LIVING
IN THE REAL WORLD
This
message was delivered by an
employer, invited to address
a graduating class at a University.
Who spoke and where is not
important - but his message
is ! He
said ...........
You may not like to hear much
of what follows, but you will
remember this, especially
after about 10 years out there
in the real world. However,
this does not apply to those
who seek careers as professors
or those who become government
employees or who join the
Judiciary...
It
has been said, Those who can
– do, - and Those who
can't – become professors.
That sounds insensitive, but
there is often raw truth in
insensitivity, just as you
often find feel-good falsehoods
and lies in compassion. Prepare
yourself to go into the real
world, and do ...
meanwhile, the professors
will stay and teach.
When
you first get a pilot's license,
it is really just your ticket
to learn. The same can be
said for your degree or diploma....
your learning has just begun.
Many
of you, just leaving college,
consider yourselves liberals
(small L) and are probably
proud of your liberal views.
You care so much, you feel
so much, you want to help
so much. After all you're
such a compassionate and caring
person, aren't you ? Oh my,
you are so educated, above
and beyond the common people
and you know absolutely everything.
Well almost, but starting
tomorrow, the truth will begin
to set in. Over the next few
years, as you begin to feel
the cold breath of reality
down your neck, things are
going to start changing pretty
fast, including your own assessment
of just how much you really
know. So here are the first
assignments for your initial
class in reality:
Pay careful attention to the
media, and listen to the words
and phrases that proud liberals
(the Left) use to promote
their causes. Then, compare
the words of the left to the
words and phrases from those
heartless, conservatives (the
Right). The Left says ...
"I feel." The Right
says ... "I think."
From the Left you will hear
references to groups, The
Blacks, the Poor, The Rich,
The Disadvantaged, The Less
Fortunate and many others.
From the Right you will hear
references to individuals.
On the Left you hear of group
rights. On the Right, individual
rights. That about sums it
up, really: liberals ... “feel”,
liberals ... “care”.
They are like pack animals
whose identity is tied up
in group dynamics. On the
other hand, Conservatives
think, and setting aside the
theocracy crowd, their identity
is centred on the individual.
Those on the Left somehow
feel that their favored groups
have enforceable rights to
the property and services
of productive individuals.
Those on the Right somehow
think that individuals have
the right to protect their
lives and their property from
the plunder of the Left. In
college you developed a group
mentality, but if you look
closely at your diplomas,
you will see that they have
your individual names on them.
Not the name of your school
mascot, or of your fraternity
or sorority, but your name.
Your group identity is now
going away. Your recognition
and appreciation of your individual
identity starts now.
If, by the time you reach
the age of 30, you do not
consider yourself to be a
conservative, rush right back
to college as quickly as you
can and apply for a faculty
position. The professors will
welcome you with open arms.
Yes, they will welcome you,
but only if you haven't developed
an individual identity. Once
again you will have to be
willing to sign on to the
group mentality you embraced
before.
Something
is going to happen then that
is going to really open your
eyes. You're going to actually
get a full time job! You're
also going to get a lifelong
work partner. This partner
isn't going to help you do
your job. This partner is
just going to sit back and
wait for payday. This partner
doesn't want to share in your
effort, but in your earnings.
Your
new lifelong partner is actually
an agent; an agent representing
a strange and diverse group
of people; an agent for every
teenager with an illegitimate
child; an agent for a research
scientist who wants to make
some cash by answering the
age-old question of why monkeys
grind their teeth. An agent
for some poor demented hippie
who considers herself to be
a meaningful and talented
artist, but who just can't
manage to sell any of her
artwork on the open market.
Your new partner is an agent
for every person with limited,
if any, work ethic, but who
wants a job at City Hall.
An agent for tin-horn dictators
in fancy military uniforms
grasping for foreign aid.
An agent for multi-million-dollar
companies who want someone
else to pay for their overseas
advertising. An agent for
everybody who wants to use
the unimaginable power of
any agent for their personal
benefit.
That
agent is our wonderful, caring
and compassionate, oppressive
government. You will be awed
by the power this agent has.
Power that you do not have,
a power that no individual
has, or will have. This agent
has created its own legal
power* to use force, even
deadly force to accomplish
its goals. You have no choice
here. Your new friend is just
going to walk up to you, introduce
itself bluntly, hand you a
few forms to fill out, and
move right on in. Say hello
to your own personal OTG -
one ton gorilla. It will sleep
anywhere it wants to. *(Luke
11.46 + 52 KJV)
This
agent is not cheap. As you
become successful it will
seize about 40% of everything
you earn. And no, there is
just no way you can fire this
agent of plunder, and you
can't decrease its share of
your income. Remember, it
is not wrong to distrust government.
It is not wrong to fear government.
In certain cases it is not
even wrong to despise government,
for government is inherently
evil. Yes ... a necessary
evil, but dangerous, nonetheless.
It is somewhat like a drug.
Just as a drug that in the
proper dosage can save your
life, an overdose of government
can be fatal.
There
are some ideas you need to
get out of your head as soon
as possible. These ideas may
work well in an academic environment,
but they always fail miserably
in the real world. First is
that favorite buzz word of
the media, government and
academia, ie - Diversity!
You have been taught that
the real value of any group
of people - be it a social
group, a management group,
a union, or whatever, - is
based on diversity. This is
a favored Left ideal because
diversity is based not on
an individual's abilities
or character, but on a person's
identity and status as a member
of the group. Yes, it's that
group identity thing.
Within
the great diversity movement
group identification, be it
racial, gender based, or some
other minority status. It
means more than the individual's
integrity, character or any
other qualifications. Brace
yourself. You are about to
move from this academic atmosphere
where diversity rules, to
a workplace and a culture
where individual achievement
and excellence actually count.
No matter what your professors
have taught you over the years,
you are about to learn that
diversity is absolutely no
replacement for excellence,
ability, and individual hard
work. From this day on, every
single time you hear the word
"diversity" you
can rest assured that there
is someone close by who is
determined to rob you of every
vestige of individuality you
possess.
Secondly,
you need to address this thinking
you seem to have about "rights."
Nationally, we have witnessed
an obscene explosion of so-called
"rights" in the
last few decades, usually
emanating from college campuses
and universities. You know
the mantra: You have the right
to a job. The right to a place
to live. The right to a living
wage. The right to health
care. The right to an education.
You probably even have your
own pet right - the right
to a car for instance, or
the right to have someone
else provide for that child
you plan on downloading in
a year or so.
Forget
it. All you will have is the
right to live on the results
of 60% of your labor –
that's all !! You have no
right to any portion of the
life or labor of anyone else.
You may, for instance, believe
that you have a right to health
care, but you cannot receive
Health Care unless some doctor
or health practitioner surrenders
some of his time - his life
- to you. He may be willing
to do this for compensation,
but that's his choice. You
have no "right"
to his or any other person's
life or to any portion thereof.
You have no more right to
demand Health Care than you
do to demand Plumber Care
or Electrician Care ! What
else ? how about - the "right"
that the Government takes
money from others to pay for
your children's shoes ? or
your toothpaste ? If you have
a need, fix it yourself !
If you will not or cannot,
then you have to find someone
to fix it by some kind of
mutually agreed payment, without
force or threat of force.
You
may also think you have some
"right" to a job;
a job with a “fair”
living wage, whatever that
is. You have no right to force
your services on another person,
and then the right to demand
that this person compensate
you with their money? Sorry,
forget it. I am sure you would
scream if some urban outdoorsmen
(that would be "homeless
person" for those of
you who don't want to give
these less fortunate people
a romantic and adventurous
title) came to you and demanded
his job and your money. The
people who have been telling
you about all the rights you
have are simply exercising
one of theirs - the right
to be imbeciles. Their being
imbeciles didn't cost anyone
else either property or time.
It's their right, and they
exercise it brilliantly.
By
the way, did you catch the
phrase "less fortunate",
the urban outdoorsmen ? That
phrase is a favorite of the
Left. Think about it if you
can. To imply that one person
is homeless, destitute, dirty,
drunk, spaced out on drugs,
unemployable, and generally
miserable because he is "less
fortunate" is to imply
that a successful person -
one with a job, a home and
a future, is in that position
because he or she was "fortunate."
The dictionary says that fortunate
means "having derived
good from an unexpected place."
There is nothing unexpected
about deriving good from hard
work. There is also nothing
unexpected about deriving
misery from choosing drugs,
alcohol, and the street.
If
the liberal Left can create
the common perception that
success and failure are simple
matters of "fortune"
or "luck," then
it is easy to promote and
justify their various income
redistribution schemes. After
all, we are just evening out
the odds a little bit. This
"success equals luck"
idea the liberals like to
push is seen everywhere. High-achievers
are so referred to as "people
who have won life's lottery."
They are making the big bucks
because they are lucky. It's
not luck, my friends. It's
choice. One of the greatest
lessons in life is very simple:
"Use wisely your power
of choice." The bum sitting
on a heating grate, smelling
like a wharf rat? He's there
by choice. He is there because
of the sum total of the choices
he has made in his life. This
truism is absolutely the hardest
thing for some people to accept,
especially those who consider
themselves to be victims of
something or other - victims
of discrimination, bad luck,
the system, society, whatever.
After all, nobody really wants
to accept the blame for his
or her actions and their resulting
in position in life. Not when
it is so much easier to point
and say ... "Hey, Society
did this to me!" ...
than it is to look into a
mirror and say ... "I
am doing it all, my way".
The major 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.
Some
of the choices are obvious:
Whether or not to stay in
school, whether or not to
get pregnant, whether or not
to hit the bottle, whether
or not to keep this job you
hate until you get another
better-paying job. Whether
or not to save some of your
money, or saddle yourself
with huge repayments for that
new car.
Some
of the choices are seemingly
insignificant: Whom to go
to the movies with. Whose
car to ride home in. Whether
to watch TV tonight, or read
a book on investing. But,
and you can be sure of this,
each choice counts. Each choice
is a building block - some
large, some small. Each one
is a part of the structure
of your life. If you make
the right choices, or if you
make more right choices than
wrong ones, something absolutely
unthinkable may happen to
you. You could become one
of the hated, the evil, the
ugly, the feared, the filthy,
the successful, and dare I
say, the rich.
The
rich basically serve two purposes
in this country. First, -
they provide the brains and
investments for the formation
of businesses, businesses
that hire people, businesses
that send millions of paychecks
home each week to the un-rich.
Second,
- they are a wonderful object
of ridicule, distrust, and
even hatred. Few things are
more valuable to a politician
than envy. Envy is a powerful
emotion. Politicians use envy
to get votes and power. And
they keep that power by promising
the envious that the envied
will be punished: "The
rich will pay their fair share
of taxes”. The truth
is that the top 10% of income
earners in this country pays
almost 50% of all income taxes
collected. I shudder to think
what these job producers would
be paying if our tax system
were any more "fair."
You
have heard, no doubt, that
... “the rich get richer
and the poor get poorer”
... Interestingly enough,
government's own numbers show
that many of the poor are
actually getting richer, and
that quite a few of the rich
are actually getting poorer.
But for the rich who do actually
get richer, and the poor who
remain poor ... there's one
basic and simple reason. The
rich keep doing the things
that make them rich; while
the poor keep doing the things
that keep them poor.
Speaking
of the poor, during your adult
life you are going to hear
an endless string of politicians
bemoaning the plight of the
poor So, you need to know
that under our government's
definition of "poor"
you can have a $5 million
net worth, a $500,000 home
and a new $90,000 Mercedes,
all completely paid for. You
can also have a maid, cook,
and valet, and $ million in
your bank account, and you
can still be officially defined
as "living in poverty."
Now there's something you
won't see on the evening news.
How
does the government pull this
one off? Very simple, really.
To determine whether or not
some poor soul is "living
in poverty," government
measures just one thing ...
Income. Regardless of how
much you have, how much you
own, how many cars you drive,
whether or not your pool is
heated, whether you winter
in Aspen and spend the summers
in the Bahamas , or how much
is in your savings account.
It only matters how much income
you claim in that particular
year. This means that if you
take a one-year leave of absence
from your high-paying job
and decide to live off the
money in your savings account
while you write a book, the
government says you are 'living
in poverty."
This
isn't exactly what you had
in mind when you heard these
gloomy statistics, is it?
Do you Try this. The government's
own statistics show that people
who are said to be "living
in poverty" spend more
than $1.50 for each dollar
of income they claim. Something
is a bit fishy here. Just
remember all this the next
time some professor or whoever
tells you about some hideous
new poverty statistics. So
why has government concocted
this phony poverty scam? Because
government needs an excuse
to grow and to expand its
social welfare programs, which
translates into an expansion
of its power. If the government
can convince you, in all your
compassion, that the number
of "poor" is increasing,
it will have all the excuse
it needs to sway an electorate
suffering from the advanced
stages of Obsessive-Compulsive
Compassion Disorder.
Think
about this - truth knows no
sensitivity. Life can be insensitive.
Wallow too much in sensitivity
and you'll be unable to deal
with life or the truth ...
so get over it.
| Some
thoughts: |
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If
you are living off the
efforts of others, please
shut up and keep your
opinions silent until
you are a producer again. |
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When
you do vote, your votes
for the House and the
Senate are more important
than your vote for the
Prime Minister. The House
controls the purse strings,
so concentrate your awareness
there. |
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Liars
cannot be trusted. If
someone can't deal honestly
with you, send them packing. |
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Don't
bow to the temptation
to use the government
as an instrument of plunder.
If it is wrong for you
to take money from someone
else who earned it, to
take their money by force
for your own needs, then
it is stealing ! And it
is certainly just as wrong
for you to demand that
the government step forward
and do this dirty work
for you. |
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Keep
out of other people's
pockets. You have no business
there. What they earn
is theirs. What you earn
is yours, keep it that
way. Nobody owes you anything,
except to respect your
privacy and your rights
too. |
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The
revered 40-hour workweek
is for losers. Forty hours
should be considered the
minimum, not the maximum.
You don't see highly successful
people clocking out of
the office every afternoon
at five. The losers are
the ones caught up in
that afternoon rush hour.
The winners drive home
in the dark. |
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It
is common practice for
a Union to harass employers
to pay more so that employees
(workers) have a “fair”
living wage. But you will
never see – a Union
official standing beside
a store owner (the worker),
harassing a customer (the
employer) to pay more
so the store owner can
have a “fair”
profit and living wage. |
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Free
speech is meant to protect
unpopular speech. Popular
speech, by definition,
needs no protection. |
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Finally,
(and aren't you glad), |
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| 1. |
Proclaim
your rarity ...
you are a unique
individual. |
| 2. |
Use
your power of choice
... wisely. |
| 3. |
Go
the extra mile ...
drive home in the
dark. |
| 4. |
Oh,
and put off buying
a TV set as long
as you can! Now,
if you have any
idea at all what's
good for you, you
will get the hell
out of here and
never come back.
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