An excerpt from Michelle Obama’s commencement address this past weekend at University of California, Merced .

“Remember that you are blessed — remember that in exchange for those blessings you must give something back,” Obama told the crowd. “You must reach back and pull someone up. You must bend down and let someone else stand on your shoulders so that they can see a brighter future.”

Wrong…that’s slavery to suggest that one MUST bend down to another.

I’d say to go out and produce something. Take your idea,  and in furtherance of your own self interest, go and produce or create something of value that someone else will want to trade the dollars they earn from their work to you for what you have produced. Then, help someone by hiring them. But hire them not out of any ethical or moral obligation to do so but because they have a skill to trade to you for your dollars.

That’s capitalism…something some in government are trying to erase from memory.