Posted by
Anthony Rizzuto on Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:03:59 PM
In a commencement address to graduates of Arizona State University, President Obama said the following:
" Did you study business? Why not help our struggling non-profits find better, more effective ways to serve folks in need. Nursing? Understaffed clinics and hospitals across this country are desperate for your help. Education? Teach in a high-need school; give a chance to kids we can't afford to give up on - prepare them to compete for any job anywhere in the world. Engineering? Help us lead a green revolution, developing new sources of clean energy that will power our economy and preserve our planet."
Is that what parents have slaved and sacrificed to send their children to school for, to increase the size of the welfare state? Or did they they send them there so that they would develop the tools that would make them self sustaining so they wouldn't end up back on their doorsteps at age 30 with their husbands wives and children?
According to Obama we are in the shape we are in because for generations we pursued individual achievement at the expense of the common good and the only way out of it is to suppress that desire in future generations. The following could just as easily come out of his mouth: "Don’t set out to raze all shrines—you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity, and the shrines are razed." Those are the words of Ayn Rand's collectivist character Ellsworth Toohey in the Fountainhead. After the statements that were made at ASU there can be no doubt that is who now sits in the White House.