Wisconsin's new governor does not have a college degree (he dropped out). Should a degree be required for a governor?

Ohio State Fair 1971 wrote:

Dave Thomas (Wendys) never graduated high school. He got his GED well after his success.

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You think that the creation of Wendy's is good for society?

If the U.S. can elect an empty suit that had absolutely no "real" experience in "work" as POTUS, what difference does a college degree make? I'd rather have someone in office that has some practical real world experience and some common sense than someone papered with a college degree.

the Real UncleB wrote:

Ohio State Fair 1971 wrote:

Dave Thomas (Wendys) never graduated high school. He got his GED well after his success.

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You think that the creation of Wendy's is good for society?

You think you sound smart making a stupid comment like that? You're a f'ing ftard. Being good for society doesn't make him more or less successful.

And anyone with half a brain would argue, yes it is. Competition is a good thing. Without it you'd just have either less competitors, or a different company step up. Wendys helps raise the bar for fast food and providing healthy options, cleanliness. If Mcdonalds had no competition, they could do whatever they wanted basically.

retardalert. wrote:

the Real UncleB wrote:

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You think that the creation of Wendy's is good for society?

You think you sound smart making a stupid comment like that? You're a f'ing ftard. Being good for society doesn't make him more or less successful.

And anyone with half a brain would argue, yes it is. Competition is a good thing. Without it you'd just have either less competitors, or a different company step up. Wendys helps raise the bar for fast food and providing healthy options, cleanliness. If Mcdonalds had no competition, they could do whatever they wanted basically.

You have a strange definition of success. Or perhaps I would call it a Right Wing definition. If you make a ton of dough creating unhealthy food and treating your employees like crap, you are not a success.

Ashley Madison wrote:

If the U.S. can elect an empty suit that had absolutely no "real" experience in "work" as POTUS, what difference does a college degree make? I'd rather have someone in office that has some practical real world experience and some common sense than someone papered with a college degree.

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You need to wake up and smell the reality. W Bush is a moron and Obama is obviously an intelligent man but none of that matters. They both serve as water carriers, bagmen, for the rich people who pull the strings. Obama's policies are exactly Bush's policies....more tax breaks for rich folks who surely don't need them, an exploding debt, ignoring the rule of law in shutting down and eliminating critics of official policy, obedience to their Israeli masters, foreign wars sold to us with lies or no explanation at all.

To answer the original question, it should not matter if your constituency voted you in.

We can come up all day with successful people that didn't go to / finish college, and a bigger list of people that did go and finish and don't make shit.

Lincoln? Truman?

oh please wrote:

We can come up all day with successful people that didn't go to / finish college, and a bigger list of people that did go and finish and don't make shit.

This kind of thinking is what's wrong with America. You can be a plumber with an IQ of 80, run your own business and make several hundred K/year and some people will think of you as more successful than say an environmental lawyer who does a lot of pro bono work, makes 80k/year (more than enough to live comfortably, especially if his wife works). Being successful means leading a happy life and feeling good about your contribution to society. You don't need a lot of money to do that.

Another example is the oil sands up in Alberta, where guys will get hired straight out of high school and be earning over a 100k/year within a year or two of starting there. At the same time, those people work massive overtime in frigid conditions near the Arctic Circle in a dirty, disgusting environment. As a result, there is substantial drug and alcohol abuse among workers who are trying to cope. Going to college, for me, wasn't about making as much money as I could so much as it was about getting a job that I would enjoy going to and have enough free-time to continue doing the things that I love like, running, mountaineering...etc.

TCB wrote:

Sarah Palin dropped out of 4 colleges before graduating with a degree in communications from the University of Idaho. She hasn't released her GPA, but her high school GPA was a 2.2 and I have a hunch that her college GPA was lower (since she keeps it hidden). I don't know if this is relevant to the discussion, but just thought you all would like to know...

HS GPA of 2.2?!? No Way! Is that even possible? Or are you just making up "facts"?

Prove it please. I'd love to see this.

Wikiquoter wrote:

On Wikipedia it says:

"He then attended Marquette University from 1986 to 1990, but dropped out during his senior year with a 2.59 GPA"

Al McGuire, former Marquette BBall coach (won NCAA in 1977) once said, "the world is run by C students."

Maybe finishing college would have allowed him to see the wisdom in accepting the federal transportation money for high speed rail which was the reason a HSR manufacturing company had intended to locate in Milwaukee. He is already minus several thousand jobs as governor.

You mean to have the wisdom to see that the train would never pay for itself & would be a drain on our already limited budget.

President Washington never attended college. He was pretty good at his job.

I'll just say former Republican governor Tommy Thompson would never had let $810 MILLION dollars the Federal gov't was going to give him for a project in Wisconsin slip out of hands. It's crazy. Walker and his supporters won't admit it but it has to make them sick at how moronic they are.

This year I made $150,000 a year and I dropped out of community college. I was never so bored in my life as when I was in the classroom. In the business world I love it and thrive. Having said that its been a hard road getting where I am. I would never suggest the path I took but its worked for me. This spring I may set up a second venture. Maybe I will find some guy with a masters degree for one of my entry level positions. Give me a guy who who has taken time off and traveled or a guy who enlisted in the military over your standard college grad any day.

The 810 million doesn't cover the amount the state would be left to pay each year. I've heard $7.5 million numbers from conservatives & $2.5 from libs so it's probably somewhere in the middle depending on who you trust.

Yes I'd love a high speed train to be able to take into Milwaukee, but the reality is that the rails we already have are getting very little use. This rail would use technology from 30 years ago & would hardly be high speed with a 79 mph max. So who's going to use a slightly faster train?

Even the strongest supporters of the extinct rail admit that the train would have to be paid for by increasing sales tax on all purchases or taking money from the general fund.

Piyush Jindal is a good young Catholic boy of East Indian background who became an American as a result of getting a good education in the United States.

Rails won't be used because they are unsafe and full of minorities. Thats the truth.

Honesty From Mats wrote:

Piyush Jindal is a good young Catholic boy of East Indian background who became an American as a result of getting a good education in the United States.

Whatever you think of his politics (this post and the previous one by me are neutral) he is ridiculously accomplished. Secretary of Health and Human Services in Louisiana at 25, head of the University of Louisiana System at 28. Wow.