Congress & Corporations Don’t Want to Invest in Super Smart Americans

[Robert Oak]

Yesterday, a very popular amendment that would have funded programs for super smart kids and created college scholarships for Americans was gutted by the Conferees, yes that’s our House representatives and Senators, to the H.R. 3043: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2008. The amendment would increase fees on H-1B employers by $3,500. About $3,000 of this fee increase would be targeted to $15,000 scholarships in math, science, engineering, and healthcare. About $500 of the fee increase would be dedicated to the Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Program.

Blog story on it here:

http://blog.noslaves.com/congress-corporations-dont-want-to-invest-in-super-smart-americans/

[Hydra]

1. Smart?

They don't want us smart- they the "elite" are the smart ones! They'll even torture and kill the rest of us smart people to make that true.

[Fresh_Start]

2. There's a huge anti intellectual bias in our society

so I'm not surprised by this

[PATRICK]

3. One huge factor

Intelligence or genius is not always inherited but we have a growing inheritance class in control of things. Therefore they have to be simple, status quo, protected by a club of medicocrity with use of easy means to substitute for competitive smarts. Use of people even dumber can follow this trajectory with brutality and illegality a monopoly of behavior against normal intelligent superiority. Then of course, there is moral intelligence or whatever you might be born with completely ruined by being born into entitled wealth. It kills initiative and personal effort. It makes it seem that anything is possible because of priviliege and money in itself.

Heads of banks or businesses can be C students in the samall. In the super rich picture people of personal quality and the real world are a threat to your offspring. Super intelligence is engaged with reality. Super wealth is engaged with delusions of possession.

[heidler1]

4. Most days I believe that the truly smart people set out to find contentment in

a reasonable amount of comfort and security while they let the rest of the world go by. Sure your own kids might try to embarrass you by saying things like "you could of been rich". Just smile and let it go, they just don't get it. The schools don't get it either, but believing that you know better is the point. The plan still requires that you learn how to make it happen.