Money quote(s):
"Consider the difference between your average life-coddled "occupy" whatever ninny, with his or her apparent dental care, privileges of upbringing, friggin clothes and iPhones (THANKS MOM!), and education, and the American Soldier.
American soldiers know about field sanitation, for one thing.
"It's kind of difficult for me to give a rat's ass about these incoherent ninnies who are occupying whatever, and down-twinkling, except to note that they are being pushed at us through the media, and the left, in order to advance the leftist agenda. So a little perspective doesn't hurt. Military service isn't for everyone. But working and supporting yourself, and your family if you have one, that kinda is for everyone. It's how life works." (Bold typeface added for emphasis. - CAA.)
I get that there's frustration, about the economy, and anxiety, about the future, but CAA's resume and background didn't have a lot of free time available to spend doing non-income producing stuff for weeks on end.
Even when I was unemployed (and CAA has been, variously, "down-sized," "right-sized", and, my personal favorite, "re-engineered" at different times) I was generally looking for work full-time and working part-time jobs (hello restaurants!) to make my savings last a little longer.
"And another thing: John Adams put us some f'n knowledge, when he said,
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."
That quote just can't get re-posted enough.
10/16
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