The best commencement address ever given?

[LVGaryD]

I just read this guy's commencement address to the graduating class of Texas A&M. This man is brilliant!

http://theghostfighters.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/texas-am-commencement-address-the-students-gave-a-standing-ovation-the-faculty-were-deathly-silent/

 

[careless hal]

 
"The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms."

Amen to that.

"You have heard, no doubt, that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Interestingly enough, our government

[LVGaryD]

Sadly, I just found out this speech was written but not yet delivered. Hopefully it will be spoken soon.

[The Giss]

Nearly as good as this (which has a lot more practical information):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

[Jeremy]

Texas A&M doesn't really seem like the school you would have to give a speech like that to.

[Danville]

Texas A&M doesn't really seem like the school you would have to give a speech like that to.

Neil Boortz is a graduate Aggie and has been invited to speak at his alma-mater.
Being he is a born again Libertarian I'd guess he can give whatever type of speech he feels is appropriate and damn the nay-sayers and/or censors.

[LVGaryD]

Neil Boortz is a graduate Aggie and has been invited to speak at his alma-mater.
Being he is a born again Libertarian I'd guess he can give whatever type of speech he feels is appropriate and damn the nay-sayers and/or censors.

Really hope he does that speech. 

I did not know he was a fellow Libertarian. Now I like him even more!

[Jeremy]

Neil Boortz is a graduate Aggie and has been invited to speak at his alma-mater.
Being he is a born again Libertarian I'd guess he can give whatever type of speech he feels is appropriate and damn the nay-sayers and/or censors.

The point I was making is that a school that has the George Bush Library is probably plenty conservative, and that speech would be needed at a more liberal college.

[Just Saying]

The point I was making is that a school that has the George Bush Library is probably plenty conservative, and that speech would be needed at a more liberal college.

In the world of academia, a "more conservative college" is still staffed with liberals. It's just the nature of the beast.(I was on-staff for 12 yrs at a Big 10 college, but not academic) I, personally, couldn't find anything in the speech that I disagree with. We are all victims of our own dumb decisions... it's not someone else's fault.

[Jeremy]

In the world of academia, a "more conservative college" is still staffed with liberals. It's just the nature of the beast.(I was on-staff for 12 yrs at a Big 10 college, but not academic) I, personally, couldn't find anything in the speech that I disagree with. We are all victims of our own dumb decisions... it's not someone else's fault.

I don't doubt that, luckily I just had one professor that I could tell was a hardcore liberal.  (none the other way) Partly because he believed JFK got him a job when he wrote him a letter.  Couldn't argue with him at all; I remember he always complained that the Bush tax cuts helped the rich, even though it was pointed out to him that if you cut 3% from everyone, the rich wouldn't be getting bigger cuts.  Had him in the spring of 2001, so it wouldn't surprise me if he was a truther.

[Just Saying]

I don't doubt that, luckily I just had one professor that I could tell was a hardcore liberal.  (none the other way) Partly because he believed JFK got him a job when he wrote him a letter.  Couldn't argue with him at all; I remember he always complained that the Bush tax cuts helped the rich, even though it was pointed out to him that if you cut 3% from everyone, the rich wouldn't be getting bigger cuts.  Had him in the spring of 2001, so it wouldn't surprise me if he was a truther.

The "Hate the rich" class envy works really well on folks who don't care about facts. When Ronald Reagan lowered the top marginal rate from 70% to 28% the actual dollars to the treasury nearly doubled. Libs never mention that. When you allow people to keep more of what they earn, they work to earn much more.(and pay the taxes on it) Libs look at the economy as a "zero-sum game". It's not. The economy grows under the right conditions and adds to the GDP, which translates into more tax dollars.