The Commencement Speech You Will Never Hear

 Krayton Kerns
4/30/08

I graduated from the Colorado State University School of Veterinary Medicine in December of 1982.  Our college dean delivered a brief commencement address and he left us with a closing statement I still carry in the back of my mind. 

“I have some bad news and some really bad news,” he jokingly explained.  “The bad news is half of what we taught you is wrong.  The really bad news is we don’t know which half that is.”  

It wasn’t exactly a Knute Rockne “win one for the Gipper” speech, but over the years it has proven to be very true.  Today, if Dean Venable were a climate change fanatic portraying the same honesty he did 26 years ago, he might deliver a commencement address to college grads like this:

“I have some bad news and some really, really bad news.  The bad news is half of what we taught you is wrong.  The really, really bad news is we know exactly which half is wrong but, as we are engaged in the war to replace free-market capitalism with big government socialism, we chose to indoctrinate rather than educate you.  We kept you ignorant of the scientific method to fool you to think that scientific fact is established by a show of hands.  We knew you wouldn’t figure it out, and our plan is right on schedule.       

Under the flag of environmentalism, socialist policy makers have curtailed the development of our nation’s vast natural energy resources so you are at the mercy of Arab oil sheiks.  To look like we care, we confiscated your taxes and created incentives to switch cropland from food into biofuel production. Energy independence we called it.  Now the cost of food and fuel has reached historic highs, and the supply of both is in question.  We’re right on schedule.  

Today Congress is debating the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act.  Under the guise of saving the planet from a problem over which we have no control, America will be asked to sacrifice economic freedom for government regulation.  (China, now the biggest worldwide producer of carbon, is ignoring the save-the-planet environmentalists.)  Once fully implemented this carbon cap and trade act will cost Montana 14,557 jobs, raise gasoline prices 140%, raise electricity prices 133%, and raise natural gas prices 154%.  The combined cost to every Montana household will be $5,391…every year…for the rest of your life.  Do you find it odd that we praised a one-time $300 check from the government as an economic stimulus package while presenting you a perpetual bill of $5391 to save the planet?  You never saw it coming and we’re right on schedule.

 So exactly how is a retired couple scraping by on Social Security going to absorb a $5391 increase in the annual cost of living?  The Billings Gazette reported on April 25, 2008 that the Senate Finance Committee states there will be enough revenue created (meaning confiscated) by new carbon taxes to offer new federal programs to assist middle and low income families with the increased costs of living.  And there it is; the other shoe has dropped.  The goal behind the entire climate change scam is to create dependency.   It’s not about the climate; it’s never been about the climate.  It is about control.  With the government paying your energy bills you will do exactly as you are told, when you are told, and how you are told or you will get nothing.   The Lieberman-Warner act trades your freedom for security, you never saw it coming and we’re right on schedule.        

 After the collapse of the foolish “impending ice-age” scam in the 70’s, I really didn’t think we could effectively switch to a “global warming” scam in just 30 short years.  But, we did it!  Now, don’t forget to pay those carbon taxes for the fuel you will burn as you drive home this evening, and have a nice day.” 

Yep, that is a commencement speech you will never hear…at least not until the scam is complete.