Posted on 06/01/2006 6:49:55 PM PDT by FairOpinion
A handful of college students received an unusual lesson in government studies today, courtesy of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. But the students got much more... including a hint into the governor's own work ethic.
Finally, what sounded like a motivational 'tough love' speech to a female student who lamented the struggle between a job to pay for her studies, and having time to actually complete her studies.
If anyone expected Schwarzenegger to talk about ways the government should help her, they got a very different answer.
"There are 24 hours in a day," the governor said. "You sleep 6 hours." The students laughed, but he wasn't kidding.
"You sleep more? Just remember, sleeping is overrated. Let's assume 6 hours. So you have 18 hours left. Now think about what you can accomplish in this 18 hours."
Schwarzenegger then recounted his own success story, from part-time student to bricklayer to bodybuilding champion to... well, you know. "I had the will to do it," he said.
"I think it is very important for kids not to just wait for their parents to take care of them, or for the school to take care of them, or for government to take care of them."
(Excerpt) Read more at kqed.org ...
NOw THAT's the kind of education students need!
Unfortunately, Arnold is probably one of the few politicians who can get away with it. Can you imagine the rat squeaks of "Marie Antoinette!" if just about any Republican said the same thing? Heck, they're even crucifying Cosby for intimating that perhaps folk need to knuckle down a bit.
BULLoney Arnold! As with ALL liberals, that is exactly what you believe in.
"On August 6th, while announcing his candidacy on the Jay Leno Show, Arnold said, "We want to make sure that our children have the books, that they have their place in the classroom. We want to make sure they have after school programs. We want to make sure that the mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure that the older folks have their care that they need. Everything has to be provided for the people. " "
Arnold Schwarzy sounds like a good Kennedy liberal. Definitley not a Reagan conservative.
Well, his point about effort is exactly the right point to make. Kids today seem to be playing video games, etc. instead of doing the work needed to succeed.
As for 6 hours of sleep -- he's flat wrong. Younger people need sleep more than older people. On average about 2 hours more. If anything, they should be sleeping at least 8 hours and eating much better than than they do right now. They would find they have a lot more energy than they currently have and can accomplish more in less hours since they will be mentally sharper.
I can't blame the Terminator for not knowing this as even many doctors are clueless about sleep medicine.
"Arnold called for mandatory health care for the whole state"
No, he didn't. As the article pointed out, he vetoed the bill that tried to mandate that employers provide healthcare.
The law that was recently passed in Mississipe (?) mandating that people BUY health insurance, the way there is mandated car insurance actually sounds interesting. Many of the uninsured in all states are people who can well afford insurance, they just prefer to not carry it, and let the rest of us pay for it -- this would make people pay their own way, and it would reduce the burden on the rest of us. Arnold didn't elaborate, he is studying the problem.
This is vastly preferable, than some universal health insurance, i.e. Hillarycare that CA Dems were trying to pass.
I meant Massachusetts -- I knew Mississippi was the wrong state...
He never said that the government should be the one to provide it.
Some people need to be reminded that Arnold is a Republican treading water in a very left wing state. You can't run and win the governership in CA today as a hard line conservative,
So as Ronald Reagan would say, (because he understood these things) remember the 11th commandment, "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."
Arnold's words speak for themselves. Get over it already. Arnold is a liberal Republican.
"Some people need to be reminded that Arnold is a Republican treading water in a very left wing state. "
Exaclty -- and he has been standing up to the leftwing Legislature time and time again.
Here is the latest example:
CA Senate approves minimum wage indexing over governor's objection (Gov will veto)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642081/posts
""Arnold's words speak for themselves. Get over it already. Arnold is a liberal Republican."
SO WAS REAGAN WHILE GOVERNOR OF CA! you in particular should know, that Ronald Reagan while governor of CA signed a bill making abortions easier to attain.
Whether he changed his mind later, or just knew what he had to do to keep his seat, Reagan was a Liberal Republican. OR maybe he was a Republican pretending to be liberal. Who knows.
Now for a history lesson on the so-called "Reagan 11th comandment".
Reagan did not create the phrase, Eleventh Commandment. Instead it came about during his 1966 run for the California Governorship.
"The personal attacks against me during the primary finally became so heavy that the state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican. It's a rule I followed during that campaign and have ever since."
Reagan actually broke his 11th commandment promise when he ran against PresFord for the GOP nomination in 1976. Reagan criticized Ford during the primary season, and right up through and including the GOP convention. Reagan was a gentleman and he wanted everyone to like him, but when the chips were on the table, Reagan was a tough SOB. Ford found out how tough Reagan was in 1976. George Bush found out how tough Reagan was in the 1980 campaign for President. Reagan wanted to WIN!
Arnold is NO Reagan.
I care what Reagan did as POTUS.
Reagan was Reagan, Arnold is Arnold, GW is GW, blah blah blah, etc,etc,etc.
I find Arnold personally a little too liberal for my tastes (what do you expect from a guy married to a Kennedy) but who cares in this instance, his answer to the little empty headed lib grad student was hilarious!
Grad student whine...terminated!
Except, out of the three men you mention, ONLY Reagan governed as a conservative. And Arnie will never be POTUS.
"what do you expect from a guy married to a Kennedy"
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Actually -- what you should consider is the pressure he most likely received to become a Democrat, being married to a Kennedy -- it would have been much easier for him to do that and run as a Democrat. The fact that he remained a Republican, ran and is governing as well as any Republican can do in leftist CA, faced with the leftist Legislature, is evidence of his strong Republican beliefs.
Actually the s-called conservatives, for whom nobody, but a Clinton or Angelides is good enough, hated Reagan during his time, because he "compromised".
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960104/posts
""When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it.
"Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
"I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."
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