Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute has a great opinion piece in National Review Online today that juxtaposes the ludicrous hypocrisy of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement with what Steve Jobs did to create value in the world. If you want to know what is both wrong and right with America, then you should really give this a read. I liked the final paragraph:

In fact, the next time someone suggests that what we need is more taxes, more regulation, more class warfare, more government programs, we should instead suggest that what we really need are policies that encourage[s] a poor boy from San Francisco to become rich and thereby make the rest of us a little richer as well.

What we need is less government and more Jobs (pun intended…). The only thing that will save us as a country is to get rid of government bureaucracy, return to true constitutional policies and let people build their own lives under their own direction fueled by their own ambition and hard work.

This is an absolutely wonderful little blog post apparently from one of Steve’s neighbors in Palo Alto. It gives a lot more quiet insight into a man whose private life seems to have been truly private.

While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era,  I won’t be pondering the MacBook Air I write on or the iPhone I talk on. I will think of the day I saw him at his son’s high school graduation. There Steve stood, tears streaming down his cheeks, his smile wide and proud, as his son received his diploma and walked on into his own bright future leaving behind a good man and a good father who can be sure of the rightness of this, perhaps his most important legacy of all.

He may have changed the world for the rest of us, but these kinds of experiences are what those closest to him will forever remember with the greatest fondness.

Read the entire article here at Lisen’s “Blog” – An Angle of PrismWork.