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Trashing Achievement
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Trashing Achievements
by Thomas Sowell
-- There was a time, within living memory, when the achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as an inspiration for imitation of the same qualities that had served these achievers well, even if we were not in the same field of endeavor and were not expecting to achieve on the same scale.
The perseverance of Thomas Edison, as he tried scores of materials for the filament of the light bulb he was inventing; the dedication of Abraham Lincoln as he studied law on his own while struggling to make a living – these were things young people were taught to admire, even if they had no intention of becoming inventors or lawyers, much less President of the United States.
Somewhere along the way, all that changed. Today, the very concept of achievement is de-emphasized and sometimes attacked. Following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, Professor Elizabeth Warren of Harvard has made the downgrading of high achievers the centerpiece of her election campaign against Senator Scott Brown.
To cheering audiences, Professor Warren says, "there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You build a factory out there, good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate."
Do the people who cheer this kind of talk bother to stop and think through what she is saying? Or is heady rhetoric enough for them?
People who run businesses are benefitting from things paid for by others? Since when are people in business, or high-income earners in general, exempt from paying taxes like everybody else?
At a time when a small fraction of high-income taxpayers pay the vast majority of all the taxes collected, it is sheer chutzpah to depict high-income earners as somehow being subsidized by "the rest of us," whether in paying for the building of roads or the educating of the young.
Since everybody else uses the roads and the schools, why should high achievers be expected to feel like free loaders who owe still more to the government, because schools and roads are among the things that facilitate their work? According to Elizabeth Warren, because it is part of an "underlying social contract."
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http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell103.html
Comments
Posters with agendas tend to find only one small, negative, microscopic part and then magnify it for the rest of us. The overall truth does not matter.
Why not talk to those who are still employed thanks to Romney? Answer: Because that would not make the communist agenda look good and there are just too many of those kinds of people.
The next time you purchase a product from Staples, thank Romney. He saved that company.
Sully,if you want a job,move to china,but if you're late to one of your 7 15 hr. a day shifts,they'll cut your breast off!
You know all the stuff made in China, that the Demwits help import..
Todya's Democrat Party should change it's name to the Failure Party cuz that's what they promote and celebrate.
And that's what most of their members achieve in life.
And that's fine with them as long as the rest of us carry them all the way through their miserable, whining lives.
I mean yes, Slick Willie was a horrible President as all Democrat Presidents are but it's time to move on.
Please.
Go ahead and keep arguing about your republicans and democrats...see if it has any effect on the final outcome.
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