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the full speech on boortz.com
Let’s address this thing you seem to have about “rights.” We have witnessed an obscene explosion of so-called “rights” in the last few decades, mostly emanating from college campuses.
You know the mantra: You have the right to a job. The right to a place to live. The right to a living wage. The right to health care. The right to an education. You probably even have your own pet right — the right to a Beemer, for instance, or the right to have someone else provide for that child you plan on downloading in a year or so. Well, hold that pet “right” up there in front of you now. Visualize it! Feel it! I want you to be consumed by your newfound “right” as you hear these next words.
Forget it!
You have absolutely no right to anything. You have no right to anything that demands that another person surrender either his time or his property to you for the fulfillment of your right.
You cannot receive health care unless some doctor or health practitioner surrenders some of his time — his life – to you. He may be willing to do this for compensation, but that’s his choice. You have no “right” to his time or property. You have no right to his life.
You think you have some “right” to a job — a job with a living wage, whatever that is. Do you mean to tell me that you have a right to force your services on another person, and then the right to demand that this person compensate you with money? Sorry, forget it. Just how would you react if some urban outdoorsman (that would be “homeless person” for those of you who don’t want to give these less fortunate people a romantic and adventurous title) presented his smelly self to you and demanded his job and your money?
The people who have been telling you about all the rights you have are simply exercising one of theirs — the right to be an imbecile. Their being imbeciles didn’t cost anyone else either property or time. It’s their right, and they exercise it brilliantly.
Neal Boortz
“The Neal Boortz Commencement Speech”
The Terrible Truth About Liberals
