You Didn't Earn it, You are Lucky

[Terrel L. Shields]

[url]http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/02/news/economy/bernanke-princeton-speech/index.html[/URL]

Bernanke said to students at Princeton in the commencement speech that they were simply lucky....nothing about smart and hard working. Say what?
Then the good Jew boy goes on to say...

As the Gospel of Luke says (and I am sure my rabbi will forgive me for quoting the New Testament in a good cause): "From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded."

That seems to be a distortion of the New Testament exhortion to make the best of your talents in that Bernanke seems to imply these grads should be happy to "give" back to the government - And to heap patronizing pity upon the working class, he added,

people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect--and help, if necessary--than many people who are superficially more successful. They're more fun to have a beer with, too. That's all that I know about sociology

Very strange speech.

 

[normando]

Bernanke was previously a professor in Princeton. Maybe he saw the kind of students in Ivy league schools - kids born to rich families who has the best of everything. These "lucky" kids had tutors, travel extensively, lived in good safe neighborhoods, etc. Are they more deserving? Yes, because they had the resources to get the best education and experience unlike typical kids. Given their pathway to success, they can contribute so much more to society. Sure, there are some disadvantage students but to get in, they are special to overcome so many obstacles and hardships. Think of Obama and Kennedy. However, most graduates will go back to their ivory towers and live comfortable.

 

[JSmith43]

They're more fun to have a beer with, too.

He's not Alan Greenspan & he certainly isn't Paul Volker.

I wonder if he wasn't allowed to read Friedman while growing up? Maybe someone in the family like PP, would simply go Joe Biden on him, when in his formative years, if he explored other views.

At least he is an alleged expert on The Great Depression, which appears to be about as useful as B H O s background, allegedly studying The Constitution:Eyecrazy:

I wonder if when he taught Constitutional Law he presented it as if it were a creationist's fiction? Someone get Mel Brooks on the phone! I have an idea for a movie.

 

[Stone]

I wonder if when he taught Constitutional Law he presented it as if it were a creationist's fiction? Someone get Mel Brooks on the phone! I have an idea for a movie.

Would that be the same Mel Brooks who turned down a Kennedy Center Honor because Bush was president and he wanted to wait until someone else was in office?

 

[OSU Beavers]

Are they more deserving? Yes, because they had the resources to get the best education and experience unlike typical kids. Given their pathway to success, they can contribute so much more to society.

You are talking about the guys who invented the credit default swap.

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

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Bernanke said to students at Princeton in the commencement speech that they were simply lucky....nothing about smart and hard working. Say what?
Then the good Jew boy goes on to say...


That seems to be a distortion of the New Testament exhortion to make the best of your talents in that Bernanke seems to imply these grads should be happy to "give" back to the government - And to heap patronizing pity upon the working class, he added,


Very strange speech.

Given the "good Jew boy" use and your earlier slam today at Indian Americans (those from Asia) I'm stunned that you have any Biblical knowledge at all. If you've read it, it doesn't appear to have sunken in.

Love how you "imply" (negatively) what the speaker had to say.

Very disappointing--would expect such from Mentor but not you.

 

[Mr Rex]

Obama: Ignore Evidence of Tyranny Within Government - YouTube

 

[JSmith43]

Would that be the same Mel Brooks who turned down a Kennedy Center Honor because Bush was president and he wanted to wait until someone else was in office?

It's the one that directed History of the World. Moses, coming down from the mountain carrying 15 commandments, oops-he dropped one & it shattered.

I was thinking of that scene & Mel Brooks sense of humor. Is your point that I might have to shop directors? There's always Mel Gibson, if he's not busy fighting IRS charges since using the term, (The) Patriot in a movie title. Definitely a software flag there

 

[JSmith43]

PP, so your plan is to totally duck the Bernanke commencement comments which was the point of the post you reference?

There are becoming fewer & fewer posters in the water cooler that you haven't attempted to slime. I wonder if your credibility has approached absolute zero (except in your mind)?

 

[Pittsburgh Pete]

PP, so your plan is to totally duck the Bernanke commencement comments which was the point of the post you reference?

There are becoming fewer & fewer posters in the water cooler that you haven't attempted to slime. I wonder if your credibility has approached absolute zero (except in your mind)?

And you see nothing wrong with the "good Jew boy" remark--boy am I surprised. Feel free to defend it. Loved Bernanke's remarks--made some fine points.