The Best Commencement Address Ever!

[Greenbeard]

Obamacare is private markets?

Indeed!

 

[The T]

Obamacare is private markets?

Indeed!

NO...it is manipulation by government fiat.

 

[Big Fitz]

Obamacare is private markets?

Indeed!

I say again.

Buffalo chips
Meadow Muffins
Deer Droppings
Cow Patties
Bull Flops
Horse Shit.

It's as free private markets as military volunteerism. You and you. Get up here you're volunteered.

In case it isn't obvious. Your statement is, for lack of a less direct term, a lie.

 

[Misty]

Love it!!!!!

 

[PoliticalChic]

Neal Boortz posted this on his on his website...I wish he had given it...it's a home run!!!

1. … you can bet your tassels…[y]ou may not like much of what I have to say, and that’s fine. You will remember it though. Especially after about 10 years out there in the real world. This, it goes without saying, does not apply to those of you who will seek your careers and your fortunes as government employees.

2. Now, I realize that most of you consider yourselves Liberals. In fact, you are probably very proud of your liberal views. You care so much. You feel so much. You want to help so much. After all, you’re a compassionate and caring person, aren’t you now? Well, isn’t that just so extraordinarily special. Now, at this age, is as good a time as any to be a liberal; as good a time as any to know absolutely everything. You have plenty of time, starting tomorrow, for the truth to set in.



3. So here are the first assignments for your initial class in reality: Pay attention to the news, read newspapers, and listen to the words and phrases that proud Liberals use to promote their causes. Then, compare the words of the left to the words and phrases you hear from those evil, heartless, greedy conservatives.

a. From the Left you will hear “I feel.” From the Right you will hear “I think.” From the Liberals you will hear references to groups — The Blacks, the Poor, the Rich, the Disadvantaged, the Less Fortunate. From the Right you will hear references to individuals. On the Left you hear talk of group rights; on the Right, individual rights. That about sums it up, really: Liberals feel. Liberals care. They are pack animals whose identity is tied up in group dynamics. Conservatives think — and, setting aside the theocracy crowd, their identity is centered on the individual.

4. Liberals feel that their favored groups have enforceable rights to the property and services of productive individuals. Conservatives, I among them I might add, think that individuals have the right to protect their lives and their property from the plunder of the masses. In college you developed a group mentality, but if you look closely at your diplomas you will see that they have your individual names on them. Not the name of your school mascot, or of your fraternity or sorority, but your name. Your group identity is going away. Your recognition and appreciation of your individual identity starts now.

a. If, by the time you reach the age of 30, you do not consider yourself to be a conservative, rush right back here as quickly as you can and apply for a faculty position. These people will welcome you with open arms. They will welcome you, that is, so long as you haven’t developed an individual identity.




5. Soon, you are going to get a full time job. You’re also going to get a lifelong work partner. This partner isn’t going to help you do your job. This partner is just going to sit back and wait for payday. This partner doesn’t want to share in your effort, but in your earnings.

a. Your new lifelong partner is actually an agent; an agent representing a strange and diverse group of people; an agent for every teenager with an illegitimate child; an agent for a research scientist who wanted to make some cash answering the age-old question of why monkeys grind their teeth. An agent for some poor demented hippie who considers herself to be a meaningful and talented artist, but who just can’t manage to sell any of her artwork on the open market.

b. As you become successful it will seize about 40% of everything you earn. And no, I’m sorry, there just isn’t any way you can fire this agent of plunder,…



6. …here are some ideas you need to expunge as soon as possible. These ideas may work well in academic environment, but they fail miserably out there in the real world.
a. Diversity! You have been taught that the real value of any group of people …is based on diversity. This is a favored liberal ideal because diversity is based not on an individuals abilities or character, but on a person’s identity and status as a member of a group….No matter what your professors have taught you over the last four years, you are about to learn that diversity is absolutely no replacement for excellence, ability, and individual hard work.

b. Now, “rights.” We have witnessed an obscene explosion of so-called “rights” in the last few decades, usually emanating from college campuses…. Forget those rights! I’ll tell you what your rights are. You have a right to live free, and to the results of 60% -75% of your labor. I’ll also tell you have no right to any portion of the life or labor of another….The people who have been telling you about all the rights you have are simply exercising one of theirs – the right to be imbeciles. Their being imbeciles didn’t cost anyone else either property or time. It’s their right, and they exercise it brilliantly.




7. Now for the “less fortunate.” To imply that one person is homeless, destitute, dirty, drunk, spaced out on drugs, unemployable, and generally miserable because he is “less fortunate” is to imply that a successful person – one with a job, a home and a future – is in that position because he or she was “fortunate.” The dictionary says that fortunate means “having derived good from an unexpected place.” There is nothing unexpected about deriving good from hard work. There is also nothing unexpected about deriving misery from choosing drugs, alcohol, and the street.

a. If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of “fortune” or “luck,” then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes. …It’s not luck, my friends. It’s choice. One of the greatest lessons I ever learned was in a book by Og Mandino, entitled, “The Greatest Secret in the World.” The lesson? Very simple: “Use wisely your power of choice.”

b. Envy is a powerful emotion. …Politicians use envy to get votes and power. And they keep that power by promising the envious that the envied will be punished: “The rich will pay their fair share of taxes if I have anything to do with it.” The truth is that the top 10% of income earners in this country pays almost 50% of all income taxes collected.

c. Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don’t see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.
Texas A&M Commencement Address – The students gave a standing ovation; the faculty were deathly silent! « The Ghostfighters

Your definition of a highly successful person, not mine. Many of those losers this guy is talking about are home at 530 coaching there sons or daughters little league team. They invest there time in their family which provides far more riches than any paycheck can provide. You take your 70 hour workweeks and have fun. I will be taking my family on vacation and twenty years after your dead and gone, no one at the corporation you worked at will remember how hard you worked or even who you were, but my sons and daughters will always have the memory of a father that was there for them.

I have no problem with your post, nor with your choice.

Neither would Boortz, as I understand it.

The problem is with those who make other choices, such as you and I, which may not result in material wealth....and then demand a portion of the wealth accrued by the one whose choices provided same.

Surely you see the rectitude.


You don't have any claim on legally gained wealth of other folks.
None.

 

[The T]

Neal Boortz posted this on his on his website...I wish he had given it...it's a home run!!!

1. … you can bet your tassels…[y]ou may not like much of what I have to say, and that’s fine. You will remember it though. Especially after about 10 years out there in the real world. This, it goes without saying, does not apply to those of you who will seek your careers and your fortunes as government employees.

2. Now, I realize that most of you consider yourselves Liberals. In fact, you are probably very proud of your liberal views. You care so much. You feel so much. You want to help so much. After all, you’re a compassionate and caring person, aren’t you now? Well, isn’t that just so extraordinarily special. Now, at this age, is as good a time as any to be a liberal; as good a time as any to know absolutely everything. You have plenty of time, starting tomorrow, for the truth to set in.



3. So here are the first assignments for your initial class in reality: Pay attention to the news, read newspapers, and listen to the words and phrases that proud Liberals use to promote their causes. Then, compare the words of the left to the words and phrases you hear from those evil, heartless, greedy conservatives.

a. From the Left you will hear “I feel.” From the Right you will hear “I think.” From the Liberals you will hear references to groups — The Blacks, the Poor, the Rich, the Disadvantaged, the Less Fortunate. From the Right you will hear references to individuals. On the Left you hear talk of group rights; on the Right, individual rights. That about sums it up, really: Liberals feel. Liberals care. They are pack animals whose identity is tied up in group dynamics. Conservatives think — and, setting aside the theocracy crowd, their identity is centered on the individual.

4. Liberals feel that their favored groups have enforceable rights to the property and services of productive individuals. Conservatives, I among them I might add, think that individuals have the right to protect their lives and their property from the plunder of the masses. In college you developed a group mentality, but if you look closely at your diplomas you will see that they have your individual names on them. Not the name of your school mascot, or of your fraternity or sorority, but your name. Your group identity is going away. Your recognition and appreciation of your individual identity starts now.

a. If, by the time you reach the age of 30, you do not consider yourself to be a conservative, rush right back here as quickly as you can and apply for a faculty position. These people will welcome you with open arms. They will welcome you, that is, so long as you haven’t developed an individual identity.




5. Soon, you are going to get a full time job. You’re also going to get a lifelong work partner. This partner isn’t going to help you do your job. This partner is just going to sit back and wait for payday. This partner doesn’t want to share in your effort, but in your earnings.

a. Your new lifelong partner is actually an agent; an agent representing a strange and diverse group of people; an agent for every teenager with an illegitimate child; an agent for a research scientist who wanted to make some cash answering the age-old question of why monkeys grind their teeth. An agent for some poor demented hippie who considers herself to be a meaningful and talented artist, but who just can’t manage to sell any of her artwork on the open market.

b. As you become successful it will seize about 40% of everything you earn. And no, I’m sorry, there just isn’t any way you can fire this agent of plunder,…



6. …here are some ideas you need to expunge as soon as possible. These ideas may work well in academic environment, but they fail miserably out there in the real world.
a. Diversity! You have been taught that the real value of any group of people …is based on diversity. This is a favored liberal ideal because diversity is based not on an individuals abilities or character, but on a person’s identity and status as a member of a group….No matter what your professors have taught you over the last four years, you are about to learn that diversity is absolutely no replacement for excellence, ability, and individual hard work.

b. Now, “rights.” We have witnessed an obscene explosion of so-called “rights” in the last few decades, usually emanating from college campuses…. Forget those rights! I’ll tell you what your rights are. You have a right to live free, and to the results of 60% -75% of your labor. I’ll also tell you have no right to any portion of the life or labor of another….The people who have been telling you about all the rights you have are simply exercising one of theirs – the right to be imbeciles. Their being imbeciles didn’t cost anyone else either property or time. It’s their right, and they exercise it brilliantly.




7. Now for the “less fortunate.” To imply that one person is homeless, destitute, dirty, drunk, spaced out on drugs, unemployable, and generally miserable because he is “less fortunate” is to imply that a successful person – one with a job, a home and a future – is in that position because he or she was “fortunate.” The dictionary says that fortunate means “having derived good from an unexpected place.” There is nothing unexpected about deriving good from hard work. There is also nothing unexpected about deriving misery from choosing drugs, alcohol, and the street.

a. If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of “fortune” or “luck,” then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes. …It’s not luck, my friends. It’s choice. One of the greatest lessons I ever learned was in a book by Og Mandino, entitled, “The Greatest Secret in the World.” The lesson? Very simple: “Use wisely your power of choice.”

b. Envy is a powerful emotion. …Politicians use envy to get votes and power. And they keep that power by promising the envious that the envied will be punished: “The rich will pay their fair share of taxes if I have anything to do with it.” The truth is that the top 10% of income earners in this country pays almost 50% of all income taxes collected.

c. Speaking of earning, the revered 40-hour workweek is for losers. Forty hours should be considered the minimum, not the maximum. You don’t see highly successful people clocking out of the office every afternoon at five. The losers are the ones caught up in that afternoon rush hour. The winners drive home in the dark.
Texas A&M Commencement Address – The students gave a standing ovation; the faculty were deathly silent! « The Ghostfighters

Your definition of a highly successful person, not mine. Many of those losers this guy is talking about are home at 530 coaching there sons or daughters little league team. They invest there time in their family which provides far more riches than any paycheck can provide. You take your 70 hour workweeks and have fun. I will be taking my family on vacation and twenty years after your dead and gone, no one at the corporation you worked at will remember how hard you worked or even who you were, but my sons and daughters will always have the memory of a father that was there for them.

I have no problem with your post, nor with your choice.

Neither would Boortz, as I understand it.

The problem is with those who make other choices, such as you and I, which may not result in material wealth....and then demand a portion of the wealth accrued by the one whose choices provided same.

Surely you see the rectitude.


You don't have any claim on legally gained wealth of other folks.
None.

And poster 'Dutch' will be one of those screaming loudly in a job loss.

 

[Big Fitz]

But but but.... My good intentions have cash value.... right????

 

[The T]

But but but.... My good intentions have cash value.... right????

As long as it's from someone else's wallet.

 

[Dutch]

Your definition of a highly successful person, not mine. Many of those losers this guy is talking about are home at 530 coaching there sons or daughters little league team. They invest there time in their family which provides far more riches than any paycheck can provide. You take your 70 hour workweeks and have fun. I will be taking my family on vacation and twenty years after your dead and gone, no one at the corporation you worked at will remember how hard you worked or even who you were, but my sons and daughters will always have the memory of a father that was there for them.

I have no problem with your post, nor with your choice.

Neither would Boortz, as I understand it.

The problem is with those who make other choices, such as you and I, which may not result in material wealth....and then demand a portion of the wealth accrued by the one whose choices provided same.

Surely you see the rectitude.


You don't have any claim on legally gained wealth of other folks.
None.

And poster 'Dutch' will be one of those screaming loudly in a job loss.

Never lost a job in my life. No I would not be screaming loudly if it happened. I just took offense to the presenters broad based assumption that people who only work forty hours a week are "losers". Some professions are not all about the money. Some people do it because they love what they are doing. Police officers, fireman, and teachers are never going to get rich doing their jobs. Are they losers because because attaining more money is not their reason for living?

 

[francoHFW]

Booortz is a bought off POS- It's just too easy to make millions off the brainwashed dupes. Nobody said success is all luck DUH, but it certainly is an element, and certainly can be a veto power.- what a bunch of brainwashed morons/haters. Pubs pander to the rich and slowly ruin the non rich and the country (sig pp1) and lie, divide, hate monger, and distract the rubes nonstop (sig pp3).

I'll take Kurt Vonnegut's speech at my Hobart '74 ANY DAY. It's in his book of essays/short stories. Pubs suk. Total Pubcrappe for dupes/haters ONLY. Change the channel and save your soul. God is not amused by willful ignorance and hate.

Thanks for 9/11, the stupidest wars ever, and the DEPRESSION, morons.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I've always like Steve Jobs' '05 commencement address about life, and death, and about not worrying about connecting the dots of the pursuits and interests that bring joy and meaning to your life until after the fact.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

But a speech about disdaining those who think differently than you do on political issues is a close second, no doubt.

Perhaps you failed to understand this part:
"It’s not luck, my friends. It’s choice. One of the greatest lessons I ever learned was in a book by Og Mandino, entitled, “The Greatest Secret in the World.” The lesson? Very simple: “Use wisely your power of choice.”


And, if you believe that the choices that one make can be simply put as 'political issues,' then one of your many misunderstandings is exposed.


To help you out of the Liberal fog, let me provide a quote from the film "Monster" (2003)


"Lawyer: I see you're from Daytona Beach, all of that looks great, it must be wonderful. But can I tell you something? When the beach party is over, you don't get to say, "You know what? Now I think I'd like to have what everybody else has worked their entire life for." It doesn't work that way.

Aileen: Fuck you, man. Yeah, FUCK YOU! YOU DON'T FUCKIN' KNOW ME!

Lawyer: OK, great. That's great. See, now I'm so sorry I didn't hire you before. Leslie, could you please escort Miss... I don't even know her name because of course she doesn't have a resume... out."
Monster (2003) - Memorable quotes


To remind you of this excellent life-lesson, perhaps I should refer to you as Aileen in the future....

....would that be OK, Aileen?

 

[The T]

I have no problem with your post, nor with your choice.

Neither would Boortz, as I understand it.

The problem is with those who make other choices, such as you and I, which may not result in material wealth....and then demand a portion of the wealth accrued by the one whose choices provided same.

Surely you see the rectitude.


You don't have any claim on legally gained wealth of other folks.
None.

And poster 'Dutch' will be one of those screaming loudly in a job loss.

Never lost a job in my life. No I would not be screaming loudly if it happened. I just took offense to the presenters broad based assumption that people who only work forty hours a week are "losers". Some professions are not all about the money. Some people do it because they love what they are doing. Police officers, fireman, and teachers are never going to get rich doing their jobs. Are they losers because because attaining more money is not their reason for living?

And that's fine. and NO problem with it IF you're NOT a burden on the rest of society in the process.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You sure are on record defending ObamaCare, aren't you?

Indeed, precisely because I want private markets to remain front and center in our system. I find the (important) tweaks in the ACA much more desirable than any kind of government takeover.

"I want private markets to remain front and center in our system."


There are no 'private markets' under ObamaCare.
Only what totalitarians call 'private markets.'

 

[The T]

You sure are on record defending ObamaCare, aren't you?

Indeed, precisely because I want private markets to remain front and center in our system. I find the (important) tweaks in the ACA much more desirable than any kind of government takeover.

"I want private markets to remain front and center in our system."


There are no 'private markets' under ObamaCare.
Only what totalitarians call 'private markets.'

What they define. They know most will eventually balk and go out of business...which is the point OF ObamaCare.

Total control.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Obamacare is private markets?

Indeed!

I say again.

Buffalo chips
Meadow Muffins
Deer Droppings
Cow Patties
Bull Flops
Horse Shit.

It's as free private markets as military volunteerism. You and you. Get up here you're volunteered.

In case it isn't obvious. Your statement is, for lack of a less direct term, a lie.

I believe that our friend Aileen is paid by the administration to mouth said prevarications.
And earn it, she does.

 

[del]

Your definition of a highly successful person, not mine. Many of those losers this guy is talking about are home at 530 coaching there sons or daughters little league team. They invest there time in their family which provides far more riches than any paycheck can provide. You take your 70 hour workweeks and have fun. I will be taking my family on vacation and twenty years after your dead and gone, no one at the corporation you worked at will remember how hard you worked or even who you were, but my sons and daughters will always have the memory of a father that was there for them.

I have no problem with your post, nor with your choice.

Neither would Boortz, as I understand it.

The problem is with those who make other choices, such as you and I, which may not result in material wealth....and then demand a portion of the wealth accrued by the one whose choices provided same.

Surely you see the rectitude.


You don't have any claim on legally gained wealth of other folks.
None.

And poster 'Dutch' will be one of those screaming loudly in a job loss.

most people are upset when they lose their job, tommy.

if you'd ever worked, you'd know this.

does ssi still pay out for being a drunk? i thought they'd ended that.

 

[francoHFW]

So why do YOU portend such things as Healthcare is a liberty worthy to be taken over BY Government?

I've never been of the opinion that health care should be taken over by the government.

The dupes will fight to the death for their right to be summarily cut off, generally gouged, and killed by greedy BIG HEALTH. Keep those blinders on.

Romney/Ryan- "I know, let's cut taxes on the rich, destroy Medicare, and grow the military"- Absolute idiocy, the GOP platform dupes barely know about...

 

[PoliticalChic]

Booortz is a bought off POS- It's just too easy to make millions off the brainwashed dupes. Nobody said success is all luck DUH, but it certainly is an element, and certainly can be a veto power.- what a bunch of brainwashed morons/haters. Pubs pander to the rich and slowly ruin the non rich and the country (sig pp1) and lie, divide, hate monger, and distract the rubes nonstop (sig pp3).

I'll take Kurt Vonnegut's speech at my Hobart '74 ANY DAY. It's in his book of essays/short stories. Pubs suk. Total Pubcrappe for dupes/haters ONLY. Change the channel and save your soul. God is not amused by willful ignorance and hate.

Thanks for 9/11, the stupidest wars ever, and the DEPRESSION, morons.

OMG!

Another brilliant, incisive, well supported post!!!

How DO you manage the consistency that you do?


Thank you.
You may now recede back under your rock.

 

[PoliticalChic]

So why do YOU portend such things as Healthcare is a liberty worthy to be taken over BY Government?

I've never been of the opinion that health care should be taken over by the government.

The dupes will fight to the death for their right to be summarily cut off, generally gouged, and killed by greedy BIG HEALTH. Keep those blinders on.

Romney/Ryan- "I know, let's cut taxes on the rich, destroy Medicare, and grow the military"- Absolute idiocy, the GOP platform dupes barely know about...

" summarily cut off, generally gouged, and killed by greedy BIG HEALTH."

Well, not that it is necessary to document how little you know, but as your quote about represents the usual Liberal assumption that they know more than the citizens who use the sysmem, consider these quotes:


1. “…while the numbers clearly show that people are happier with their own health care than with the system as a whole, there is no dimension with which their happier than the quality of care they personally receive…a mere 15 percent complain about the quality of care they receive.”.(New England Journal of Medicine)
Health Beat: The Quality Question

2. The most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll (June 21) finds that 83 percent of Americans are very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with the quality of their health care, and 81 percent are similarly satisfied with their health insurance.

3. They have good reason to be. If you're diagnosed with cancer, you have a better chance of surviving it in the United States than anywhere else, according to the Concord Five Continent Study. And the World Health Organization ranked the United States No. 1 out of 191 countries for being responsive to patients' needs, including providing timely treatments and a choice of doctors.
Defend Your Healthcare

4. Among insured Americans, 82 percent rate their health coverage positively. Among insured people who've experienced a serious or chronic illness or injury in their family in the last year, an enormous 91 percent are satisfied with their care, and 86 percent are satisfied with their coverage.
ABCNEWS.com : U.S. Health Care Concerns Increase



So this is why the word 'franco' has entered the lexicon as meaning "Lacking intelligence or common sense."

Carry on.

 

[francoHFW]

Yup, too bad for the 45k who die without care a year, the 750k who go bankrupt- it's great health care costs doubled under BOOSH, so 18% of GDP is health care, DOUBLE the countries where people live longer. Change the channel, you pompous ASS. LOL

Poor workers go without, end up in ridiculously expensive ER care, so many lose everything and go or stay on welfare to get Medicaid. Brilliant.