I hear you. My undergrad was at Berkeley and former Clinton treasury undersecretary Bradford DeLong was always whaling on how Bush was destroying our economy through deficit spending and an unnecessary tax cut in times of boom.
Oh wait ...
At any rate, we are in for the worst downturn since the great depression. Goldman Sachs said that unemployment would reach 8.5% at the end of next year with not upturn in sight by 2010. We probably won’t see job recovery until late 2012 at most.
Do you speak up? I was also an A student and used to fight my leftist professors tooth & nail (it became a bit a theater with a few of them)— the professors actually loved it and I’m sure I gave the students something to think about (which is more than the usual classes did). It’s not easy, but winning minds never is.
What did you expect?
You don't expect professors where you are to hold liberal points of view?
Nobody argued with the professor, including you?
What do you care what he says about the election? Does that affect his knowledge of whatever you hoped to learn from him by taking the class?
Could you have walked out during the rant, since you "don't need the class" anyway? If so, why didn't you?
Just in case you haven’t see this yet, email this article to them.
Waltzing on the Titanic
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American Thinker ^ | November 15, 2008 | Larrey Anderson
Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:14:59 AM by vietvet67
One thing that I wish for from the 1970s - I remember my mother getting a 10 year bank CD that paid 17% interest! Of course, the rest of the economic situation is what made that level of interest possible, so no, I NO NOT want to see THAT again!
Mark
I had almost exactly the opposite experience a few years back in an international business class. The class was mandatory for both the B-School students AND the Intl Relations students. There was about a 3-1 ratio of B-school to IR.
The IR students came in spouting all sorts of stuff about the evils of Globalization, how the European countries were SO much more enlightened on economic and labor issues (read: socialism and institutionalized laziness).
The professor, with the help of some of us B-Schoolers, kicked their a**es. Much to their chagrin, since they obviously expected everyone else in the class to just automatically agree with them. It also helped that the prof had been a dissident in Eastern Europe during the Cold War and was an unrepentant capitalist and free-market believer.
One caviat, get a good friend to film it on a hand held digital cam quarter and then post the debate on You-Tube.
Weenies like this cannot stand the debate, put the heat on.
I am not taking classes at this point, but the last couple, when a canard was thrown out like the rich get loopholes I spoke up.
The last time I’ve had that was when I was in undergraduate over 15 years ago. It wasn’t nearly as bad. It was mostly the feminist who made us write stories about female struggle,abuse,men etc. Although it was irritating. I was an English major.
Caveat emptor :)
Who's going to pay for all the things they are proposing?
- they will answer: government
How does the government get money?
- Tax revenues from the rich
So, if the rich are spending all their extra money on taxes, how are they going to afford cars, clothes, new houses and all the new products that keep the economy going, people employed and tax revenues flowing?
- [sounds of crickets chirping]
If they haven't thought it this far through...they've been educated in Amerikuh, of course they haven't thought it through. They don't know how to think.
What must it be like to never have one's opinions challenged? I would guess one's debating skills are severely atrophied. Go after him!
That is, you don't respond to a single question or comment that anyone makes....So what's you're point?...I don't get it.