Posted on 12/07/2002 4:41:36 AM PST by sarcasm
So is IT consultant. Why should I drop from the middle class to the lower class if I don't have to? That's the American way??? That's idiocy.
And who's begging or whining (and I RESENT that implication!)? I've been a taxpayer in this country for almost 30 years now. I've paid those taxes so that when times like this happen, I'd have a govt to back me up when things got tight, but they're out to lunch.
Instead, they're letting anybody who can spell the word computer into this country on an H1B visa so that they can do the same job for a FAR cheaper price which employers jump at. Why bother to have a government if they're going to do us out of a well paying job and replace it with a gutter job (and yes, I consider a burger flipper or convenience store checker a gutter job!)
If you expect me to go from a $45/hr job to a $13/hr job without complaining, FORGET IT! I spent hundreds of days and nights working literally around the clock to get where I've been and have worked my buns off. Why bother to go to college or put in thousands of extra hours on the job, just to end up with a minimum wage job??
I'm not lazy and I've always LOVED my job. But, yes, I'll just HATE a minimum wage job because that will mean that I have to give up my house, my middle class life and descend into a pit of despair for heavens knows how long.
I'm not sitting on my hands. I'm looking to get out of the computer industry and break into the writing market. I'd planned that years ago and have just accelerated my schedule.
Don't give me any more BS about begging and whining please.
Or a big mustache or no mustache at all:
Big mustache.
No mustache.
Make your pick.
The entire reason that my proposal is interesting to the automotive companies is that is saves human labor. Precisely, it saves rooms full of people answering phones that cost $35,000+ each year.
All the fabulous technology that people enjoy is built by people who work their butts off. Other people get to enjoy the fruits of their labors. In my experience, the reward for a job well done on a high tech task is to be thrown into the fire on the next one. It pays the bills, but doesn't leave much time to enjoy life.
The political/economic system in the U.S. is far more socialistic than it should be. It is wrong for the government to steal half of my gross earnings to subsidize other people. I have to generate a volume of income to keep my two oldest sons in college. Once that is complete, I have the option of pissing off the politicians by dropping my income to a level where their progressive ripoff scheme is no longer making me a slave to their social engineering.
We don't have to worry about becoming socialized or communized,...we're already there.
We need to return to Him first, then the basics already enunciated in the Constitution which we've eroded over the years by cumbersome embellishment.
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