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03-10-2012, 06:58 PM
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A negative correlation between mineral resources and a nation's well-being
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
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03-10-2012, 07:22 PM
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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
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And I always thought that oil production required people with technical backgrounds and a skilled workforce.
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03-10-2012, 07:22 PM
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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.
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03-10-2012, 07:24 PM
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And I always thought that oil production required people with technical backgrounds and a skilled workforce.
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It does. So, do us a favor and forward your comment to that idiot Santorum, please.
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03-10-2012, 07:48 PM
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It does. So, do us a favor and forward your comment to that idiot Santorum, please.
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What, it Santorum advocating that we rebuild America using cretins with picks and post hole diggers, or am I missing something?
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03-10-2012, 07:50 PM
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Isn't encouraging Americans to seek higher education-----Snobbery?
Dave
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03-10-2012, 07:51 PM
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What, it Santorum advocating that we rebuild America using cretins with picks and post hole diggers, or am I missing something?
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That represents a pretty good description of his constituency.
Didn't you follow his snob kerfuffle?
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03-10-2012, 08:07 PM
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03-10-2012, 08:28 PM
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That represents a pretty good description of his constituency.
Didn't you follow his snob kerfuffle?
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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.
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03-11-2012, 08:52 AM
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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.
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