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In reply to the discussion: Two Things I Will Remember GH Bush for: 1) his Eternal Hoax on the Public and 2) how he conceals it [View all]anobserver2
(923 posts)When you're writing a brief little opinion piece sometimes there are errors. I have changed "girl's" to "women's."
Now, here is a task for you: go out and interview some real life economists, as I did.
Ask them how plausible it is for an accredited university, or an Ivy League, to offer a 4-year degree in economics
in only "2-1/2" years.
Then tell me: how hard they laughed at your question.
And - why they said it's impossible. And then post the reason they gave you here.
In addition, write to the Yale Economics Department as I did.
See what they say about the history of their undergraduate economics department.
Then, post here.
Thanks, and have a good day.
(By the way, Yale does offer an "accelerated" degree program for undergrads in Latin American Studies - it's only 3 years,
And it does not accept CLEP tests, or AP test scores, or any transfer credits from anywhere. If you speak with people who
develop actual accelerated programs, you will find, as I did, that "3 years" is the absolute minimum. And, yes, I know that now you can get a Bachelor's in one year online from blah blah university or whatever diploma mill you wish.)
As for the CIA checking his background? Here's what I would say: Pretend you are head of the CIA. You discover the new CIA director is a fraud and is faking a college degree. Explain how disclosing that to the public will help the CIA.
As I mentioned, once these frauds win elected office - it's too late. No one will go back in time and disclose the fraud in public service. In the private sector though, it happens all the time, that a company discovers its CEO is a fraud and the stockholders and others want that fraud OUSTED.
But in public service? Well, every dime GH Bush collected, is, in my view, the result of fraud, and he and his estate should have to pay back the millions he obtained in public money salary and public money pensions.
Because that money is taxpayer money. Perhaps some do not mind doling out millions to fraud in public service, but I will bet you therer are voters, from all sides of the political spectrum, who get pretty pissed off when they discover their taxpayer dollars are paying the salary and pensions of people faking college degrees. That is why, in the private sector, a CEO will be outed, ousted, and the media reports it. But in the public sector? Do we really want to upset voters?
I guess not. But it remains very upsetting to me, and I will guess, to anyone else who worked hard in school and worked hard to pay for an undergraduate degree as I did.
Very upsetting.