This is
my universal, post-commencement address column;
universal in its applicability to both high school
and college graduates. College grads out shine their
high school counterparts in terms of indoctrination,
but differ tremendously in terms of debt, dependency
and desperation. College grads are broke, mired in
debt, unemployed, and hopelessly living in their
parent’s basements. High school graduates are cash
neutral, debt-free, and also live in their parent’s
basement, but they have hope because their
commencement speaker recently said they were
America’s future and they believed it. Investing
eight years at college earning a four-year degree
will change that.
A recent CNN poll reveals 63 percent of 18 to 34
year olds think the American dream is unattainable.
Interestingly, at age 35 the no-hope marker drops to
59 percent, an astonishing improvement of four
percentage points. This is the age one recognizes
their days of athletic superiority in basketball,
golf, team-roping, bar-hopping, or fishing has
passed and imperceptible changes begin creeping into
their lives. Time previously spent studying the
sports pages is replaced reading the box scores of
the obituary column. “Why did that 42-year-old guy
die?” becomes the dilemma of middle age minds. When
basement dwellers suddenly discover they might only
have seven years left, they crawl out into the
sunlight determined to make something of their life.
The “Stop Climate Change” and “Che Guevara” posters
formerly stuck to the walls with biodegradable clay
are tossed in the trash. It is time to grow up. The
right was right all along and it is time to find a
job; a real job. Winston Churchill is attributed to
have said, ““If you're not a liberal at twenty you
have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty
you have no brain.” He was so right.
The American dream is entirely attainable but not
using the same logic which put you in the basement
in the first place. Once you realize the purpose of
higher education is to advance collectivism, you can
toss your master’s degree in ethnic women’s studies
aside and get on with life. Play your cards right
and you just might land a job with a company owned
by a fellow with a GED. Good luck because you voted
yourself into quite a hole as indicated by the
plummeting labor force participation rate. Over
one-third of Americans are no longer in the
workforce.
President Obama’s recent Climate Change Decree, in
addition to being illegal, will devastate our
economy. In his own words he said energy costs
“would necessarily skyrocket.” On the job production
side of the economic equation, Montana’s massive
coal, oil, and natural gas reserves will sit as idle
as the unemployed 18 to 34 year olds living in their
parent’s basement. The scientific community now
admits global warming is an elaborate con, yet
college conditioned you to blindly vote for it, so
you did and this gets me closer to my point.
President Obama is about to drop the other shoe.
There is talk his next executive order will restrict
student loan repayments to no more than 10 percent
of one’s monthly salary. College attendees will
herald this as a good thing without stepping back
and critically examining their plight and this does
bring me to my point.
The federal government has nationalized the student
loan program; they own your debt and never forget
the borrower is always slave to the lender. Everyone
is encouraged to get a college degree regardless the
time or cost, so the government owns your mind. With
a stagnant collectivist economy you will never find
a job, so upon graduation the government also owns
your wallet. The best you can do is beg for
government sponsored universal health care while
feeding yourself on EBT cards. Only then will you
discover dependency on government is as humiliating
as dependency on parents. It is liberty and
free-market capitalism which made America great and
the sooner we abandon collectivism the better off we
will be.
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