PIC: GOP 7 step program of governance

[yurbud]

The only "problem" with this analysis is it leaves out the right's definition of problem: anything that impedes the free flow of all cash and property into the hands of the very few.

[KansDem]

1. Where's "5?"

On edit: "5. If the problem remains, start 'austerity measures'"

[toddwv]

3. There is no number 5

The Koch Brothers bought it.

[KansDem]

4. Ha!!

Wonder how much they paid for it. No, wait...dont' want to know. Probably just pulled it out of their change pocket...

[yurbud]

2. this must have been done by a fellow liberal arts major.

we have trouble with math.

[HopeHoops]

5. Just hang on a darn tootin' minute there! I've got degrees in Philosophy AND Mathematics.

And yes, both are BA degrees, but to be fair the only real difference between a BA and a BS in math was whether or not you took a foreign language. I took two years each of Russian and German.

[yurbud]

6. I managed to get the only BS in English at my college

I took a year of spanish and a year of french, but didn't have two of either, so I just harassed the matriculation person until she said "whatever" and gave me the diploma.

[HopeHoops]

7. I BS in English all the time.

I know a little Spanish and ASL, but even after two years of French in grade school I still couldn't figure out where one word ended and the next began. It just sounded like a stream of mush to me. I finally decided that "Je ne parle pas français" was the most important sentence I ever learned in that language. I can still read German and Russian but my vocabulary has gotten rusty and my handwriting in both has deteriorated to the point where it is almost as bad as my handwriting in English, which turns to Swahili within minutes of laying pen to paper. Fortunately computers produce legible output and I still type about 80 wpm.

I'm surprised that they required two years of the same language. My university only required 12 credits of foreign language for a BA, mix and match if you want. I ended up taking 24 credits which qualified as a "concentration" but not a "minor" because they didn't recognize that designation. I almost got a triple major (Physics). The only class I didn't have was "Electricity and Magnetism" because the only professor who taught it simply wrote formulas on the board and was incapable of explaining the context or even how to get a CLUE what the context might be, even one-on-one. The textbook was also a graduate level work that clearly presumed you already had a solid foundation in the subject matter. I ended up dropping the class so I could concentrate on others. A triple major would have been cool and I'm still sort of pissed about that class.

Linguistics seem to be a family trait. My middle daughter got the senior award for language a year ago. She took four years of Latin and honors English, and I think one year of French and two of German. Her Spanish was from middle school and didn't factor into the award. My youngest was one of two from the HS that were inducted into the National Spanish Honors Society this year. She's damn close to fluent. The eldest is okay with Spanish but her real interest is ASL and she's been to Europe three times already (almost 21 y.o.). She just spent the last semester in Budapest, but she's also been to Austria, the Czech Republic, Italy, Turkey, and Greece. I don't count England because she just had connecting flights at Hethrow. We all know a lot of Korean because my wife and daughters have been in Tang Soo Do for over a decade (wife 3rd degree, daughters all 2nd degree) and we have Korean friends.

Languages are fun!

[yurbud]

8. French is one of the few languages that's easier to speak than understand

while it has complicated verb conjugations like every other language, they are all pronounced the same: drop off the last seven consonants and slur: "Je vuh," "Je bluh," etc.