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Failing Education: The True Cause Of Income Inequality

hypocritexposer

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However, the real reason that we have income inequality in this country has to do with something that the Democrats are completely complicit in: Sustaining a failing and highly unionized educational system for the sole purpose of garnering union votes. It is actually the level of someone's education that determines whether or not a person will be able to share in the wealth of this country and not a bunch of Democrat-sponsored "band aids" such as raising the minimum wage, or extending unemployment benefits, or whatever. There is no better proof of that than this chart:



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Monday, January 27, 2014
Failing Education: The True Cause Of Income Inequality
This year -- an election year -- Obama and the Democrats think they have a winning issue in proposing spending measures and legislation that would fight income inequality. For any Democrat, the rallying cry to getting those measures passed and, subsequently, getting themselves elected (or reelected), will be that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer; and, that they are the ones watching out for the poor while the Republicans only want to protect the rich. Thus, we will be going back to the 2008 campaign when Obama told "Joe the Plumber" that we need to "spread the wealth around."

However, the real reason that we have income inequality in this country has to do with something that the Democrats are completely complicit in: Sustaining a failing and highly unionized educational system for the sole purpose of garnering union votes. It is actually the level of someone's education that determines whether or not a person will be able to share in the wealth of this country and not a bunch of Democrat-sponsored "band aids" such as raising the minimum wage, or extending unemployment benefits, or whatever. There is no better proof of that than this chart:

Statistics are for workers 25 or older (click to zoom)


Now, it doesn't take a PhD to see the direct correlation between education and income levels and education and unemployment rates. So, the real solution to income inequality is a better educated population.

Over the last few decades, there have been dozens of proposals on how to improve education in America. But, all have been rejected, completely out of hand, by Democrat politicians on behalf of "their" teachers' unions. That's because those proposals would either jeopardize the size of existing union membership; or, would have changed how teachers are paid; or, would have disciplined or fired poor performing teachers; and, would have eliminated the stupid concept of tenure. Never once was the best interest of the student taken into any consideration.

http://cuttingthroughthefog.blogspot.ca/2014/01/failing-education-true-cause-of-income.html
 

Tom in TN

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This kind of simplistic explanation of a complex issue gives me pause. There very well may be a correlation between educational attainment and earnings, but that does not prove a cause/effect relationship.

I remember reading an expose while I was in high school back in the late 50s or early 60s that illustrated a logical fallacy. The premise was that there was a correlation between the length of the inseam of school-boys trousers and their reading abilities. One possible plan of action to increase school-children's reading ability then, was to buy longer pants for them.

Smart people generally are better educated than less smart people. Smart people generally have greater employment success than less smart people. But it's the "smarts" that cause the success, not the education that causes the success.

Drive. Will. Determination. Culture. Self-control. Geography. Intelligence. And yes, even education all have an effect on what we call success, but no one thing is the "sure-fire" solution to a complex issue.

At least. that's the way this old man sees it.

Tom in TN
 

Mike

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Over the last few decades, there have been dozens of proposals on how to improve education in America. But, all have been rejected, completely out of hand, by Democrat politicians on behalf of "their" teachers' unions. That's because those proposals would either jeopardize the size of existing union membership; or, would have changed how teachers are paid; or, would have disciplined or fired poor performing teachers; and, would have eliminated the stupid concept of tenure. Never once was the best interest of the student taken into any consideration.
The only way to improve education in this country is first to create competition between schools/teachers and allow students/parents to choose the school of choice. School vouchers.
 

Soapweed

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Tom in TN said:
This kind of simplistic explanation of a complex issue gives me pause. There very well may be a correlation between educational attainment and earnings, but that does not prove a cause/effect relationship.

I remember reading an expose while I was in high school back in the late 50s or early 60s that illustrated a logical fallacy. The premise was that there was a correlation between the length of the inseam of school-boys trousers and their reading abilities. One possible plan of action to increase school-children's reading ability then, was to buy longer pants for them.

Smart people generally are better educated than less smart people. Smart people generally have greater employment success than less smart people. But it's the "smarts" that cause the success, not the education that causes the success.

Drive. Will. Determination. Culture. Self-control. Geography. Intelligence. And yes, even education all have an effect on what we call success, but no one thing is the "sure-fire" solution to a complex issue.

At least. that's the way this old man sees it.

Tom in TN

One "study" proclaimed that a man's intelligence could be determined by how many buttons on his shirt were buttoned. If they were all buttoned and a tie was in place, he must be pretty smart. If half the buttons were open and a lot of chest hair was showing--maybe not so much.
 

hypocritexposer

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Tom...I see it the way you do too, but we have to keep it fairly simple for many, (those on the left), to understand. :wink:

It's hard enough for them to understand anything to do with income inequality.
 
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