KING: Huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks

[underpants]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-huge-education-level-drop-off-trump-cabinet-picks-article-1.2911859

And immediately, it got me curious to find out what the education level of the incoming Trump administration is compared to the Obama administration. What I found is stark and deeply revealing. In fact, the most educated man in the Trump administration is the lone black man — Dr. Ben Carson. If anything, that alone confirms some of what Coates was saying — that a black man has to jump six feet to reach the same thing white folk have to jump two feet for.

It starts from the top down. As Coates noted, Obama earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his law degree from Harvard — where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review.

Donald Trump will be the first President of the United States in 25 years to not have a graduate degree of any kind. Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar and had a law degree from Yale University. Even George W. Bush had a Harvard MBA. Trump has B.S. in economics from University of Pennsylvania, but no advanced education.

While Trump, and these men, may indeed argue that they don't need advanced graduate degrees, because they are so rich and successful, I'd prefer both. Not only that, but many of these nominees, and indeed Trump himself, don't even have a day of experience working inside of the government. These systems are complicated and robust. To see the education levels drop off so much, is not just disappointing, it could be dangerous.

[Zoonart]

1. Okay so..

A Confederacy of Dunces.

ps: If they had not been born into money and privilege, they would be competing for a job flipping burgers like our kids, who cannot get even entry level bad jobs without a degree.

[Phoenix61]

2. Have you ever noticed

how stupid and bat shit crazy go hand in hand? How many of us, given unlimited income, wouldn't pursue higher education. How cool would it be to be able to learn about what ever touched your fancy, history, science, language, the arts. Not these folks.

[3catwoman3]

3. Well, we know Rick Perry isn't...

...helpiing it any with his 1.88 average in his science classes. Where I went to school, if you got a D in a course in your major, you didn't get any credit for that class and had to take it over.