Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, one of the Ringwraiths of the capitalist boyz' league (coughKochcough), has plans for the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin:
Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget calls for essentially removing the public service language from the University of Wisconsin System's mission to focus more on workforce development, according to language released Wednesday morning.
Is the objective of a university to create worker drones? Other hilarious changes in the mission statement include removing the goal of searching for the truth.
Walker is a likely contender for the next US presidential elections. One day we may all learn how to please the firms best in our college careers! What an irritating thought.
Training people for jobs is obviously part of the job of universities. But the rewriting of the mission statement suggests a move away from the needs of the society on the whole and towards the needs of corporations.
Speaking of Scott Walker, here are his plans should he take over Washington, DC:
A Fort Dodge man asked Walker if he could use the same approach he used in “defeating unions” to take on liberals in Washington “and get some spending control bills and repeal Obamacare.”
“Absolutely,” Walker answered.
Destroying the unions is almost a done thing in this country. It's also pretty closely linked to the increasing income and wealth inequality and bad news in many different ways, however badly some unions have behaved. A person applying to be a janitor at a giant global firm cannot negotiate a contract as if both parties were the same size particles in some vat full of free-market ideals.
Clearly we need more of that.