Obamus Maximus

clipped from pajamasmedia.com Evidently each of us has a duty to optimize our educations so we can maximize our earnings and give our country the full benefit of our talents. “Every American will need to get more than a high school diploma,” Obama decrees. But why stop there? If someone with strong mathematical and spatial reasoning abilities majors in sociology instead of engineering, it’s plain that he will not be giving his country as much value (and tax revenue) as he could. What about the potential doctor who decides to play the violin or the writer who could have been a software developer? Given Obama’s premise, it’s hard to see why such choices should be permitted, especially when the country is so generously subsidizing higher education. We’ve got to all contribute to our society according to our abilities, not our desires, so that we can fulfill the needs of those less fortunate. To do otherwise — to pursue a career because of our selfish “interest” in it — would be unpatriotic.