This is the propaganda wing of Obama trying to paint Palin supporters as dumb and unsuccessful, a la PA rednecks who are losers in life, bitterly clinging guns and Bible, etc. etc. (narrative variation 3056).
Of course, in their minds,
college degree = smart (if you have one of those Ivy gold gilded ones = supersmarts)
earnings = successful or not in life.
One can play their game, too. “Young and Smart people” starting out with lower income apparently appreciate Palin more than Romney. Again, nothing new here, Romeny = establishment GOP RINOwing.
This is a rather longwinded rant of random thoughts, seems the older I get, the more prone I become for such pontificating.
Higher education is made much of by some people, but it is not the end all, for all people. To obtain a higher education is a noble and laudable thing, but it is not achievable, nor desired by everyone.
I, along with five siblings were the children of a divorced single Mother who detested any thought of accepting commodities (AKA welfare at the time) etc, and to say we were poor, would be a gross understatement. Mother only made it to the sixth grade, but she had a root wild hog or die work ethic, and aside from her unstinting love, that was perhaps the greatest gift she instilled in and bequeathed to us all.
In the early 1950s we became migrant farm workers, following the crops from east to west and north to south, cotton chopping and picking, fruits and vegetables. We did it all, and often our only home was an old Chevy, with Mother’s kitchen consisting of a little two burner kerosene stove set up beside the road. When hungry, a diet of fry bread and potatoes with yellow mustard was good food, with quantity taking precedence over quality. 60 years later, the smell of a lit unscented kerosene lamp brings back a rush of those memories. But I digress.
Education for siblings and I was a catch as catch can thing, but with all being voracious readers, (escape into world’s other than our own) Mother never denied us access to public libraries. (although being transients, some libraries often did)
Aside from youngest brother, who went on to obtain a university degree, the rest of us never completed high school and are for the most part self educated, yet having had successful and productive lives.
I myself quit school after the eighth grade and went to work full time, but years later, did walk in off the street, took and passed the GED test. I have never felt held back for the lack of a formal education. Knowing that producing results count for more than a piece of paper, I always strove for that end in any work or job I undertook. I have chaired committees consisting of professional engineers of various disciplines, I have been granted US mechanical patents, (and sold numerous other inventions outright) and retired from the private sector at age 52.
Public libraries have always afforded for free, most any subject one might seek the learning of. But today with the Internet, knowledge of the ages is at one’s finger tips, and there is simply no excuse for ignorance. The point being, those that have the want, will get the how.
Throwing good money after bad at attempts for educating the, uncaring, lazy, shiftless, and incompetent, is a total waste of time, energy, and resources. They will neither garner benefit for themselves or society, ever.