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By John Valentine
President of the Utah Senate

On Friday, the U of U set 7,166 new graduates loose on the world. Some of the best and brightest were at the College of Pharmacy Convocation, where I was misplaced and lucky enough to be asked to give a speech.

For those who care about such things, here is the text of my remarks.

Congratulations, graduates, and best of luck.

4 Comments:

 Anonymous said...

I loved the comments at the very end. Thank you for being human.

5/07/2007 5:46 PM  

 Anonymous said...

I also appreciated the sincerity of your remarks, especially at the end.

5/08/2007 9:17 AM  

 Anonymous said...

Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 17:41:34 +0000

I bought a bird feeder.

I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. Within a week we
had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free
and easily accessible food. But then the birds started building nests
in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.
Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs,
the table...everywhere. Then some of the birds turned mean: They would
dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my
own pocket. And others birds were boisterous and loud: They sat on the
feeder and squawked and screamed at all hours of the day and night and
demanded that I fill it when it got low on food. After a while, I
couldn't even sit on my own back porch anymore. I took down the bird
feeder and in three days the birds were gone. I cleaned up their mess
and took down the many nests they had built all o ver the patio. Soon,
the back yard was like it used to be...quite, serene and no one
demanding their rights to a free meal.

Now lets see...our government gives out free food, subsidized housing,
free medical care, free education and allows anyone born here to be an
automatic citizen. Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands.
Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments
are housing 5 families: you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an
emergency room doctor: you child's 2nd grade class is behind other
schools because over half the class doesn't speak English: Corn Flakes
now come in a bilingual box; I have to press "one" to hear my bank
talk to me in English, and people waving flags other than "Old Glory"
are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and
free liberties.
Maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder.

Dwight J. Barrett

5/09/2007 8:07 AM  

 Anonymous said...

I thought you were talking about college students at the U of U.

5/09/2007 10:20 AM  

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