Reply #62: Liberal Elite are Texas professors [View All]

[Yupster]

who have a completely privatized social security system called the "Optional Retirement Program" where they can invest their entire 12.8 % that most of us put into social security into a myriad of mutual funds of their own choosing while they will forcefully argue that the world would collapse if the rest of us did 1/3 of what they've been doing for years.

I wouldn't agree to anything more than a token 1 % experiment in privatization, but I work with these guys everyday, and a more condescending and difficult group I have never had to work with.

For years I went over to a professor's house who was a self professed communist, and a hard-drinking one at that. I had to listen to him complaining that his $ 700,000 account only grew $ 60,000 last year when he wanted $ 100,000 growth, and no, he was not interested in the irony of a communist taking advantage of a program available to only 1 % of the population and complaining it wasn't making him rich enough.

And while I'm ranting, the other problem I've had with professors is the problem that a laser like knowledge of one subject does not assume a similar knowledge of other unrelated subjects, though there's such a level of condescention that I believe some of the people actually think it does.

If you're walking down the hall of the fine arts faculty and have a question about payroll taxes or health insurance, look for a janitor to ask. He probably has a part-time business on the side and has faced such issues. He is much more likely to have a clue than the composition professor who looks down at the custodian, and me in such disdain.

I taught college myself, but if you're asking about liberal elite, I could show you the textbook definition by introducing you to one certain professor of voice who doesn't know the difference between a municipal bond and a muddy bandaid, but with one condescending smile over her glasses would end the discussion in a second.

Sorry for the rant, but there's probably no one who's still reading by now anyway.