dream, and (as the old Jerry Reid song says) I had a long way to go, and a short time to get there. That took sacrifice and dedication. It also took focus and maturity. War, and the military will give you plenty of that, the dedication and sacrifice you'll have to come up with on your own. I've seen these zeros before, they make me ill.

They treat an education like a license to be lazy. Lazy, yes I said lazy. You chose a goal and you love it like nothing you've ever loved and you put you're whole being around it, and then you go for it with all the love you have in your soul. Focus, dedication, and sacrifice and accomplishment.

This guy will never know the felling of accomplishment that I have. Reason; he can't take those ideas and concepts that are learned and turn them into real practice, he just doesn't have the intuitiveness, or the raw intelligence. Forget confidence, this kid will never have that, he's a zero.

This kid has 200 and some odd credit hours of "do you want fries with that"?

Walk a mile in MY shoes, you little a$$hole, and you may find enlightenment in education, and not the next kegger.

Oh, by the way you paid for my education, not all of it, but you paid for my undergraduate education. I thank you for that, but I made a deal. I fight for my country in Viet Nam and you pay for my education. I promised I'd make it worth your while, and I did. My post graduate education was paid for by grants and loans, they have been paid back for a long time. I wasted nobody's money. As precious and as expensive as an education is I would never, ever waste that money as this piece of human dung is doing.

God knows, he just may be a roll model. Today, you never know. I sure as he!! won't, not on "Sixty Minutes".

I look at the education system today and I shudder. I can't retire, cause there is no one out there to take my place. They can't add, subtract, multiply, or divide. If they can't do that then abstract mathematics is totally out of the question. They can't use logistics, they can't make a logical decision on their own. Hell, they can't think! If you can't think you can't work, and in my line of work that's fatal. They can't write a logical sentence, if nobody can understand you you will never be heard, and in my profession that means somebody dies.

Well, I had my rant. This guy is the personification of "lazy college bum". He will never amount to anything near what he sucked up getting his "education" and he will probably be a ward of the socialist state that he loves so much, costing good working men and women a portion of their hard earned money to feed the little s$it. And life goes on in our glorious country, because this is possible.