College students lack literacy for complex tasks

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    Originally Posted By gurgitoy2

    It's funny about Bush though. He just really, really, REALLY needed more public speaking courses in college! Ok, maybe he's actually pretty smart, but he just can't communicate that to save his life!

    I would have loved to see that woman's reaction to his Social Security response!
     
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    Originally Posted By cape cod joe

    George is our ONLY President to have an MBA from Harvard no less. Such is the hatred for him that my brother=in-law, a staunch Democrat and one of the top people at the World Bank who lives in Great Falls Va, started arguing and ranting and raving at me. I said but you went to Harvard for your MBA the same year as him. I said google it and to this day he hasn't admitted it.
    It's like people who love Bill Clinton so much that "He did not have sex with that woman" On talk shows I used to hear interviewers get that from Bill's friends and they'd say "But he admitted it" and they would argue with that!
    Some people are just plain nuts.
    Just like people say Clinton is not very bright. He's a Rhodes Scholar for crying out loud. It seems important to face the truth no matter what because at the end of the day, the tree does make noise when it falls even if we can't hear it.
     
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    Originally Posted By gurgitoy2

    I'm not saying he's not smart, he is just a VERY poor communicator.
     
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    Originally Posted By cape cod joe

    Sorry for the misunderstaning as I was corroborating you toy2. You hit the nail on the head with your non-partisan assessment. The truth. Good job!:)
     
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    Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder

    "he is just a VERY poor communicator."

    He's the worst public speaker at such a high level of exposure I've ever seen, bar none. If he does have any inherent intelligence, his oration betrays that. During the presidential debates, he looked like an absolute fool. And the jury is still out on whether he really wore a transmitter in the later debate.
     
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    Originally Posted By threeundertwo

    So what will happen? Will these inept/ illiterate graduates fall by the wayside due to natural selection? Or will companies have to sacrifice quality or pay for extra for remedial training?
     
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    Originally Posted By cape cod joe

    Kinda emotional and partisan aren't you Pass? Read Toy2's evaluation of our President and then read yours? :)
     
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    Originally Posted By cape cod joe

    To three
    My wife and I fired our 20 year old secretary about a year ago because she couldn't even file our 2000 customers files alphabetically! So we saved the 40 grand a year and have bought over 2 mill in Orlando real estate. We do work much harder but we don't have to do training, correct mistakes etc.
     
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    Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder

    I know I'm going to regret this, but can you explain what Bush was trying to say in the quote in post 18, joe?
     
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    Originally Posted By cape cod joe

    Why the regrets? I have no clue except maybe he was doing his Yogi Berra impersonation?:)
    Isn't cash as good as money?
     
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    Originally Posted By TomSawyer

    CCJ, I hope your wife proofreads your letters and emails for you... :)
     
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    Originally Posted By threeundertwo

    cape code joe: my 7 year old twins can alphabetize to 3 letters. You can hire them, they'll work for french fries (and mass quantities of ketchup).
     
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    Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder

    "I have no clue"

    Exactly. Bush didn't have a clue, nor does anyone else. It should scare people, even the dyed in the wool faithful a little bit, that Bush has so much trouble explaining just about anything. If this was a student taking an oral exam, they'd be flunked.
     
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    Originally Posted By cape cod joe

    Okay--------I'll say it again! I am a verbal person and received a D in my University of Dayton Freshman writing course.
    I also type real fast have 2 kids here wanting to go to Ninety Nine for dinner, low blood sugar from playing golf! Get the pic Tom? That sounded almost like a friendly post Tom. Maybe you got the Yogi Berra joke?
     
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    Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder

    We should start a thread wherein we can all detail our real estate holdings, where we live, how much money we make, and then see if it has any correlation whatsoever to anything posted here.
     
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    Originally Posted By TomSawyer

    lol
     
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    Originally Posted By peeaanuut

    i rent a room, own a 95 mitsubishi, it leaks oil. I shot a 98 the other day on the 3 par 9 hole. I make less than the poverty level and never went to college. heck I would work for french fries too.
     
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    Originally Posted By cmpaley

    >>i rent a room, own a 95 mitsubishi, it leaks oil. I shot a 98 the other day on the 3 par 9 hole. I make less than the poverty level and never went to college. heck I would work for french fries too.<<

    There's that awesome Bush economy for ya!
     
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    Originally Posted By StillThePassHolder

    nut nut nut separate thread, man!
     
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    Originally Posted By imadisneygal

    RE: post 35: STPH, we should also detail any relatives we have who have jobs we think other people might find impressive.
     
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