"OH, A BS ARTIST!"
This is the sort of "philosophy" being subsidized by the taxpayers - one completely soaked in envirnomentalism and class warfare.
Welders do productive work and I'm sure that with a shortage of welders overtime pays very well - these "educator-philosphers" demand tenure.
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Oh and there's this from NPR:
Amid A Shortage Of Welders, Some Prisons Offer Training
"America needs more welders - and soon. Baby boomers with the skill are retiring and not enough young people are replacing them.
In the '80s, when Flashdance brought us Alex the welding woman who really wanted to be a ballet dancer, America had well over half a million welders. Welding was hot. Today, there are about 40 percent fewer welders.
The American Welding Society estimates there will be a shortage of nearly 300,000 welding-related positions by 2020.
Jeremy Worley, who teaches welding at a technical college in north Georgia, says the demand for welders is at a level that is growing "quicker than we can get them out."
So Worley will teach welding to anyone at any age, anywhere, including inside Walker State Prison. As part of its ongoing prison reform, Georgia decided to give inmates access to heavy tools and blowtorches so they can get a welding certificate...."
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Maybe the "philosopher-educators" are responsible for prisons bulging at the seams - they sure are nurturing and importing antisocial elements at Missouri University.
I say the positive contribution of welders is much more than "philosophers" like Avery Kolers and that we need to rethink what is being pushed on society at these institutions.
Love those liberals .... so cocksure .... so .... so .... right.
Actuallly, doc, your premise about what market economies are supposed to do looks a little bit unexamined. You might want to rethink that one.
And oh, by the way, free-market capitalism isn't a religion. That title belongs to your liberalism.
"OH, A BS ARTIST!"
Whatever my issues with Rubio, this was a fine moment on his part in the debate.
As I read this ignorant and sophomoric screed, I was struck again by how academic types are almost universally oblivious to the unintended irony in what they write.
Here we are provided a clear and unambiguous example of why welders are held in higher regard, both economically and personally, than “philosophers,” most of whom are undeserving of the name, since they love neither knowledge nor the life of the mind. Most are simply infatuated with the gaseous bubbling of their own thoughts.
The day I hear Republicans talk about making polluters pay is the day I'll begin to believe that they care about genuinely free markets.Just when you thought you had the free market thing all figured out... "Making" people pay is not a "genuine" free market.
I got slimed by Marco RubioNo, you were slime way before that.
Welders put things together, taking simple shapes, and fusing them together. Watching a man use a TIG welder is watching an artist. To look at a well laid bead, is beauty in steel, and to know that he is improving the world is humbling.
Tell me again how this life support system for a dry hole has made the world better.
Avery Kolers is a whiner. Has she ever had to fend for herself in the private sector?
Reading the comments at Salon is a glimpse into an alternate universe, a truly dark and vile place.
Sounds like someone’s panties are in a wad because Rubio told the dead-on truth that occupational specialties have become de-emphasized in this country. We have far more than enough self-styled philosophers.
This guy can’t write, sounds like a drug induced rage
Welders produce a useful product. Philosophers produce BS.
Well the headline is right. Rubio is ignorant. He is also GOPe.
Rubio has earned one ATTABOY for this one LOL
What is the AVERAGE salary for all welders?
A philosopher that does not know welders “join” things ain’t too smart, IMHO.
If Trump is able to send the ILLEGAL Welders back home, I can promise you the remaining American Welders will do just fine, and it wouldn’t surprise me to find this babe sending her kids to Welding School, as opposed to having them study Fraud in her basement, into their 40s.
Well at least this Leftist here got a single fact correct. The O regimes crony capitalism pretending to be "stimulus" spending did nothing to restore the US Economy, it merely made his fat cat campaign donors richer.
This “philosopher” keeps discussing a concept “social worth” that does not exist.
For it to exist it must be measurable and constant. That is, what one person sees as the “social worth” of anything must be what everyone sees as the “social worth” of that same thing.
Since what he sees as having “social worth” is what I see as having no value what so ever, even having negative value, therefore “social worth” becomes merely another way to say “opinion”.
In my opinion, this guy’s “social worth” is the same as that of used toilet paper.
Consider this argument for the value of philosophy from one of the strongest advocates for liberty and freedom in the twentieth century:
“You have no choice about the necessity to integrate your observations, your experiences, your knowledge into abstract ideas, i.e., into principles. Your only choice is whether these principles are true or false, whether they represent your conscious, rational convictions—or a grab-bag of notions snatched at random, whose sources, validity, and consequences you do not know, notions which, more often than not, you would drop like a hot potato if you knew.”
(Ayn Rand, “Philosophy: Who Needs It”)