Stupid is as stupid does and stupidity votes Obama

[Asher]

Oh right, my mistake. It's about how productive you are in the world and how much money you make.

No, there's nothing wrong with being in academics. You don't understand what I said, which is a trait I see often with people who are academically bright.

My comment was based on his academic record. What you score in school doesn't mean you're intelligent, it means you're book-smart or wealthy enough to buy your grades. If you work with enough PhDs, you have to wonder how some of them tie their shoes.

I manage a couple PhDs, and they require a ton of hand-holding. Others are ridiculously good. The point is, the academic record itself means ****.

[Hauldren Collider]

You really can't make a credible claim of Romney being stupid. He's incredibly successful, has a good academic record, and has reached basically the second-highest level any person can achieve in American politics with a pretty decent chance of actually reaching the highest. These things are not coincidences.

Also, Asher, people at American universities do not buy their grades.

[Lorizael]

Also, Asher, people at American universities do not buy their grades.

[Hauldren Collider]

It's true. That's a big reason why US university degrees are so valuable. What's so laughable?

They certainly don't at Brigham Young or Harvard.

[onodera]

Wait, what? You're telling me this story is real? I've thought that Gawker was something like The Onion and was ridiculing Romney with this obviously retarded quoted idea of his.

[giblets]

You really can't make a credible claim of Romney being stupid. He's incredibly successful, has a good academic record, and has reached basically the second-highest level any person can achieve in American politics with a pretty decent chance of actually reaching the highest. These things are not coincidences.

Also, Asher, people at American universities do not buy their grades.

It's like you went into a coma during the Bush administration.

[Wezil]

We all did (or tried to).

[Asher]

It's true. That's a big reason why US university degrees are so valuable. What's so laughable?

They certainly don't at Brigham Young or Harvard.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was mentioning earlier. You have a sort of naïveté -- not yet jaded enough to understand how the world actually works.

[Hauldren Collider]

I'm in college, Asher, you can't claim I don't have experience with it.

[kentonio]

I don't actually care enough, Asher. Mitt Romney's claim was reasonable for a layman. He's running for president, not test pilot.

I'm not a test pilot either, but my first response to reading that quote was 'what a ****ing moron'. It's the kind of comment you expect from a 12 year old.

We could, but we think that letting consumers decide what they want on a market is a better means of rationing because it would result in more efficient care and more access to treatments. Which is the Paul Ryan plan.

Just answer a question for me please that I've always wondered about: what exactly is this 'choice' that you're so proud about when it comes to medical decisions? Are you a doctor or a medical professional who is qualified to 'choose' which treatments to undertake or which drugs to take? Oh and given that you have the least efficient healthcare system in the developed nations, why would you think it would result in more efficient care

As for rationing, that is some incredibly stupid **** right there. The only treatments that don't make it past boards like NICE are hugely expensive experimental treatments, and guess what you can go get those privately if you want anyway.

[Asher]

I'm in college, Asher, you can't claim I don't have experience with it.

So you've tried to buy your grades?

[Hauldren Collider]

As for rationing, that is some incredibly stupid **** right there. The only treatments that don't make it past boards like NICE are hugely expensive experimental treatments, and guess what you can go get those privately if you want anyway.

This is exactly what Medicare doesn't do. All the reform proposals by the republicans have curtailing this sort of abuse in mind.

[Hauldren Collider]

So you've tried to buy your grades?

I don't need to buy my grades.

I do know that my professors wouldn't consider selling them.

How do you know that they would? Did that happen at U Calgary?

[kentonio]

This is exactly what Medicare doesn't do. All the reform proposals by the republicans have curtailing this sort of abuse in mind.

What doesn't Medicare do? What abuses? Your post didn't seem to actually be in answer to what I asked.

I do know that my professors wouldn't consider selling them.

That's very trusting of you. I had a lecturer who told us once that a colleague of his had been offered a blowjob by a female student in return for a first in his course. He failed to mention the colleagues response.

[Lorizael]

It's true. That's a big reason why US university degrees are so valuable. What's so laughable?

They certainly don't at Brigham Young or Harvard.

We generally don't have flagrant and transparent corruption in the US university system, yes. You can't just walk in to the Dean's office and hand over a duffle of cash in exchange for a degree. (You can with online places, but they're not as well regarded). Instead, extremely rich parents can buy their children admission into a university (often in the form of donations), and unless the child ****s it up royally, the child will get a degree.