"They know they
didn't -- look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on
your own. You didn't get there on your own."
"I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because
I was just so smart," Obama continued. "There are a lot of smart people out there."
"It must be
because I worked harder than everybody else," he went on. "Let me tell you something --
there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there."--President Obama
This, again, is the strange Obama, the Obama of Kansas. http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2011/12/obama-in-kansas-3.html
And the lesson is what? That all smart people should be rewarded? Since
we build roads in common our cars should be? That all hardworking
people should be rewarded? That we should set up a Commission on Luck
and Breaks to make sure no one is getting an unfair share? Is this the
other side of the sub-prime mortgage disaster where if everyone can't
own a home no one can?
This is peculiar stuff, not because there
are inequities or inexplicable successes and failures but that someone
in this uncertain world has the hutzpa to think they can manage it. It's
not that these bulletins are being handed out by Steve Jobs or Mother
Teresa so that there was a history of success or good will to fall back
on. These organizational volunteers are from the same sort that decided
on the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Washington National
Center of Graft and Influence, the promise-now-pay-later social programs
that are failing all over the globe.
There are certainly huge problems. What is missing is a coherent approach that doesn't depend on wishing or proven failures.
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