07-12-2009, 03:06 PM
Now here is a news story that gives us two fun issues in one.
Diploma Mill Degrees For Firefighters Cost City $50,000
The first is the typical genius bureaucrats who pay off on bogus degrees, but don't bother setting any minimum standards for the degrees they pay off on. Then when somebody wakes up, the paper shufflers try to stick it to the teachers, cops or (in this case) firefighters who got paid.
Now there's a concept. If having accredited degrees is soooo incredibly important that you would gleefully ruin the lives of the public servants who submitted non-accredited degrees for pay raises, doesn't it make sense to "clarify the rules" in the first place? Then your people know which degrees are or aren't kosher before they do the programs and submit.
Somehow private businesses don't seem to be plagued with this problem, so why is it that government paper shufflers can't get a handle on it? Could it be that when Big Brother is spending someone else's money he don't care? Or do people spending their own money just have more common sense?
Here's another idea. Maybe if pay raises were handed out to workers for actually doing the job they were hired to do instead of for going to school on the taxpayers' dime, the government geniuses wouldn't have to worry about this sort of thing in the first place.
The second issue is farther down in the story:
Nothing gives a story more credibility than a guess from a guy who couldn't find his ass with both hands.
Now we see that famous Princeton research methodology at work. Even the Dumbass Factory doesn't pay off on guesses, so it's a good thing he rounded up 15 people who were smart enough that they didn't need to guess to write his dissertation for him.
Wonder if he can guess how many posts he made at the gay boy pedophile-pandering porn front? Does he have a guess on how many mutant lab pigs his wife sold for food? Maybe he and Dayson can get together and guess which one of them is the bigger joke.
Diploma Mill Degrees For Firefighters Cost City $50,000
The first is the typical genius bureaucrats who pay off on bogus degrees, but don't bother setting any minimum standards for the degrees they pay off on. Then when somebody wakes up, the paper shufflers try to stick it to the teachers, cops or (in this case) firefighters who got paid.
Quote:The union filed a grievance over the city's efforts to recoup the money. Rather than go to arbitration, officials agreed to a compromise: No one would be held accountable so long as the city could clarify the rules to ensure that education incentives applied only to degrees from properly accredited schools.
Now there's a concept. If having accredited degrees is soooo incredibly important that you would gleefully ruin the lives of the public servants who submitted non-accredited degrees for pay raises, doesn't it make sense to "clarify the rules" in the first place? Then your people know which degrees are or aren't kosher before they do the programs and submit.
Somehow private businesses don't seem to be plagued with this problem, so why is it that government paper shufflers can't get a handle on it? Could it be that when Big Brother is spending someone else's money he don't care? Or do people spending their own money just have more common sense?
Here's another idea. Maybe if pay raises were handed out to workers for actually doing the job they were hired to do instead of for going to school on the taxpayers' dime, the government geniuses wouldn't have to worry about this sort of thing in the first place.
The second issue is farther down in the story:
Quote:Diploma mills crank out as many as 200,000 degrees a year and a number of those go to government workers, said George Gollin, a University of Illinois professor and board member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.
"My guess is they're generally going to use these degrees for promotion," he said.
Nothing gives a story more credibility than a guess from a guy who couldn't find his ass with both hands.
Now we see that famous Princeton research methodology at work. Even the Dumbass Factory doesn't pay off on guesses, so it's a good thing he rounded up 15 people who were smart enough that they didn't need to guess to write his dissertation for him.
Wonder if he can guess how many posts he made at the gay boy pedophile-pandering porn front? Does he have a guess on how many mutant lab pigs his wife sold for food? Maybe he and Dayson can get together and guess which one of them is the bigger joke.
