Posted on 06/02/2008 3:20:00 PM PDT by prairiebreeze
EVERY YEAR ABOUT THIS TIME, big-government liberals stand up in front of college commencement crowds across the country and urge the graduates to do the noblest thing possible -- become big-government liberals.
That isn't how they phrase it, of course. Commencement speakers express great reverence for "public service," as distinguished from narrow private "greed." There is usually not the slightest sign of embarrassment at this self-serving celebration of the kinds of careers they have chosen -- over and above the careers of others who merely provide us with the food we eat, the homes we live in, the clothes we wear and the medical care that saves our health and our lives.
What I would like to see is someone with the guts to tell those students: Do you want to be of some use and service to your fellow human beings? Then let your fellow human beings tell you what they want -- not with words, but by putting their money where their mouth is.
You want to see more people have better housing? Build it! Become a builder or developer-- if you can stand the sneers and disdain of your classmates and professors who regard the very words as repulsive.
Would you like to see more things become more affordable to more people? Then figure out more efficient ways of getting thousands of things from the producers to the consumers at a lower cost. That's what a man named Richard Sears did a century ago. In the process he rose from near poverty to become one of the richest men around.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
History shows that the younger crowd lean towards the Liberal side..............until they graduate from college. Then they see how their world really is and go to the conservative side. Some never change and stay in lala land, expecting everyone to serve them.
McLame would guarantee a win if he would pick sowell as VP, but I know he is too clueless to even consider it.
Chuchill once said “if you are not a liberal when you are 20 you have no heart, if you are not a conservative at 40 you have no brain”
Her message in a nutshell, after the most boring and rambling speech I've ever sat through, was girls go out there and do your best but don't waste your life chasing your dreams because dreams are elusive and they never come true.
So insightful, so inspiring.
mark
Sowell is 6 years older. He would be older if elected than Ronald Reagan was when he retired from the presidency. There's no way Republicans would nominate a ticket with two candidates over 70.
Thomas Sowell for President!!
Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.
Nobody says it better than Thomas Sowell.
He a Walter Williams could do a country wide town hall tour. It would be great.
My daughter graduated college last year and with no small amount of trepidation I prepared to listen to one of the co-founders of YouTube give the main commencement address. (He was a graduate of the university a couple of years back and of course a mega-kazillionaire)
However I was pleasantly surprised to find myself enjoying his speech which was well delivered and especially the story of YouTube itself and their journey with bringing it into existence.
I’d expected to hear a young idealistic liberal semi-rant but didn’t.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2011827/posts
Yep, that’s good. Thanks for the link
I mean, it's timeless and all that ...
What clued me was when he mentioned statistics from the beginning of the century, and he was talking about 1900.
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