Obama’s speeches are always simple, too often trite, and always political. When he addresses young minds, his teleprompter throws him words which turn the conscious mind into an incredulous lump of mush wondering how such statements can emanate from a Presidential podium.
A recent commencement address at Ohio State University deserves a little exposure of the deconstructing kind, and Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., provides an unequivocal and effective six minute plucking of Obama’s private universe. Schiff doesn’t mince words and is in particularly potent form.
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Who needs individual ambition, drive and creativity to do big things, to do little things, or to do anything else, when you have your President making you feel all warm and cozy about the prospects of big government, and the collective effort being there for you – so don’t bother trying.
Yup, what would you be worth if it wasn’t for the government? . . . . Is this the new path to inspiring greatness?
A constituent of the vast baby boomer generation with a career which has been fortunate to know the ponderous corporate worlds, as well as the intimately pressurized, and invigorating entrepreneurial domains of high tech and venture capital, I have harvested my share of mistakes meandering through corridors of enterprise from Silicon Valley, to London and endless, colourful, sometimes praetorian points in between. The voyage has provided an abundance of fodder for a pen yielding to an inquisitive keyboard, a foraging mind, and a passionate spirit.
Whether political or business or social or economic or personal, is it not all political? It is a privilege to write, and an even greater privilege to be read by anyone, and sometimes with the wind at my back the writing may occasionally be legible. I do not write to invite scorn, nor to invite respect, but if I get really lucky the writing can stimulate thinking. I also write for the very selfish purpose of animating my own processes, and engaging the best of what life offers. Above all, whether biting fire or swatting shadows, I am grateful to be gifted the freedom to write and publish whatever flows down to the keyboard. To all those who enabled this freedom, and to all those standing guard to preserve it, I am indebted.