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Townhall...
To America’s
hot-to-protest college students
By Neal Boortz
Not sure about you, but I was absolutely thrilled last week when
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed the legislation ending most
collective bargaining rights for government worker unions. The more
these government employee unions get slapped around by reality, the
happier I am.
I want to talk about the college students we saw protesting in
Wisconsin ... but first, let me remind you that this whole stink wasn’t
really about collective bargaining rights. The real foreign object in
the punch bowl for the unions and for Democrats was the end of dues
check-off; the end of the union’s ability to have dues deducted from
member’s paychecks rather than relying on the members to pay those dues
voluntarily. Some surveys have shown that over 50% of government union
members would stop paying their dues if they had to actually write
their own checks. Some of these union members pay more than $1000 a
year? Big money.
Think about this: When 50% of union members stop paying their dues this
means a lot less money in the pot to pay union leaders. Not only that …
it means much less money for union leaders to donate to political
parties. Last year about 46% of union members in Wisconsin voted
Republican, yet the government worker unions sent 93% of all union
campaign contributions to Democrats. Maybe those union members might
want to stop paying dues if the contributions are going to go to a
political party they don’t support! This would certainly not be good
news for Democrats … and now perhaps you have a clearer understanding
of just why The Community Organizer sent his “Organizing for America”
troops to Wisconsin to keep things in check!
OK … now for the college students. Surely you saw them at the protests
last week. For the most part their more cogent moments were spent
standing in the Wisconsin Capital waving their fists in the air and
screaming “Shame! Shame! Shame!” Now you gotta love a bunch of college
students yelling “shame.” The benefits of higher education on display.
Shame? Just how much under-age drinking, bong hits and
Gawd-knows-what-else went on in Madison the night before?
I’m here to help. I’m here to speak for you and to send a message to
these college students -- with your permission of course. If you agree
that I have spoken for you then just forward this column by email to a
favorite college student of yours. You can also print this and send it
by snail-mail. The USPS could use the cash. Here we go:
To America’s hot-to-protest college students:
With all due respect … would you please just …..
Sit down and shut the hell up!
Have you ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? It really ought to be
one of the first things you study in college. Wikipedia has an entry
for you to read if you want to actually learn something. Here’s your
link! Dunning-Kruger is about illusory superiority … illusory because a
person rates their ability much higher than it actually is. This would
pretty much address your pompous positioning in Madison ... this idea
that since you are now an actual college student you suddenly are
imbued with some superior knowledge that other people – if they just
realized how brilliant you are – should tap for the benefit of all
mankind. You, and only you, had all the answers to the union vs. the
taxpayers impasse in Wisconsin. Congratulations.
You really need to – like -- get a grip on your bad selves. You and the
rest of your pampered protestor posse are, at best, three or four years
away from your parent’s complete control. You’re still not on your own.
Since leaving home you have like existed in the protected environment
of a college campus where harsh punishment awaits the slightest
utterance that might like hurt your feelings or cause “offense,” God
forbid.
Tell you what: When you’ve like been away from your mommies for a
while; when you’ve shown that you can handle the rigors of academia …
and, most important, when you’ve actually like spent some time on your
own like earning your own living, taking care of your own needs, filing
out your own tax forms, and living free of the parental and academic
umbilical cord … then maybe we’ll be willing to listen to something you
have to say. Until then, please like spare us the spectacle of your
moronic moral exhibitionism. Simply put, you don’t have a clue. You
know it, and we know it. We also know that your participation in these
protests is seen by you as some sort of a like right of passage. Maybe
you should try passing some classes instead of passing your ignorance
off to the taxpayers who are shouldering the cost for a huge part of
whatever education you will actually receive before the harsh, cold
winds of reality hit you right in the face.
If you really want something to do … gather together the student body
presidents from our country’s 100 largest universities and go over
there and like fix Haiti. Do that and maybe we’ll listen. Till then …
well, just go back and like read the bold print.
Read it at Townhall
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