The United States of Unfair-ica - Page 1 - Derek Hunter - Townhall Conservative: What is fair?
Not life. Some people obviously are smarter than others. Some are better looking. Others have more capacity for hard work.
But this is not unfair. This is the ultimate in fairness. It’s not what skills you were born with; it’s what you do with those skills. Many geniuses simply have no drive to work hard, many “average-looking” people marry “beautiful” people, and so on.
President Obama went to Osawatomie, Kan., this week to give a campaign speech -- er, policy speech; it couldn’t have been a campaign speech since we, the taxpayers, picked up the tab for it – about what is “fair.” Why Osawatomie? Because it’s where Teddy Roosevelt gave his famous “New Nationalism” speech in 1910, and President Obama wants to be the new TR. At least this week.
The President railed for nearly an hour about “fairness” and how the United States has become unfair. But, again, what is “fair”?
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