I am oft known as a right wing pundit who spouts nothing more than party line rhetoric and stands behind a set of principles that is no longer viable in today's society. I know I am a stalwart against a tide of short sighted and often disengenuious ideals. I wake every morning believing that I live in one of the greatest nations on our current planet. I teach my children to be proud of their nation, their ancestry, and the beliefs they have been brought up with. I have to come to realize, however, that my family does not, nor has it ever, represent the true American dream.
I have failed in the sense that I am the first person in three generations to fail out of High School. I am learning from people I know and love, that because I do not sweat at my job or strain my back in an effort to build this nation, I am less and deserve less. I look at my employer, who struggles daily to stay afloat and keep serving as well as they do...and to serve more with less. Upon seeing the struggle of the one who gives my family food and shelter, I find it difficult to ask for more from them. In America today, that makes me a failure.
I cannot willfully abandon my debts or duty to pay them. I cannot, with any pride, ask for something from my government which I do not need or would not be willing to return. Yet my government will spend on things that help none but a select few.
In my dreams I imagine a place where the government builds up the workforce in the hopes that the many will then lend a hand to the few. Never does a time come in that dream where the many are beaten down to be on the same level as the few and downtrodden. I see no purpose in destroying a level of society that has often been the most prosperous part of our nation. The men and women who put in their nine to fives are now expected to shoulder the few. I know seven million unemployed sounds like a great number. In the grand scheme of things, it is not. We have over 300 million people in this country. We have 140 million taxpayers. You do the math...this cannot work.
The entitlement belief is one that I cannot and will not stomach. If I can't buy it, I don't need it badly enough. I am lucky enough to have a job where I can fill in at other places if money needs to be had. I am also lucky enough to have a wife and family who would rather skrimp on this or that just to have me home that extra day. We will survive this new America. I just hope that "yes we can" rebuild our nation into a viable and productive nation. From what I have seen from the District of Columbia lately, I fear we have lost the war.
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Always success. Always!
"Failed out of high school? C'mon, Bill. It is inappropriate to suggest that you "failed" at anything. High school and college abandon and damage people constantly. That is the way the system works -- Gouge some to advantage others.
As a high school janitor I designed and built our High School Bowl computer for intellectual competitions. Students and faculty were incapable of comprehending that a janitor could do an intellectual thing they could not match (but they cheerfully used the sturdy, half-pound device that far outperformed the expensive 100-pound device).
The right approach seems to be to define success for yourself and achieve that.
Al Gore defined his success as the political manipulation of masses. He achieved his success. His intellectual and moral failures in science are moot.
The Obama nation is set to give away all that guys like you earned for the rest of us -- Gouge some to advantage others. Those folks are achieving their goals. Their alternative goals are on the way and no amount of explanation/argument will change their minds. Justice is not a goal for them.
I like Paraguay. I could easily find a willing crew to build my inventions and I could pay out of profit. (You won't do that here.)
Our once lovely nation is sphinctering closed. Land will have less value. Wages will pay for less. Crushing populations will take the very air that your children need to breathe. We have lost the war.
Now go win a new war for yourself.
Sucess...
After reading Jacks post I must agree that you need to find sucess in yourself. Its not if you went to college, or if you finished high school. Sucess is having that feeling that you did the right things with your life. You dont need a piece of paper to tell you that you are sucessful or a reject. Take small stepts to reach your goals, and work on them. I am 29 years old and just now in college. I got my GED at the age of 24. Its never too late to follow your goals. You could get your GED at the age of 80 if you wanted to. These are your goals and you need to make a plan of attack on how to achive them. Taking small steps and never looking back, you can do anything. You just have to want it bad enough. You can do it!!!
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