by Thomas Craig

Our Country has certainly underwent an amazing "change".  President Obama has accelerated the decline of Capitalism and the degradation of our culture by confusing the notions of equality that the Founding Fathers often spoke of.  Americans, as well as all people, are equal in the sense that we all share the same rights.  We all are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  We are NOT all equal in intelligence, work ethic, and we certainly should not be equal when it comes to the rewards of our hard work.

In what has become a sad and ridiculous culture of socialist values, one school has surely embraced the spirit of mediocrity.  Central York High School in Pennsylvania has decided to stop selecting the highest acheiving student of the graduating class to be the valedictorian.  The school has actually not had a valedictorian for a few years now, instead they had an awards ceremony to honor the top two students with the highest grades.  Not even this ceremony will take place now.  The school has decided that having a valedictorian makes the students "too competitive".  The school actually thinks that it is a bad thing that their students are competitive regarding obtaining high grades.  Instead, now even the laziest, marijuana smoking, class skipping, under-acheiving student will not have to have his feelings hurt by witnessing the accolades for a student who worked harder than every other student in their school.  Those students who worked hard for four years are now being told by the school that their efforts don't matter and that they are no better than the students with the lowest grades.

I'm going to assume that the student who should have been the valedictorian is intelligent enough to understand the injustice done to him or her.  I'm also sure that their ambitions which led to their high grades were greater than just becoming the valedictorian.  I'm mainly concerned with the rest of the students.  These students are being taught the liberal philosophy that they don't have to work hard and that people who do work hard and are smarter than they are, should not receive any benefits that they don't receive.  It is the core of socialism.  No matter what you do, you can not acheive any more than your neighbors do.  I have no doubt that the students will go on to have jobs where they demand recognition and rewards for the most menial of tasks.  The notion of competition and striving to be better is completely lost to them. 

After all, they grew up playing sports where you got a trophy no matter if you won or lost, idolized worthless and meaningless celebrities who are famous not for their talents but for having sex on film, and of course, being told that no matter how little you work in school, you will be rewarded the same as those who really deserve it. 

I don't understand why this country has so turned it's back on capitalism.  Capitalism is what made our country the wealthiest and most innovative land the world has ever seen.  As of late, the idea of capitalism has such a negative context to it.  It is truly depressing being alive to witness the decline of American values.  I wonder sometimes what the Romans thought as their civilization began their fall.  Did they worry as their culture was taken from them by false and misleading men?  Did they realize that their Empire would not last if they allowed their government to change all that was right and all that their nation was built upon?  Do we?

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