A negative correlation between mineral resources and a nation's well-being

[finnbow]

There seems to be “a significant negative relationship between the money countries extract from national resources and the knowledge and skills of their high school population.”

Maybe the party of "drill, baby, drill" and the belief that educated people are "snobs" should take heed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/op...d-the-oil.html

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

There seems to be “a significant negative relationship between the money countries extract from national resources and the knowledge and skills of their high school population.”

Maybe the party of "drill, baby, drill" and the belief that educated people are "snobs" should take heed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/op...d-the-oil.html

And I always thought that oil production required people with technical backgrounds and a skilled workforce.

Chas

[BlueStreak]

Yeah, Pat, but so long as their faith is strong and their knowledge of World history was fed to them by Conservapedia and the Texas Board of Education we will remain exceptional.......as the rest of the world moves forward without us.

Dave

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Charles

And I always thought that oil production required people with technical backgrounds and a skilled workforce.

Chas

It does. So, do us a favor and forward your comment to that idiot Santorum, please.

Dave

[Charles]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

It does. So, do us a favor and forward your comment to that idiot Santorum, please.

Dave

What, it Santorum advocating that we rebuild America using cretins with picks and post hole diggers, or am I missing something?

Chas

[BlueStreak]

Isn't encouraging Americans to seek higher education-----Snobbery?

Dave

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Charles

What, it Santorum advocating that we rebuild America using cretins with picks and post hole diggers, or am I missing something?

Chas

That represents a pretty good description of his constituency.

Didn't you follow his snob kerfuffle?

[Oerets]

For some reason the movie "Idiocracy" just popped in my head!

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1622016281/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBvIweCIgwk


Barney

[Charles]

Originally Posted by finnbow

That represents a pretty good description of his constituency.

Didn't you follow his snob kerfuffle?

Can't say that I did.

Obama is a snob. But Santorum should have called him "unrealistic" in this instance, as the issue is now being portrayed as Santorum thinks that anyone who has been schooled beyond the point of tying their own shoes is a waste of resources.

Political spin.

Chas

[merrylander]

I have always maintained that any country's greatest natural resource is its people. This is why SinglePayer make so much sense. Since roughly half of that resource is female not giving women equality is deliberatly wasting half of your resource. Of course all that is just too sensible and so will be denied or ignored.