Barbara Ehrenreich gives the graduating class of 2007 a realistic look at what's in store for them in the post-college world. Please visit her new organizations website which advocates for the shrinking middle class: www.unitedprofessionals.org.
I am with her on not embracing fake optimism, but she doesn't do solutions either. There is always room for despair. Ehrenreich's highly selective perspective is as much a creation as a description, and she has no solutions. Every time this woman speaks, the oxygen and light drains out of the room. I'm interested in creative solutions and she has none. People with different perspectives from her's, both liberal and conservative, will be the ones to create solutions. And we will create them!
I am with her on not embracing fake optimism, but she doesn't do solutions either. There is always room for despair. Ehrenreich's highly selective perspective is as much a creation as a description, and she has no solutions. Every time this woman speaks, the oxygen and light drains out of the room. I'm interested in creative solutions and she has none. People with different perspectives from her's, both liberal and conservative, will be the ones to create solutions. And we will create them!
badad4444 1 year ago
Now and then, you find a truth teller. When you spot one, it is a rare thing.
lucki39284 2 years ago
Such an inspirational commencement speech.
blackberryjuice1 2 years ago