Posted on 12/17/2002 12:02:32 AM PST by JohnHuang2
They may resent, envy, hate and distrust "them", as a rebellious teenager might - which is what this article captures. Tney may want just want "them" to "take care of everything", which is the so called compassionate side of liberalism. They may cheer on anyone who seems to be standing up to "them", such as tyrants and terrorists.
Some liberals grow up and become responsible adults. Some die first. Meanwhile, they are fertile ground for greedy, manipulative power seekers, which are a disease of society that feeds on its immature members. The danger of rat poop is not so much the poop, but the disease that feeds on it. The danger of liberals is not so much the liberal, who is child-like, but the tyrants who feed on them, such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam, Klintoon & Hitlary, bin Laden, many currently atop the DemoRat party, ...
Yeah .... but like the Kennedy's those are the ones who didn't ear it. Ever notice how the tax codes that they make always exempt them?
Truth be told, I know a LOT of " trust fund " kids ( now adults of various ages ), who have jobs and work very hard. I also know many wealthy people who earned their money and had no help at all; not from anyone.
You may be " sick " of the class warfare appellation ; however, you certainly engage in it. Get over it.
Sure, there are people who work hard, long hours and get nowhere. They either got little education, chose the wrong field, don't know how to handle the money that they DO make, all of the afrementioned, or something else just as bad.
I ask again ... what's YOUR problem ?
I'll stop complaining about class warfare, when you go silent on FR about what angers you. Get over it, yourself!
Sure, there are people who work hard, long hours and get nowhere. They either got little education, chose the wrong field, don't know how to handle the money that they DO make, all of the afrementioned, or something else just as bad.
I spoke of people who earn college degrees, work 60-80 hours a week, and still don't earn spit ... and you think I need a lesson in reading comprehension?!
I ask again ... what's YOUR problem ?
I'm annoyed by stupid, dishonest people of all political persuasions.
Tsk, tsk, tsk ... get over yourself , babycakes. :-)
I think liberals are more often control freaks. I read another thread today that detailed a thread over at DU where the participants were dreaming of a good old fashioned command economy. And it occured to me that this sort of stuff is most appealing to somebody with an education, a good pedigree, or some reason to not fear that they would be fed into a state controlled industrial machine and spat out the other side to wait in a bread line.
People are more likely to support such a thing when they can see themsleves as masters of such a world.
If someone wants to make a lot of money and is willing to work long hours, then they had best figure out what kinds of jobs pay big checks. Today, a mere Bachelor degree is about as useful as a high school diploma was in the 1950s. With Masters degrees becoming so common, soon, those too won't buy one into a high paying job. Of course this is ridicculous; however, you have to play by the rules of the times. Then again, there are still some jobs, that don't require advanced degrees, in order to make the big bucks. One just has to be very good at something that is highly renumerated for.
Why are you so sour ? You sound as though you can't stand your own father, nor much of the rest of the populace. Heck, you still sound Marxist; truth be told.You are annoyed by anyone, who disagrees with you ; even if they are correct and you are blindsided by bias and disgruntlement.
Shakespeare had a nice line about nothing being more like a serpant's tooth, like an ungrateful child. :-)
I spent a year pursuing an MS in pathogenic bacteriology, but dropped it when a severe case of pneumonia almost killed me. I picked up a job at $4.75 an hour in 1977. College grad w/all course work completed for MS. Now, a member of Local 569 IBEW and tending to the full range of electronics on 180 tuna boats, 14 base stations and assorted tugs, freighters and pleasure boats for fill. A far cry from genetics engineering. This little "wallow" in a blue collar job made me a very good hardware engineer (analog and digital) with lots of field experience. I left that job at $9.10 and moved to a "white collar" toll equipment engineering job at $19,000 per year...4 years following graduation.
The engineering job bored me to tears. I took a second job teaching electronics at the local college. That paid for a private pilot's license and a room full of computer equipment that I built one board at a time. Year 2 at the phone company yielded a first good raise to $36K (1981). I convinced the company to move me to a software support job. Finally, I was in my element. I worked 13 hours per day, 7 days a week for 2 years. That netted a promotion to $42K per year. July to December 1985 was "slowed" to 10 hour days during treatment for cancer. The company continued to heap very high risk projects in my lap. I continued to outperform my co-workers (who worked no more than 8 hour days with at least two 20 minute coffee breaks and a full hour for lunch). After two high profile successes on projects with $20 million on the bottom line, I had another promotion to $60K/year. 10 years after graduation.
In 1992, I moved to a new company as my old company downsized 6,000 employees. The continued to throw high profile, high risk stuff my way. I performed. They increased my pay to $78K.
In 1996, an internet startup needed my expertise to engineer a very large e-commerce platform. It was an industry first. It included direct connections to the banking networks. Again, more high risk. Once again, high performance. A raise to $83K. BTW, I'm working 14 hour days, 7 days a week. They continued to plaster me with work and increased my pay to $103K in 1998. I ran into a problem at that point. Carpal tunnel syndrome. I couldn't open doors, lift glasses or shift my car. The money was damn good, but at that pace I was on the way to being a cripple for life. This is now 22 years after graduation.
I resumed work at the office that I had joined in 1992. My new task was to build a million user ISP for a company in Denver, CO AND be technical lead of a maintenance software program for the 747 fleet of a certain German airline. Successes on both accounts and months spent in Germany and Denver away from my family. Stock options were offered as compensation for the horrific hours and extended time out of the country.
In 2000, I decided to relocate my family from California to Idaho. Entirely at my expense. That sucked up $60K of my home equity from the San Diego house. I spent all but 69 days working in San Diego while my family was at home in Idaho. 250 hours per month (for 160 hours pay). That contract continued until June 2002 when I was laid off. At that point I cashed out 80% of my stock and paid off the home mortgage. During the 6 weeks I was "laid off", I used accrued vacation to keep the bills paid. By mid-August, I had succeeded in rounding up $6 million in new business for the company. My layoff was over.
Twenty six years after graduating from college, I'm making $116K per year and my house is paid off. I'm 46. I'm one of those guys that Boortz is talking about. The nice people that were working as toll equipment engineers when I moved to that job in 1980...retired as toll equipment engineers. They all had degrees too. The difference is that they only worked the minimum 8 hours that was asked of them.
I'm not "rich". What I have is the result of damn hard work. Nothing was ever handed to me. People who don't know me think I just another lucky white male who was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
Getting back to Boortz. He's not an illiterate drunk on a bar stool. He's a disillusioned conservative lawyer who makes an honest living as talk show host. Roger Hedgecock is another conservative lawyer talk show host in San Diego. I find both of these guys to be entertaining and informative. The nice thing is that I can listen to them on the radio while still knocking out productive work.
My apologies to others on the thread for sucking up this extra bandwidth.
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