Response to Chadman>>>

[ssd]

Thanks for the nice post in another thread. I enjoy reading your threads.

If I wanted to engage in a profanity filled rant....well, that is what I have a wife for! hahahaha

English is a beautiful, expansive language - I think swearing tends to weaken a person's point of view rather than strengthening it when there are some many other words you can choose to use.

I am fortunate for having a wealth of real world experience and I am a voracious reader.

I think the main issue we face as a country is neither party has it all correct yet neither is also really willing to negotiate on anything. And because of this, we suffer as a country. There are many examples of this.

I am steadfastly against lobbying as I think it detrimentally affects the legislative process. For the same reason, I am against public sector unions because again, it can introduce influence that is not healthy in the legislative process. I think the Supreme Courts recent ruling on corporate donations to campaigns is a bad call.
Too many politicians put self interest ahead of the national interest - it has become an issue of staying in office and in control of power rather than doing what the country needs.

 

[Duff Miver]

When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. ... As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.

George Patton

 

[Chadman]

ssd, thanks so much for your commentary and including me. I appreciate your views, but I'm conflicted about the public union thing for both issues of principality and personal issues moving forward. If you didn't know already, I hope to be teaching, coaching and volunteering in a school in the fall of 2012. I have worked incredibly hard to make this happen, after suffering from being laid off a good job due to the recent economic difficulties that our country dealt with.

I think that almost any situation has more than one solution, and the public union attacks have more than one way to look at them, IMO. I honestly appreciate both sides of the fence, and am suspicious of the motivations of both sides of that same fence.

I will deal with whatever fate deals me in the coming two years. I am completely fine with standing on my own performance, efforts and merits moving forward. But I am GREATLY concerned about non-educational interests having such a strong and complete control over the educational environment and opportunities of future generations - masquerading as being necessary and important to the future of the country.

I honestly think I agree with everything else you mentioned. I don't think many of us are that far off when it comes to issues we face. At least those that are actually educated on the issues, and don't spend 10% of their time trying to be political while not knowing a damn things about the issues they take a stand on.

Cheers! :toast: