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Date Posted: 14:58:22 01/21/02 Mon
Author: Patriot Lion saying "I Told You So!"
Author Host/IP: qam1b-sif-86.monroeaccess.net / 12.27.214.87
Subject: And you wonder why...?

Joe Sixpack got the axe at his firm and had to find a new job. He started his job search early by setting his alarm clock (made in JAPAN) for 6:00 am.

While his coffeepot (made in CHINA) was brewing, Joe shaved with his electric razor (made in HONG KONG). He then put on a dress shirt (made in SRI LANKA), designer jeans (made in SINGAPORE), and tennis shoes (made in KOREA).

After cooking breakfast in his new electric skillet (made in INDIA), He sat down with his calculator (made in MEXICO), to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (made in SWIZTERLAND) to the radio (made in JAPAN), he got in his car (made in GERMANY), and began his search for a good paying AMERICAN job.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day, Joe decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (made in BRAZIL), poured himself a glass of wine (made in FRANCE), and turned on his TV (made in INDONESIA), and wondered - "Why can't I find a good paying job in AMERICA?"

Could it be that he found good old-fashioned unemployment MADE IN AMERICA by a Congress and an uniformed, illiterate electorate that cannot see the inevitable outcome of half a century of failed liberal policies before they happen? Isn't it long past the time for us to stop importing terrorists and those who refuse to adapt to our culture and language and stop exporting jobs? Let's do it the other way for a while.

Let's tell Vicente Fox of Mexico that his citizens have no RIGHT to sneak into our country illegally and send one-twelvth (1/12) of our National Domestic Product to his country. Let's tell the Japanese that they can no longer only purchase products from other Japanese owned firms in the U. S., thereby skirting the law that says they must purchase American made products. Let's tell them also that they can no longer reserve top management and supervisory positions in the U. S. firms they own for Japanese imports. Let's tell all those who come here and mutter about how "terrible the United States is" just what Lewis Grizzard said so eloquently... "Delta is ready when you are."

Let's also tell our "professional educators and teachers" that Johnny and Jane had better damned well learn how to read, write, spell, calculate basic arithemtic functions and know something about REAL science and REAL history in elementary school or we will find real TEACHERS and REAL EDUCATORS to replace them who will provide the service we pay them to provide with our tax dollars without trying to browbeat us with their degrees in "childhood development." We need to stop kowtowing to these "professional educators" who are actually arrogant liberal terrorists imbued with a belief that they know best how to parent our children than do the parents of those children. They refuse to pay attention to their real bosses - US! We don't care how "educated" they are in "child psychology" and "educational theory." Until they demand that Johnny and Jane can master the course work for the next level of development and provide him or her with those skills, they need to repeat the work until they get it right. Only then can Johnny and Jane have any real "positive self image." If we do a job and it is not right, we have to do it again until it is right or we have to find work within our scope of competence. We don't just promote the poor work anyway. That's what our schools do every day in these "enlightened" times.

While we're at it, let's tell our children that they are children and they do not rule the roost. Let's smack the daylights out of the first bleeding heart idiot who complains when one of us liberally applies some old fashioned discipline to the seat of the pants of a misbehaving child. We MUST break the news to them that ADD, ADHD and the entire gamut of alphabet soup EXCUSES for misbehavior are all just that... EXCUSES. All are successfully treatable with a well placed, cupped parental hand applied several times to the buttocks of the miscreant brat... and that's EXACTLY what they are... BRATS. These "disorders" are MOST OFTEN simply the symptoms of parents too lazy and too self absorbed to assume the very real burdens of parenting.

All of us understand that taking time to help a child with homework, supervising childhood play and household chores detracts from a parent's time to "have time for myself." They had time for themselves at an easily identified point in time. Take the child's current age in years, months, weeks and days and simply add nine months. Take that number and subtract it from today's date and there you have it! Today is the day to pay the piper. You've already danced the dance.

Let's let Johnny and Jane know that they don't get awards and honors for simply being alive and showing up when it suits them to do so. Those rewards and recognition only come when they ACCOMPLISH something. The real world doesn't, or shouldn't attempt to, make a person give up a portion of his orr her earned income to those who don't earn as much unless you are discussing redistribution of wealth schemes thought up by Congress and well-intentioned, but misguided liberals. Donald Trump and Bill Gates don't need to deposit a penny in my bank account. They earned what they got and it is THEIRS alone. If our liberal teachers and educators have their way, Johnny and Jane won't be encouraged to do as they did to accumulate wealth. They will grow up to think that they are entitled to a portion of those hard earned dollars someone else got through superior efforts and productivity simply because they didn't do as well. Look around you. Listem. That's what they think now. And, they just cannot understand the results they obtained with such thinking.

Joe Sixpack's employment woes started in elementary school. His problems were MADE IN AMERICA.

But then, what the Hell do I know?

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Replies:

Re: And you wonder why...? -- Bidcaller, 15:18:11 01/21/02 Mon
- Re: And you wonder why...? -- Laf - humbly, 00:00:38 01/22/02 Tue
  - Some facts that support what I have said here -- Diogenes Lion, with lamp and facts in hand, 15:00:03 01/22/02 Tue