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Texas A&M Commencement Address –students gave a standing ovation; faculty were deathly silent!
Ventura County Tea Party ^ | May 29 2012 | Neil Bortz

Posted on 08/04/2012 5:36:05 AM PDT by IbJensen

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It’s a great speech everyone should memorize. And when anyone talks about the rich it should be noted that usually the rich need to hire people to become rich and stay rich. That doesn’t click in people’s minds and it’s the reason that they don’t think of the rich as job producers.


21 posted on 08/04/2012 8:08:02 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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In other words, the rich don't get rich by themselves. They have to hire people. The phraseology has to be right to effectively teach people.

And it is nice to bash liberal professors. They deserve it. He uses the phrase those who can't do, teach. But there is something to be said for those who teach effectively. Some just don't have the skill.

22 posted on 08/04/2012 8:20:25 AM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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Your link says, “Absolutely best commencement speech ever written— but never delivered.”

“speech is from a book Neal Bortz wrote in 1998, and NOT AN ACTUAL SPEECH HE recently gave at TEXAS A&M”

So I’m guessing he didn’t really get a standing ovation, given that he never delivered this speech.

Great read though. I was really with him all the way until I found that your link said he never delivered the speech. Shame. It would be something to see this speech delivered to a bunch of starry-eyed, mush-minded liberal students. Be something 20 years later if they ever thought back on it.

Being that it is a fantasy commencement, it is still a great read for a conservative. Must read, really.


23 posted on 08/04/2012 3:34:59 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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“In other words, the rich don’t get rich by themselves. They have to hire people.”

If POS Barrie gets wind of that he’ll say that is what he meant, and that he supports small business owners....while raping them with his union and government thugs.


24 posted on 08/05/2012 7:08:13 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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mark


25 posted on 08/05/2012 7:30:19 AM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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