Ivory Towers

It's normal for anyone facing graduation to be anxious. Those with gumption take a deep breath and charge into the world. The timid remain in the cocoon and pile on advanced degrees. The hyper-timid become professors.

The Obama administration is so loaded with professors, it's a mystery there's anyone left to indoctrinate today's students (finally, a good unintended consequence). Asking professors to craft real-world solutions to problems in our economy is like asking a man to explain how childbirth feels. So why do the Progressives turn to academia so rapturously when they've never experienced business? One answer is that the Progressive seeking advice is, or was, another academician. Want to increase your own status? Simple, elevate your peers. What was Obama until he was thirty? Where do you think he'll wind up when he's tossed out?

Another, more probable answer, is that to Progressives, business experience is like a criminal record. While they accept the concept of rehabilitation in theory, they're locking up the silverware.

Progressives hysterically trumpet business failures like the financial collapse in 2008. Uncle Sugar made a boatload of money bailing out banks (some of which didn't want the money), but the banks are still in the cross hairs because the Democrats think it'll get votes. Where the country lost its keister was on General Motors, and Chrysler, and Fannie, and Freddie - jury's still out on AIG. Since the first two are trade union bailouts, they're praised. The other two are government failures, so they need more study. Blue ribbon panels, bi-partisan commissions and such. AIG is a hybrid. It was actually a Goldman Sachs bailout, which should put it in with the banks, but Goldman populates the government as heavily as academia; so... I'm sure a multimillion dollar grant to Yale would clear that one up.

Any Progressive reading this will toss it off as the anti-intellectualism of a mouth-breathing Conservative. Maybe, but I prefer to see myself as the little kid at the famous scene of a truck wedged under an overpass. Adults are huddled, some refer to books, some to rolled out papers, others point or look up. The kid, though, is pointing to the tires, saying, "What if you let out some air?"

Have some fun this November. Flatten some Democrats.