
The question of experience and qualifications, as it applies to employment, has taken a new turn in this wild and wacky culture of ours and is being highlighted by the current squabbling for the office of President.
My permanent stand as it concerns political elections is neutral. The last President who stirred my passions was Abraham Lincoln—so that should set my feelings in stone.
If you want to side with John McCain, the only thing Obama is qualified to do is be a good partner in a game of horse (that’s a basketball game of skill involving shooting the ball--just in case you were born on a horse farm in West Chester, New York). McCain certainly has a point. After all, it was just a few years ago that Obama was a Junior Senator in the legislature of a state whose name no one can pronounce. (Is it, Il-A-Noy, Il-A-Noise, or Il-La-Nwa?)
Obama, on the other hand has some factual garbage to throw in McCann’s direction. If experience counts for so much—and the Bush Administration had some of best money can buy with the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.-- how come the country is so screwed up? We are about a “gazillion dollars” in debt, we are fighting a couple of wars with professed uncertainty about our purpose for doing so, inflation is going crazy—and unemployment is making its move—and the once mighty U.S. Dollar might compete with Zimbabwe’s if it depreciates anymore. Let’s hear it for experience!
We Doomers have known about these challenges for a long time ago. This is the generation, despite are historical successes in making money and acquiring wealth, that also is getting it right up the “you know what” in our quest to continue to enjoy our prosperity. Just take a look at all the history:
§ Sure, many of us have done well professionally, but whatever happened to job security. We have contributed to our own antiguity, especially if we have participated in the computer industry and aided its development. We are the carriage makers of our generation. What happened to the “We Are Family” experience that all the big corporations used to propagandize and market as part of your job and benefits? You’ll have to play the Sly and the Family Stones tune and light one up if want to regain that feeling. Just go ask some house painter who used to fly for Delta or some mid-level executive who spent 15 years with the AT&T family and is now working for Radio Shack as a clerk.
My permanent stand as it concerns political elections is neutral. The last President who stirred my passions was Abraham Lincoln—so that should set my feelings in stone.
If you want to side with John McCain, the only thing Obama is qualified to do is be a good partner in a game of horse (that’s a basketball game of skill involving shooting the ball--just in case you were born on a horse farm in West Chester, New York). McCain certainly has a point. After all, it was just a few years ago that Obama was a Junior Senator in the legislature of a state whose name no one can pronounce. (Is it, Il-A-Noy, Il-A-Noise, or Il-La-Nwa?)
Obama, on the other hand has some factual garbage to throw in McCann’s direction. If experience counts for so much—and the Bush Administration had some of best money can buy with the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.-- how come the country is so screwed up? We are about a “gazillion dollars” in debt, we are fighting a couple of wars with professed uncertainty about our purpose for doing so, inflation is going crazy—and unemployment is making its move—and the once mighty U.S. Dollar might compete with Zimbabwe’s if it depreciates anymore. Let’s hear it for experience!
We Doomers have known about these challenges for a long time ago. This is the generation, despite are historical successes in making money and acquiring wealth, that also is getting it right up the “you know what” in our quest to continue to enjoy our prosperity. Just take a look at all the history:
§ Sure, many of us have done well professionally, but whatever happened to job security. We have contributed to our own antiguity, especially if we have participated in the computer industry and aided its development. We are the carriage makers of our generation. What happened to the “We Are Family” experience that all the big corporations used to propagandize and market as part of your job and benefits? You’ll have to play the Sly and the Family Stones tune and light one up if want to regain that feeling. Just go ask some house painter who used to fly for Delta or some mid-level executive who spent 15 years with the AT&T family and is now working for Radio Shack as a clerk.
§ And what about that money that was put away for something called retirement? Do we have any left considering the state of the stock market, falling interest rates, loss in the housing equity market, and that’s assuming we haven’t been defrauded by the “keepers of the gate”—Enron, anyone?
§ Many of us are being pushed aside—for the good of the company—before we reach the age of 50;entirely, too young—practically and emotionally—to lay down and get ready to die. Hell, science is keeping us alive longer which even makes it harder. What a bitch!
§ Not all of us have been college graduates and climbed the ladder. Sometimes we all forget that a large percentage of our population is born and dies in the same house. What about those guys?
§ If we are the “Success Generation”, the Boomers, why all the divorces—unsuccessful marriages and freaked out kids? Prosperity breeds, what? Support groups for everyone?
A friend has been irregularly employed for 3 years. He speaks Spanish. He has experience in several businesses as a leader and owner. He has managed people, made forecasts, and even has taken part in strategic business planning.
He recently has been rejected, several times, in applications to work in commercial kitchens as a cook’s helper. The pay would have been $9 per hour if he had been accepted. He was over-qualified for that position—under qualified for others, and disqualified from all!
McCain might have a problem if he has ever read a history book. Once upon a time there was a man whose highest public office and experience had been as a representative in the State Legislature of Illinois and as a one-term congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives. He had no military experience whatsoever, but, nevertheless, educated himself in such matters and became one of our most active Presidents as a Commander-In-Chief. He also accomplished a few other noteworthy achievements.
His name was Abraham Lincoln!
Billy P
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