Exactly what this country needs!

Ladies and gentlemen, the idiotically-named Mitt Romney and his brilliant new ideas!

“I like the idea of linking the level of support that we’re able to provide to young people going to college to the contributions they’re going to make to our society,” Romney said.

What? Seriously, what does this mean? Has he developed a magical way of predicting for sure that someone who gets a degree in, say, philosophy or English will contribute less to society than someone who gets a degree in engineering? Who contributes more, the mechanics who keep a city's public transportation system running or the guy with a business degree who oversees the finances of said system?

I joke about my major* being useless, yes. But one: it's really not. Studying things like logic and rhetoric actually do have practical applications (critical thinking? decision making? communicating with people?). And two, how the hell does he propose we preemptively quantify how much someone is going to contribute to society based on what they study in school? That's so flawed on so many levels it burns the brain.

I can't find it yet online, but I'd be rather interested in finding out what Romney got his undergrad degree in. All I can find is that he got a BA from BYU, but nothing saying what.

*or lack thereof, but that just confuses people when I phrase it that way.