Another year, and no commencement speech. I’m really starting to take this personally. If a cook is deemed worthy to address University of Georgia graduates, what possible problem could school administrators have with me?
What a thrill it would be to address these young graduates on the very day they are thoroughly convinced that they know the answers and solutions to every problem plaguing mankind around the world.
The Community Organizer delivered a speech last week at the University of Michigan. The man who believes that America’s greatness comes from government was predictable: “Government ... is the roads we drive on, and the speed limits that keep us safe. It’s the men and women in the military, the inspectors in our mines, the pioneering researchers in public universities.”
Oh, that’s so nice and soothing. Thank you, Mr. President, for easing any concerns that we might actually have something to fear from ever bigger government.
Put me in front of those graduates? The message might be amended just a bit:
● Government forces you to buy health insurance.
● Government seizes your money with a vague promise you’ll get some back if you live long enough.
● Government seizes your home because some developer promises to build something that will deliver more property taxes.
● Government forces you to pay one employee too much while telling you that you cannot pay a top executive what he is worth.
● Government is (or will be) health care rationing.
● Government tells you that you can’t have a mimosa Sunday brunch because a Baptist might still be in church somewhere.
● Government tells you that you cannot invest in a friend’s business you find promising.
● Government tells you that you can’t advise someone on what color cushion goes with what color drapes without a license — from government.
● Government charges you with a federal crime if you pick an eagle feather off the ground.
● Government tells you that you cannot use property that you own because it might — just might — be a nifty habitat for some strange mouse.
● Government allows teachers unions to control the education of our children.
● Government forces the top 1 percent of income earners to pay 40 percent of all personal income taxes while allowing the bottom 50 percent to become net tax consumers.
● Government is chasing businesses and jobs overseas with confiscatory taxation.
● Government creates a financial meltdown by encouraging and guaranteeing hideously bad mortgages and then blames Wall Street for the s#!t stew.
● Government owns General Motors.
● Government flies politicians all over the globe on meaningless junkets while demonizing corporate executives who dare use private aircraft.
● Government taxes you your entire working life, and then takes half of what’s left when you die.
● Over and above everything else, government is FORCE. It’s the only entity you will ever encounter that can use deadly force legally to accomplish its goals.
Oh, yeah. I really must keep my calendar clean for next spring. That commencement speech invitation is being drafted right now. I can feel it.
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