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Andy440 Wrote: Jun 01, 2010 12:06 PM

Your words of wisdom, unfortunately, will fall upon 'deaf ears' with much of the younger generation. Fifty years of gulping the socialist 'kool aid' in the public schools and universities has psychologically emasculated an entire generation of American youth. The current 'pretender' in the White House is a living, breathing testimony of the truth of that fact. In the socialist manner of thinking, personal or national exceptionalism is 'out', group think and mediocrity is 'in'. The only 'sins' in the 'catechism' of this group is 'racism', 'sexism', and 'intolerance'. As for 'serving' people with a 'career' in 'public service'- what a JOKE! 'Public service' is, in the way it ACTUALLY 'plays out', a group of obedient 'clones', under the...

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Editors' Note: this is a reprint of a classic Thomas Sowell column. Enjoy!

Every year about this time, big-government liberals stand up in front of college commencement crowds across the country and urge the graduates to do the noblest thing possible-- become big-government liberals.

That isn't how they phrase it, of course. Commencement speakers express great reverence for "public service," as distinguished from narrow private "greed." There is usually not the slightest sign of embarrassment at this self-serving celebration of the kinds of careers they have chosen-- over and above the careers of others who merely provide us with...

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