Maggie's Farm

A Harvard degree is good for one thing: networking – which does open doors. If you know the secret handshake, you get a leg up.

But ever since Harvard dispensed with letter grades in favor of Pass/Fail, worthwhile education in anything but the most rigorous of the hard sciences is completely bogus. Harvard is a has-been.

Barry Obama would have had to join the Young Republicans, and admit to the fact that CO2 is a harmless and beneficial trace gas, in order to have any possibility of failing to graduate. But he cruised through his four years and received a diploma, based on no notable accomplishments.

Try to find out anything exceptional that Obama accomplished on his own merit. He now has a law firm on retainer that threatens to sue anyone who wants to dig into his past claims of adequacy. If he had actually been an outstanding high school or college student, that fact would have been trumpeted 24/7/365. Wouldn't it?

There are still good colleges, but there are many more, like Harvard, that are simply degree mills; almost no one fails to graduate [in non-hard science courses] who simply goes through the motions, and regurgitates its Leftist nonsense.

And since preferential treatment is given to favored groups like women and minorities [Asians don't count, since their overwhelming academic excellence upsets the minority apple cart], the Ivy League schools are deliberately accepting under-acheivers, rather than the best of those who truly excelled in high school. How is that good??

America was built and became great based on merit. Like so much in our new Fabian society, the move toward equality of results is leading to a mediocre, failing America – which is expected to atone for its past excellence by handing over increased tax receipts from working citizens to corrupt countries and international organizations, simply because we have earned it, and they haven't.

The recent UN/IPCC payment proposal of $100 Billion PER YEAR is being seriously discussed by UN kleptocrats, as a starting point for American atonement for emitting CO2 – something we all exhale. What American in thier right mind would agree to that extortion? But, there it is, and Obama seems eager to comply.

The Left desperately wants America brought down. They demand it. But most Americans want American exceptionalism to triumph, because it has made life so much better for the common man.

That is why I despise Obama, and everything he stands for. He WANTS America to fail. And his Cloward-Piven strategy of economic destruction seems to be working: "education" demands ever more money – with zero academic results. We are truly on the road to ruin.