Arguement #16 " Obama's School Speech Was Wonderful!"

The Liberal Position: Your friend, Lisa the Liberal, exclaims: "Did you hear Obama's speech to the school kids yesterday? It was wonderful! I sat there and drank Jim Jones Kool-Aid and loved it!"
The Ayn Rand, Liberatarian, Conservative Republican Arguement: "Lisa, first of all, I understand that Obama administration did not even talk to the school boards about televising his speech into their schools. It went directly to the principals and the teachers. If this is true, it was wrong. The school boards run the school system not the principals and the teachers. If true, this was more ignorance or arrogance from the Obama administration. Take your pick, there's plenty of both in the Obama administration.
Before I listened to his speech to the school kids, I told myself that I'd stop listening as soon as he said something I strongly disagreed with. I made that promise out of respect to my blood pressure. Lisa, yes, I did hear things that I agreed with such as hard work, self-reliance, and being realistic about becoming a professional basketball or football player. These are all conservative ideas, not liberal ones with the exception of working hard. That the liberal would love for you to do if you were working hard and long for the state while Obama was sitting up at the White House eating $100 a pound steak. Liberals do not want you working hard for yourself, but for the government. The politicians think they have the right to take your money and spend it the way they want to. They have become very brazen parasites!
But when Obama said that if a student drops out of school, he hurts not only himself but the United States, I left the room as I had promised my blood pressure. Lisa, we are free people. We are not here to serve the United States government or live up to its expectations. If I am sixteen and drop out of school, the only people I may hurt are my parents and myself. I have no obligation to the parasites that will suck my money and liberty the rest of my life! My two children both dropped out of school because they would not endure the physical and pscyhological violence being done to them. The school staff would not stop it. One of my brothers dropped out of high school for about the same reason back in the sixties. In his case, a principal pushed him and on top of all the hostility and intimidation he was getting from fellow students after schools were integrated, he decided to drop out. In both cases, three children dropped out of school because government refused to protect them in school. Don't talk to me about the United States government being let down if you drop out of school. It's such hypocrisy! It's none of the government's business, and each time it does get involved in the schools, it only makes the situation worse. Peter Nickerson, MS, MSW at 352-359-0850