ranyilliams said:
Okay, first off, I guess I will have to post my political stance.
So I'm (-1.62,-.97) from the center of the Political "Galaxy". But, I tend to lean to the right on some key issues. I'm against Gun Control, I believe a major part of the Military should be on the boarder, mostly around Texas. But, I support the legalization of Marijuana and think the Immigration should be more readily available.
The one thing I find wrong with these Protesters is that they're wanting to destroy what their fore-fathers/mothers have built. Sure, we're in an economic depression now, it happens in cycles, and people are obviously effected. But, in time it will right itself so long as there are no dangerously different changes to the system. I acknowledge that the current System is corrupt, but not to the point that my fellow generation is complaining about.
To put a personal spin on this, if I may. My father grew up in rural Kansas, he grew up in a tad abusive household, with a paddle and the like. And by the time he was my age (I'm seventeen) he had secured a decent job working on an Oil Rig in Texas, staying with a High School friend and returning home on the weekends. He made a decent living, equivalent to someone with their Assoc. Degree today. This went on until he was 19 where when he was moving some piping, a securing latch snapped causing his hands to be crushed where upon he upped and just walked off the Oil Rig, collecting his pay and leaving back for Kansas as soon as he healed. During this time he had a deep sense of Capitalism embedded in him, but during this time, you earned by how hard you worked.
A few years down the line, he upped and enlisted with the US Marines. Spent thirteen years of his Life as an Engineer with the Seventh. But, after thirteen years of dedicated service. The Gov't shafted him after the Cluster Fuck the was Somalia.
This is were it gets interesting.
After the Gov't shafted him, leaving him nearly no Pension, no notice and him, my mother and my three year old self and six month old sister, with zero source of income. He was in the same situation that these kids were complaining about today. But did my father up and say 'fuck it?', raise his kids on welfare and be lazy in his remaining days?
Fuck no.
He went out to the unemployment office and filed for every available job he could get his hands on, with only a '75 High School Education, several years mechanical experience and six months spent in the shit hole of Somalia. He landed a job at a Glass plant near Phoenix, wherein which he had two days off a month, and he was required to service an are, from the Arizona/New Mexico/Mexico boarder all the way up to Las Vegas. Sure, his hours were shit, he made only 2/3 his E-3 pay and hardly ever seeing his family. And he still busted his ass working. And after a year with only 24 days spent with his family, he gave his boss the notice, went to the Arizona Dept. of Corrections went through training with an almost militant attitude and securing a decent job in Florence at a Max-Sec Prison. After nearly two years of living near the Poverty line, my Father made enough to get him and his family on his feet. He bought a two story house in the suburb of Phoenix. Where he sat comfortably for eight years as a team member on the Special Reaction and Execution Team.
He moved down to Yuma after eight years after my mother got a job teaching there. Where in the Warden of the Florence Prison refused to cooperate with the Yuma Warden. My father was out of the house for three months, leaving me, my mother and my sister basically fatherless. This was the Glass Plant all over again. Again, he kept his resolve and finished out his three month term in Florence where as soon as he was released made a B-Line to Yuma, with only two tickets, topping his speed at 102mph. And now, we sit comfortably in Yuma, enjoying our days together.
I don't expect you to believe any of this, it being the Internet and all. But I felt as if I had to post it as proof that you can indeed be shafted by the System, and still recover you, your finances and your family enough for them to live comfortable. Sure you have to bust your ass day in and day out, but it's obviously worth it for your kids to enjoy the strongest Internet connecting for a 3 block radius.
This is why I think that the Occupy Everything movement is bullshit. These kids have a college education that their parents fronted for them so they can get a degree, where most of them blew it on parties and a dead Major, and now their whining about it. When my own father is a testament to the fact that no matter how terrible the financial situation you can
always recover so long as you put your back into it and never question your orders. This is why I'm so strongly against this movement, and this is why I'm being so aggressive in my opinions. Now, kind sir, explain to me why we should give them what they want, when they have so obviously not worked hard enough for it?
Now, I'm going to the local Gun Show with my family, I hope to come back and see you rebuttal. Cheers!
