Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Fox Host’s Walz Attack Backfires BIG TIME" video.

I'm Australian and had to reply that to believe that I heard what I heard. I went to college at U. Illinois so I know the Midwest reasonably well. Do you get how much this makes my degree look bad? It used to be that the rest of the world looked UP to the American education system. Then we kind of wondered when a lot of American's couldn't find America, let alone Europe or Russia or China on a map of the world. Now your media people can't figure out which city is in which state.
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@richardvinsen2385 Simple answer - scholarship. Its now one of my life goals that if I get lucky (financially speaking) then some other kids will get to have what I got. There's one downside to the scholarship system. When you're in your late teens early 20s you just don't have the life experience to appreciate how FORTUNATE you are. I distinguish the difference between fortunate and lucky as: Anyone can be lucky over anything, but it takes appreciation of that luck to turn it into being fortunate. Like many others I was lucky to get that scholarship but remained lucky because I was too young to appreciate it. These days with an extra 35+ years of life I consider myself fortunate because I can now appreciate it. I did aerospace engineering during Reagans Star Wars era so without that scholarship there was no way for any non-American to get into that course because it was so oversubscribed at that time. It annoyed the crap out of me that I had to take these darned humanities courses because there were people who claimed it would make better people out of us engineers. I was wrong and they were right. These days I am finding those classes to be incredibly useful because that stuff helps. For example - on of and maybe the single biggest issue in the world right now is the energy crisis. Forget everything else, without energy everything collapses. Thanks to having done ECON-101 I can explain what went wrong. The energy crisis was caused 100% by economists who thought they could manage the energy systems of the world the same way they managed other things based on free market ideology. Thanks to having done classes like ECON-101 I can explain why that was never going to work because an energy supply system is fundamentally NOT like a supermarket or the stock market. In a supermarket or the stock market there's choice in abundance. You can choose this milk that milk, this meat that meat, these chips, this chips,...... etc. There's no choice in the electricity supply because there's there's only 1 energy grid your house can connect to. Yanis Varoufakis the famous Greek Economist explained that a while back and it also applies to water and wate water. Could you imagine what the cost would be to build and maintain multiple energy grids and water systems in parallel so people could have choice. So the free market model is impossible to make work with energy and water because it can't give the basic choices needed to make it work. Sorry but the free market economists caused the energy crisis, not the War in Ukraine or anything else. But try being an engineer and explaining that to an economist. You have a better chance of herding cats.
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