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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
Actually, Google shows that it's circulating on a lot of blogs and forums.
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Unfortunately here in the States, things are more polarized than I can ever remember. Coming here as a Canadian, I was so completely naive and basically ignorant. After University I was an Officer in the Canadian Navy, and came here when my time was served. I know nothing about politics, society, nor 'proper etiquette.' All I really knew were two things:
1) It was so much easier to get an education here- ANYONE can get a 4 year degree and,
2) It was so much easier to get a job. In Canada jobs were very hard to find-I couldn't get a good paying job as a teacher in Canada, it was too competitive. Of course, when I got my first teaching job I learned a really important life's lesson- 'It's not what you know, it's who you know' and on the other side of that- Teachers are horribly underpaid.
Since that time, I've managed to learn a few more important life's lessons. Survival here is easy if you have the drive to get a job and keep it. I started working in IT years ago and it was all about who did and didn't show up for work- and who pushed themselves to get bonuses and promotions. Of 10 'new hires' we'd keep one. That's about the way it goes.
The problem with the work force in the United States is that too many people don't WANT to work. Many people are happy receiving government benefits and scraping by. It baffles me but it's reality.
We have our middle class, which I guess I would classify myself as being a 'member' of who productively produce enough to comfortably make a living for themselves and for their children. And we have others who do a whole lot of complaining and don't really work and reap the benefits of what they sow.
There are greedy corporations where swindlers take their millions, but most of the BS comes from your every day, small business who make poor decisions when it comes to money allocation and other responsibilities. It's too easy here for a company to just shut down, not pay their employees and then declare bankruptcy- and then open under another guise. This is what is happening in 'middle america' and there needs to be a stop to it. Money is being overspent and buried in so many places because first class idiots are running the show. I just don't see how it will stop any time soon. The 'laws' are never really followed and things like 'unions' will never be tolerated.
The US is losing confidence in the world and the younger people are being taught to hate the very country that protects their choices. It's all a sad situation. Politicians make no sense- grown men and women who fight like school children.
It's a sad state of affairs in day to day life. I would just hope it gets somehow better. And NEITHER political party helps. Being 'President' in the moment is just that- forgettable.