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Corrupt Government Title: "The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiendz..." (To be sung to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In the Wind")
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
The A.N.S.W.E.R, my FRiends, is Lib'ralismz DEAD!!!
How many Fears must the Networks create before RATZ're quashed by the FRee?
The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is helping FReep RATZ pigs,
How many times must Lib'rals be duped before they will see RATZ LIE?
The A.N.S.W.E.R., my FRiends, is Fightin' 'Gainst RATZ Spin...
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Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2170. To: Cyber-Band, SamFromSC, Diva Betsy Ross, sultan88, jla, FBD, BOBTHENAILER, blackie, AuntB (#2168)
"Unknown Legend!!"
I never liked all Dem whiners...
John Kerry's a Leftist LIAR...
I ain't takin' it easy...
John Kerry's a Sosh'list LIAR...
Mudboy Slim
492 posted on 6/8/2004, 12:44:18 AM by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2171. To: All (#2156) By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY May 24, 2023 6:44 PM
We’ve covered President Biden’s lawless immigration “parole” scam a number of times (see, e.g., here). Basically, it’s an illegal-alien laundering scheme in which, to try to pretend that the hordes of illegals coming into the country are less numerous than they actually are, Biden and his factotum, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, invite non-Americans the world over to use an app to schedule their illegal crossing of our border. If an alien uses the app, the president pretends he has the power to give the alien a faux visa to come on in. Voila: The alien is no longer deemed illegal! Ergo the crossing doesn’t count as an illegal entry.
From that delusional premise, we are supposed to indulge the fantasy that someday, years or decades from now, the alien will report to immigration authorities, who will evaluate the alien’s (nearly always frivolous) claim of a legal right to be in the United States.
All this, mind you, when the statutory law of the United States has long instructed that people who cross into the country illegally “shall be detained” until the conclusion of their removal proceedings — even the rare alien who may have a colorable asylum or fear-of-persecution claim is supposed to be held in custody until that determination is made. The Biden administration has proposed an administrative rule to countermand the law, notwithstanding the basic principal that, because congressional statutes are superior to administrative rules, the latter must be consistent with, and may not override, the former.
The state of Texas, which has borne the brunt of the Biden border catastrophe, has now sued the administration in federal court over this lunacy. Here’s the introduction of its complaint:
In a farcical attempt to address the invasion of illegal aliens across the southern border following the end of Title 42, the Biden Administration published a new Final Rule inviting migrants to download an app to schedule a convenient time and place to cross the border illegally. Neither the app nor the border patrol officers at the southern border ask if the illegal aliens are seeking asylum, nor do they validate any claim for protection. The Biden Administration is inviting tens of thousands of aliens into Texas, releasing them into the country, and inflicting serious costs on the State of Texas. The Biden Administration’s attempt to manage the southern border by app does not meet even the lowest expectation of competency and runs afoul of the laws Congress passed to regulate immigration, and the Final Rule should be enjoined.
Joe Biden SUX...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2172. To: All (#2169) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2173. To: All (#2170)
"My FRiends!!"
My FRiends, I'm quite impressed...
Hanoi John's got it rough...
I love all of you...
My FRiends are FReedom-blessed...
I love all of you...
Imagine...dream...export Liberty!!
I love all of you...
Mudboy Slim
1 posted on 9/18/2004, 11:35:05 PM by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2174. To: All (#2172) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2175. To: All (#2173)
"The Night The Lights Went Out In Geogia"
He was on his way home from Candletop
That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia
Well, Andy got scared and left the bar
And he went off to Andy's house
Well, the Georgia Patrol was a-makin their rounds
That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia
Well, they hung my brother before I could say
That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia, oh-oh-aah
Pre...MUD
34 posted on 9/20/2004, 3:33:51 PM by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2176. To: All (#2174) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2177. To: All (#2175)
15 June 1999
Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Accord Made Possible By Capitulation--Clinton's"
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
People who have tuned in to any of the networks over the past few days have no doubt been treated to any number of stories celebrating Bill Clinton's great military victory over Yugoslavia, as well as his supposed political victory over those who have questioned the advisability of his ruthless attacks on a sovereign nation that has never threatened our national interests. Does the Leftist Media even believe their own spin?!! Are they as corrupt as Clinton, or just plain IGNORANT?!!
After two months of indiscriminately slaughtering innocent Kosovar Albanians and Serbs alike, destroying the infrastructure of a sovereign nation, and expending a substantial portion of our already-depleted weapons cache, the G-8 deal Slobodon Milosevic apparently has accepted is almost exactly the same as the one we could have had prior to Clinton's commencement of the bloodshed.
By all accounts, the Rambouillet Accords the administration tried to force down the throats of the Yugoslavian leadership were acceptable to Slobo with two major exceptions. First, the occupying force Clinton wanted to install in Kosovo had to be NATO-led, while Slobo insisted that the peacekeepers be UN-led. The difference is critical, as a UN-led force would be monitored by the U.N. Security Council, on which both Russia and China have veto authority; while a NATO-led force would answer directly to Slick Willie.
The second major disagreement related to the future of Kosovo as a province of Yugoslavia, where the U.S./Kosovo Liberation Army contingent demanded a plebiscite in three years, which would allow the ethnic Albanians to secede and form their own Islamic state--while Milosevic insisted that Kosovo remain part of greater Yugoslavia.
The ugly truth the Clinton cheerleaders in the media refuse to publicize is that the G-8 agreement includes a UN-led peace-keeping force, and no provision for Kosovar Albanian independence. Make no mistake about it, the capitulation required to reach an agreement in the Clinton/Milosevic negotiations was much more Clinton's than it was Slobo's--and the two- month massacre was a huge waste of money, weaponry, lives, and American prestige!
Quite Sincerely...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2178. To: All (#2176) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2179. To: Landru, backhoe, Alamo-Girl, Victoria Delsoul, jla, Happygal, ForGod'sSake, meguro, Jhoffa_, war (#2175)
"Shed Powers!!"
Folks, when you're sitting there, thinkin' 'bout supportin' Kerry...
Devolve Power, Prez'dent Dubyuh!! Devolve Power!!
Now hear me, DemocRATZ...Right did Liberate Iraq!!
Devolve Power, RightWing Congress!! Devolve Power!!
(guitar-pickin' and strummin' interlude)
Devolve Power, Prez'dent Dubyuh!! Devolve Power!!
Mudboy Slim (07/29/2004) "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2180. To: All (#2178) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2181. To: Cyber-Band, SamFromSC, MurryMom, Libertina, liberallarry, Reagan Man, goldilucky, M Kehoe, Corin Stormhands (#2179)
"RATZ Loathe Liberty!!"
Out on the cold DeeCee streets we fight...
Who loves Left's Power?!!
Yes, I know...you'll know...
RATZ LOATHE Liberty...
Life's not fer Lib'rals...
Yes, I know...you know...
(Git there...)
Do YOU fear the FRee?!
Yes, I know...you'll know...
RATZ LOATHE Liberty!!
FReedom!! FReedom!! FReedom!!
RATZ LOATHE Liberty!!
Mudboy Slim (06/14/2004) "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2182. To: All (#2180) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2183. To: stand watie, Landru, jla, MeekOneGOP, FBD, BOBTHENAILER, Liz, joanie-f, AuntB, PhiKapMom (#2181)
"Right's All 'Bout TRUTH!!"
Right's seekin' yer Vote 'cuz the LeftWing's Hell!!
Folks, Right's 'bout Truth...Righteous Truth!!
Righteous throng is inspired, as Reagan would say...
Right's FReepin' fer Truth...Right's 'bout Truth!!
Fight 'til Guv'ment's shackles are shed...
Right's seekin' yer Vote 'cuz the LeftWing's Hell...
Right's FReepin' fer Truth...Right's 'bout Truth!!
Nation, we're YOU...Reject RATZ Tools!!
Fight 'til Guv'ment's shackles are shed...
Mudboy Slim (07/27/2004) "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2184. To: All (#2182) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2185. To: All (#2183)
"Right Must Now Lead the World!!"
Everywhere, Left's FReeaks are scary...
Right must now change the world...
Righteous nation, Bush is leading...
Right must now save the World...
(Sweet guitar jammin')
Power devolution's...the Right solution!!
Right must now lead the world...
Mudboy Slim
326 posted on 11/16/2004, 3:46:50 PM by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2186. To: All (#3) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2187. To: EdZep, dead, AuntB, PhiKapMom, Common Tator, Elle Bee, Scholastic, Angelique, Victoria Delsoul (#2185)
"Right's Battle Against Left's Whore"
The King of Lyin' smugly crows...
Has the Right lost its mind?!
Hey...Dems gotta wonder...
Orwell, yer book wuz WRONG...
At last, Reagan'll be smilin'...
Bring it back...RE-IMPEACH...bring it back...then CONVICT...
Oh now...oh now...oh now...YES, NOW...oh now...oh now...oh now...
FReegards...MUD
24 Posted on 09/26/2000 13:19:25 PDT by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2188. To: All (#2186) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2189. To: habs4ever, dwbh, MurryMom, Demidog, TLBSHOW (#2187)
"No Sympathy for the Lib'rals"
Please allow me to introduce the World...
They saw their chance in St. Petersburg,
They cheered with glee helpin' Pol Pot succeed...
I swear to you, DemocRATZ are to blame!
(kewl guitar jammin')
Please believe me, Slick's tyrants are to blame.
Pleased to meet you...Mudboy Slim's my name!
Tell you Country, Lib'rals are their name.
FReegards...MUD
1 Posted on 04/24/2000 06:24:56 PDT by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2190. To: All (#2188) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2191. To: All (#2189) 06/01/2023 David Gordon [This article is adapted from a lecture delivered at the Reno Mises Circle in Reno, Nevada. on May 20, 2023.]
We are faced today with a concentrated attack on the great thinkers of the Western tradition, who are dismissed as “dead white European males.” Robert Nozick used to say that what offended him most in this phrase was the word “dead.” It’s not nice to beat up on people who can’t fight back because they are no longer here! But the attack I’m talking about is no joke. A free society depends on certain principles, and Western thinkers played a major role in their development, though they have counterparts in other civilizations as well. And there is something even more essential. In order to find out about the principles of a free society, we need to think. We must use our reason. But reason is under attack by the “woke” crowd, who dismiss rational thought as just the expression of class prejudice. The ideas of those who shaped the Western tradition are dismissed because they come from a “privileged” class or sex. There is no attempt to examine these ideas analytically.
Ludwig von Mises describes the phenomenon I’ve just been talking about in Human Action:
In the eyes of the Marxians the Ricardian theory of comparative cost is spurious because Ricardo was a bourgeois. The German racists condemn the same theory because Ricardo was a Jew, and the German nationalists because he was an Englishman. Some German professors advanced all these three arguments together against the validity of Ricardo's teachings. However, it is not enough to reject a theory wholesale by unmasking the background of its author.
In this talk, I’m going to give examples of Western thinkers who supported reason and concepts vital to a free society and show how they have been attacked for doing so. As we all know, Aristotle was the founder of logic. Without the tools which he developed, it would be impossible for us to think in a self-consciously rational way. As Robin Smith notes in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Aristotle’s logical works contain the earliest formal study of logic that we have. It is therefore all the more remarkable that together they comprise a highly developed logical theory, one that was able to command immense respect for many centuries: Kant, who was ten times more distant from Aristotle than we are from him, even held that nothing significant had been added to Aristotle’s views in the intervening two millennia.
Murray Rothbard based his natural law ethics on Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. He says in The Ethics of Liberty:
In natural-law philosophy, then, reason is not bound, as it is in modern post-Humean philosophy, to be a mere slave to the passions, confined to cranking out the means to arbitrarily chosen ends. For the ends themselves are selected by the use of reason; and “right reason” dictates to man his proper ends as well as the means to their attainment.
I don’t suggest that there has been no progress in logic or ethics beyond Aristotle. But his ideas deserve to be treated with respect. But here is what Agnes Callard, a philosophy professor at the University of Chicago, has to say about him. To be fair to her, she does not want to cancel him:
The Greek philosopher Aristotle did not merely condone slavery, he defended it; he did not merely defend it, but defended it as beneficial to the slave. His view was that some people are, by nature, unable to pursue their own good, and best suited to be ‘living tools’ for use by other people: “The slave is a part of the master, a living but separated part of his bodily frame.”
Aristotle’s anti-liberalism does not stop there. He believed that women were incapable of authoritative decision making. And he decreed that manual laborers, despite being neither slaves nor women, were nonetheless prohibited from citizenship or education in his ideal city. . . . His inegalitarianism runs deep.
Aristotle thought that the value or worth of a human being — his virtue — was something that he acquired in growing up. It follows that people who can’t (women, slaves) or simply don’t (manual laborers) acquire that virtue have no grounds for demanding equal respect or recognition with those who do.
As I read him, Aristotle not only did not believe in the conception of intrinsic human dignity that grounds our modern commitment to human rights, he has a philosophy that cannot be squared with it. Aristotle’s inegalitarianism is less like Kant and Hume’s racism and more like Descartes’s views on nonhuman animals: The fact that Descartes characterizes nonhuman animals as soulless automata is a direct consequence of his rationalist dualism. His comments on animals cannot be treated as “stray remarks.”
If cancellation is removal from a position of prominence on the basis of an ideological crime, it might appear that there is a case to be made for canceling Aristotle. He has much prominence: Thousands of years after his death, his ethical works continue to be taught as part of the basic philosophy curriculum offered in colleges and universities around the world.
And Aristotle’s mistake was serious enough that he comes off badly even when compared to the various “bad guys” of history who sought to justify the exclusion of certain groups — women, Black people, Jews, gays, atheists — from the sheltering umbrella of human dignity. Because Aristotle went so far as to think there was no umbrella.
The reason she doesn’t want to cancel Aristotle is that we can learn something from him if we take what he says literally and try to grasp an alien pattern of thought. The idea that he was substantially right is not one she is prepared to entertain. And then are many who go further, and downgrade the classical world altogether.
The philosopher Lewis R. Gordon is one of these. He wants to get rid of the notion of the Greeks as the founders of philosophy. In Decolonizing Philosophy, he says,
“Ancient Greeks,” for instance, is a construction that gained much currency in the French and German Enlightenment to refer to ancient Greek-speaking peoples of the Mediterranean. Those people included northern Africans, western Asians, and southern peoples of what later became known as Europe. As the presumption is that the earliest practice of philosophy was among the ancient peoples of Miletus (today in western Turkey) and Athens, the term acquired a near sacred association with the ancient city-states of Greek-speaking peoples, a group of whom referred to themselves as Hellenic. Understanding that the Hellens [sic] were but one set among other Greek-speaking peoples to have emerged in antiquity reveals the fallacy. It is as if to call English-speaking peoples of the present "English." The confusion should be evident. A product of Euromodern imagination, with a series of empires laying claim to the coveted metonymic intellectual identity for posterity, Ancient Greeks stand as a supposed "miracle" from which a hitherto dark and presumably intellectually limited humanity fell sway to what eventually became, through Latin, "civilization."
Gordon’s point is that the Hellenes were only one of the Greek-speaking peoples of the Mediterranean. But it doesn’t follow from this that the others were philosophers too, unless they engaged in rational argument. Gordon doesn’t show that they did. Instead, he says that deductive reasoning is overrated. ..."
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"Elian"
Elian...Elian...
Elian...you're innocent...yeah!
(Haunting keyboard solo)
Woah...Elian, don't you weep...
'Cuz there's lovin' in our souls...
Mudboy Slim
1 Posted on 06/18/2000 07:32:15 PDT by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2194. To: All (#2192) ![]()
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"This Blessed Ground"
I was six years old, American flag in my hand...
Back in Ninety-Five, Prez'dent's tellin' lies and breakin' rules!
Now White House's stonewallin' Congress, showin' no remorse...
So, Right, don't delay, seize the day, condemn Bill's Tyranny!
Mudboy Slim
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"Right is Gonna Swarm"
Riders on the Storm...Right-Wing's gotta Swarm...
(Kewl Guitar Jammin')
Folks, we gotta fight Clinton...folks, we gotta take Slick down...
(Keyboard/Guitar Jammin')
Right is gonna Swarm...the Vile should be forewarned...
Right-Wing's gonna swarm...Right-Wing's gonna swarm...
FReegards...MUD
148 posted on 12/10/2001, 10:47:47 AM by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2198. To: All (#2196) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2199. To: All (#2191) 06/02/2023 Julian Adorney
Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founders of critical race theory (CRT), recently decried what she called the “war on wokeness” (by which she seems to mean a war on CRT). According to her, this “war on wokeness” is “the road to an authoritarian state that’s paved through the history of white supremacy.” It’s true that the “war on wokeness” has taken on authoritarian overtones of late. Many Republicans are rejecting the ideas of pluralism and free speech that underpin the American ideal and pushing through broad laws aimed at banning the teachings of CRT. In their desire to stop “wokeness,” these laws often muzzle dissenters and are so broadly written that they can throw the baby out with the bathwater. Free speech advocates have roundly condemned these laws and for good reason.
But it’s also true that critical race theory has serious problems. You don’t have to be a “white supremacist” or trying to promote an “authoritarian state” to be skeptical of CRT. First, prominent critical race theorists (“Crits” as they call themselves) lean hard into race essentialism. In their book Is Everyone Really Equal?, Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo (of White Fragility fame) lay out some quotations that they disagree with. One such quotation is, “People should be judged by what they do, not the color of their skin.” Sensoy and DiAngelo dismiss this idea as “predictable, simplistic, and misinformed.”
It’s tough to overstate how inimical this concept is to modern-day American values. Martin Luther King Jr. famously proclaimed, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” For Sensoy and DiAngelo, this dream is “misinformed.”
In another section, Sensoy and DiAngelo list traits (allegedly) held by members of the “dominant group” in society (white people, straight people, men, etc.) and contrast them with traits they claim are held by members of “minoritized groups” (black people, LGBTQ folks, women, etc.). Traits held by the dominant group include “presumptuous, does not listen, interrupts, raises voice, bullies, threatens violence, becomes violent.”
Traits held by the minority group include “feels inappropriate, awkward, doesn’t trust perception . . . finds it difficult to speak up, timid.” For Sensoy and DiAngelo, members of the majority group are angry bullies who don’t care about anyone except themselves, and minorities are timid children who can’t speak up or look after themselves. Is it any wonder that many minorities find this kind of rhetoric offensive?
A second reason to oppose CRT is that many Crits don’t admit that society can ever really get better. In the book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Richard Delgado (another founder of CRT) and Jean Stefancic argue that American race relations don’t improve. They call many of the civil rights gains of the 1950s and 1960s—including Brown v. Board, the landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated schools across the country—“shams.” According to the authors, these gains are merely “hollow pronouncements issued with great solemnity and fanfare, only to be silently ignored, cut back, or withdrawn when the celebrations die down.”
For Delgado and Stefancic, meaningful social change is almost impossible. Unless all of society changes at once, “change is swallowed up by the remaining elements, so that we remain roughly as we were before.” This is an ideology that has little room for the gains of the Civil Rights Movement or the dramatic decrease in bigotry in the sixty years since. A foundational American story is that our society is imperfect but getting better, but CRT only has room for the first half of that statement.
Finally, critical race theory is explicitly opposed to the Enlightenment ideals upon which America was founded. Sensoy and DiAngelo say that CRT initially advocated “a type of liberal humanism (individualism, freedom, and peace)” but stress that it “quickly turned to a rejection of liberal humanism.” Values such as freedom and individualism are, apparently, not particularly welcome in Crit circles. According to Delgado and Stefancic, “Critical Race Theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order.” CRT is opposed to “equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.” If you want the law to treat people equally regardless of their immutable characteristics (i.e., race, gender), then, by their founders’ own admission, CRT is not for you.
Critical race theory isn’t all bad, and there are concepts like intersectionality that can help us to recognize the struggles and advantages of people who don’t look like us. But the field has deep problems, and more and more Americans of all ethnicities are picking up on this. Maligning critics as “white supremacists” is unlikely to fix those problems.
CRT is a Marxist LIE...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2200. To: All (#2198) (Edited) 22 Hunnerd...
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"Billy the Kid"
From a town known as Little Rock in the Ozarks,
So, he swindled a bank with Jim McDougald,
Well, one fine day those scandals ensnared Billy,
From a town somewhere in mid-America,
1 Posted on 08/16/1999 19:33:28 PDT by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2202. To: All (#2200) ![]()
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"Masterful Whore"
Slick's a Masterful Whore...
Slick has never done nothin'...
Like Vile Tyrants of Olde...
Left enslaves all their Victims...
Slick's now Left's nightmare...
How, folks, do I know?!
Slick, lemme ask you some questions...
Slick, I hope you don't DIE...
FReegards...MUD
50 Posted on 07/15/2001 20:26:05 PDT by Mudboy Slim "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2204. To: All (#2202) ![]()
Regards...MUD "NOW...Devolve Power Outta the Federal Leviathan!!" #2205. To: All (#2199) By Salena Zito Tuesday, 06 June 2023 09:50 AM
A few months ago, Mike Rowe stumbled upon a 2011 video of himself speaking in front of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee during the Obama administration about the mindset of government toward skilled trades. His argument was that skilled trades were the key to saving our economy, not those jobs that require a four- year degree. His argument fell on deaf ears.
So he went again in April of 2014, this time testifying before the House Committee on Natural Resources to discuss the opportunities for skilled trade workers in the energy industry. This time he brought props, specifically the poster his guidance counselor from high school pointed to when he tried to bully Rowe into picking a high-priced university over a community college his senior year. Rowe said he had nothing against college, but the universities his counselor recommended were expensive.
"I had no idea what I wanted to study. I thought a community college made more sense, but Mr. Dunbar said a two-year school was 'beneath my potential,'" explained Rowe. "Mr. Dunbar pointed to a poster hanging behind his desk; on one side of the poster was a beaten-down, depressed- looking blue-collar worker. On the other side was an optimistic college graduate with his eyes on the horizon. Underneath them, the text read: Work Smart NOT Hard," Rowe told the committee. "Mike, look at these two guys," Mr. Dunbar said. "Which one do you want to be?"
"I had to read the caption twice. Work Smart NOT Hard?" Rowe recounted. The visual was jarring, not to mention insulting, yet once again, nothing happened.
Rowe made his final plea to Congress in March of 2017 when he once again schlepped to Capitol Hill, this time for the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education. He discussed how Career and Technical Education (CTE) can help close the skills gap and empower students to succeed, and he stressed the need to reform the current law. His message was simple: Career and technical education, and skilled trade professions, need a PR makeover and a champion. "If you want to make America great again, you've got to make work cool again," he said. "So, my point to Congress was we just have to get people to think differently about the definition of a good job. And we need to put better examples of real people out there who are prospering as the result of learning a trade," he said.
"We just shot seven or eight PSAs a couple months ago with people who we helped through the trade scholarship fund at the foundation. HVAC workers, plumbers, welders, all making six figures, and I am going to put these PSAs out there in the same spirit of those ads that made people think differently about conservation, and we are going to make people think differently about work," he said.
The spots are pitch perfect. The first one with Chloe Hudson begins with Rowe dispelling the notion that you cannot make six figures working with your hands. It then cuts to Hudson, a welder who received a work ethic scholarship from mikeroweWORKS and went on to earn six figures a year, talking about the beauty of her life. "I'm going to raise whatever I have to, I'm going to spend whatever I have to get these examples front and center. So that's what I've got. In a way, it's nothing new. In another way, it's me finally saying, 'Look, this was a good idea 10 years ago, and why not me?' I'll do it. I'm going to do it," Rowe says with his characteristic charm that has endeared him to millions for more than 20 years.
Rowe said people really need to acknowledge the "unspeakable stupidity" of taking shop classes out of high schools 40 years ago. "The unintended consequences of that alone have been unraveling in ways that's just mind-boggling. We effectively removed from view an entire category of vocations," he said. "In the long history of stupidity, you'd have to go a long way to find something dumber than universally removing shop class from high school. But of course, at the same time we did that, we started telling that same generation of kids that the best path for the most people was the most expensive path," he said of the idea that higher education is the only path to success.
Which brings Rowe to wonder: Were they intentionally telling students who went into trades that they were achieving lower education? It should make us wonder as well: Who did these decision-makers think was going to take care of their plumbing, fix their car, install their air conditioning, repair their furnace or rewire their house?
Rowe said he knows he is not going to open the eyes of the varsity blues crowd. "I can't. They're not persuadable. But there are a lot of people in the middle, a lot of people that just want to feel better about the possibility of exploring a career. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take my own advice. I'm going to stop telling Congress what to do, and I'm going to do it myself," he said.
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We abhor Butch Reno...and we'll take Slick Willie down.
Clinton is Pure Evil, knaves...Slick snowed Dem-Medyuh shills!!
I drove on up to DeeCee...brain-dead Lib'rals fought me there.
Got two reasons why I stay awake each lonely night.
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