For those of us who think we understand about how things work, and that we all should share our wealth with "The Poor", let's read this and then we can really understand the world better. You are all encouraged to read it.
This was never a real commencement speech. But it has been read more times than any real commencement speech could have been. It is the kind of speech we would wish had been given to us, and to our children!
For this and further interesting comment, go to
http://boortz.com/more/commencement.html

Well, I think that some are unlucky. Some retarded people can be tossed out in this age of love and tolerance if they are in the way of a family's financial progress. If euthenasia becomes legal, if injured or with cancer, they could become happier dead than they are victims (i.e. useless eaters). I do believe there are those who would and they are not like the Bundys, but likely more elite. I worked at one of these places. I think many families probably do think they are putting their parent in a good place, esp. if they have the money for a good place. Guess what, though? There's a high-turnover rate in that biz. There's a handful of long-termers, I admit, but these places are not the places for your loved one who spent all-day all-week with you when you were a child, whether they were strict disciplinarians or light-hearted.

Still, I don't think the government should pay for it as the range for those who "need" that help could be broadened way out of proportion. We need to give of our own good-will. It especially pees me off that the government takes our money and puts it into abortion and/or population control companies and/or NGOs. Where's the democracy in that? We had our Hitler picked for us while we were bothered by the Yankees vs. the Red Sox and Republican prez vs. Democrat prez candidate, but it's not a person and power is not totally centralized.

Some put their parents in nursing homes when they could inconvenience themselves by a pay cut in order to stay home for one who put themselves out amidst gripes and anger. If it's an in-law, well, maybe that could be a case for a man staying home and the woman working (laughing). I'm not married, but I get the humor. Seriously, though, I do know some senile grandparents could have problems that could make them dangerous to themselves or the kids. In that case, maybe a personal care person could be hired. Still, what is the kid going to do having come home to an empty house? That's right! The push button pleasure machine. The electronic babysitter on booze. I think parenting should go

Being successful is being a reliable and responsible parent. I think it's sad so many kids go to day cares so both parents can work for a brand new tv or a second car or a boat. In S. Korea, at least they're worried about their kid's well-being [even though the kid needs a normal upbringing (and I can't be indifferent here that it's more parental involvement than they're getting)]. Marriage should go back to being primarily about having and raising children. It drifted into the flame. What happens when the flame goes out? Little Joey and little Jenny know. Yes. a new lineage of broken families because marriages are called off on account of rain making the spark go out of a marriage. Boo-hoo. No responsibility...oh, but to work. Actually, I think more people do work longer hours because life is all about feelings and personal desire. I'm not saying go collective mentality, but I think we may have taken individual happiness and success too far. Are we happy, though, or filling a cavity with chocolate? Thomas Edison made the lightbulb so people could work longer. We can thank the Protestant work ethic idea for the state of the family.

We should be able to keep our capital and not have it stolen, but I think Mr. Boortz may be making it and success a god. Theocracies at least care about truth, whether they have the fullness of truth or not. Under the Holy Roman Empire, at least, life for the average family, was not lived for the "almighty" whatever currency they had, but for The Almighty. I don't know about Asia or elsewhere before the communist revolutions of "progress" and "prosperity" that originated from the Masons and swept the globe in the late 19th and early 20th century (which, interestingly, resulted in expansion for the Axis powers decades later than it happened in America--well, there was the League of Nations that used WW1 for its feeling of being needed by the world and was later reassembled after WW2 to collect more of the world).




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"Dark" was going to start another paragraph.

Overall, though, I think Boortz' point was correct about the government's taking our cash for pork spending in the form of funding mostly self-made losers.

My point was that family is more important than and comes before being successful and amusing yourself. I like that about the newest Willy Wonka movie.

Gosh- you are well read and knowledgeable about a lot of history, and you seem to understand that the downfall of the family unit was the downfall of life as we knew it a few years back. The wife left the children behind to go to work in an attempt be "Equal"- or maybe just to "Keep up with the Joneses". The children sort of got stuck with a relative or a daycare, and parental involvement became a lost cause. Kids came home at 4 PM from school, got with other kids-watched nasty videos until 5 when the parents showed up. Were we smarter than a 5th grader then? We have done it to ourselves.
But although you appear well educated, you still exhibit some doubt about using that education to enhance your ability to overcome the antics of the fifth graders! Come on now! Let's see some ingenuity and adaptability to get those little devils under control! Show us some progress here, miniscule as it may be at first. Are you really just teaching conversation? Or is your goal somewhat higher? Keep trying.
A neighbor in SC, 56 years old, quit teaching one day in 2005 when his high school class was interrupted by a kid throwing a resistor at another kid in his electronics class. A repeat offender and constant disrupter, the kid was taken to the Principal, who refused to discipline him. It must be very discouraging to get no support. Three months later My neighbor was convinced to return for more money after that Principal was replaced!