BIG MONEY MEANS BIG EDUCATION?

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Learn how to use Big Money.

Rich guys are smart guys.

If you learned that in school, you might be rich, too.

What if you got rich another way?

That’s when you you slide up on smart people and ask, “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”

The joke is pretty funny, but not everyone laughs at the same time.

A rich man protects his wealth from those smart enough to find a way to whittle it down.

Has anyone got a handle on that, yet?

Remember the time a rich guy pulled a trucker’s lid on to convince people neither smart nor rich he was one of them?

We all had a good laugh. Until it wasn’t funny.

This was a man who said he could fool most of the people some of the time.

He had just enough time to make it work.

The message reached Billy Bob sweating it out in his Carolina home, cleaning his weaponry and talking about taking ‘his’ country back.

It also reached Bob in Michigan cleaning his rifles for the fall hunting season.

Two different men, lots in common. One voted, one didn’t.

Billy Bob in Carolina voted to preserve his way of life.

Bob in Michigan didn’t vote because the election results he wanted were already in the bag.

Except that’s not how it works. This is where Big Money comes in.

Do you recall Microsoft Bill Gates buying TV time to stare into a camera and ask, “Do you understand what this election means? If you do, vote. If you don’t, vote. That’s it, vote like it means something.”

How about Amazon Jeff Bezos on the screen saying, “Deliver your vote in person, I did. Just vote.”

Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffett could have added a forceful moment with, “In all of my life I’ve never felt it more important to vote than I have this year, and I’ve had a long life.”

Facebook Mark Zuckerberg didn’t say, “This is a vote for the future, one way or the other. Vote like your future depends on it.”

Finally, to round out the top five on Forbes money list, Oracle Larry Ellison didn’t team up with the other four and put out a shared message like, “We vote because we’re Americans, right guys, we’re all Americans? Vote like America matters.”

What are the chances of billionaires jumping in behind one of their own? Especially when he makes statements that will add to their bank?

Oregon’s Boomer Blogger says do good with what you’ve got, but you need to work to override the educational deficit of big money.

New education boss, and fellow billionaire, Betsey DeVos carries a Bachelors Degree from Calvin College.

This in a time of Masters Degree minimums for public school teachers.

Image via Teachers Resources

From wiki:

Because Calvin is a liberal arts college, it has established a core curriculum with three parts: Gateway, Competencies and Studies, and Capstone. The average student takes 45 hours of core courses in the course of a four-year degree at Calvin.

When students matriculate into Calvin, they begin their studies with a first-year, Core Gateway seminar which introduces students to issues of learning, identity, vocation, discernment, and awareness through discussions and presentations. Students also take Developing a Christian Mind (DCM) in the discipline of their choice, a course which (through the lenses of various academic disciplines) introduces the idea of Christian worldview and faith-based engagement with culture.

One more reminder: “If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich like me?”