The_Market
10-09-2008, 11:13 AM
It's from a friend; not a fwd. I know that he and I share many ideals, but do not agree on everything. What would your reply look like?
Being a paratrooper, I was always surprised to meet other paratroopers who hated jumping out of planes. This made no sense to me when I first heard a soldier talking about the nervousness and fear he feels when the door opens and like lemmings we all file to the door and jump out. Personally I get a rush of exhilaration, a feeling of excitement. If I didn’t I wouldn’t have gone airborne; the reason I went airborne is so I might jump out of planes, the extra pay was a bonus, the high speed, anal retentive unit a thorn in my side. Some people went airborne for the extra money, others to be with a unit that promised quick advancement, and they all went to the right place for it, but not me, I just wanted to jump out of planes.
America is getting ready to jump out of a plane. We are facing an economic down turn that may leave Americans in difficult positions for years to come. People will lose their homes, people are losing their jobs, and a lot of people are nervous and anxious. I personally don’t stand to lose a house, and due to my military service I am not at the moment financially constrained, but like everyone else, I am facing some economic hardship, it will be difficult for me to find a job, I can still get a loan for a house with little trouble thanks to my military service, but I don’t know if I’d be able to pay it off. Yet, rather than feeling nervous, I’m feeling excited… A sense of exhilaration.
I have to admit I’ve lost hope in either presidential candidate, Senator McCain is going to buy everyone a house and Senator Obama is going to raise taxes on those in the best position to improve the economy and raise tariffs to keep foreign investment out… Sounds eerily like 1929, we may just get a depression out of our economic slow down yet… I say bring it on. Let the American economy crumble! It’s only a little fire right now, but with a little gasoline we can real get it going! Raise taxes! Raise tariffs! Raise spending! Lets go for broke!
It is true next year I will be writing my mailings from the small island of New Zealand, so perhaps some of you think I say this because it will no longer be my problem, but I’m not so naïve, and economic crises in America means an economic crises in the world. Little socialist New Zealand will have many of the same problems America will have. I suppose if I wanted to escape the looming economic disaster perhaps Ireland would be the spot to go, at least they have figured out taxing production isn’t good for the economy so keep those taxes low…
You may be saying ‘he’s not serious, he doesn’t really want to see America go broke’. But I am. I’ve spent the last year in a country where the housing crisis consisted of people coming into your neighborhood and throwing a bomb through your window to watch your house burn... If you make it out alive, they'll be wating to shoot you. The only security these people have is the U.S. army, and the bleeding hearts are saying we should let the insurgents have Iraq. So much for compassion… I guess compassion is only important when it suits a political agenda…
But I digress. My point is, Americans don’t have any idea of what suffering is. My generation has never seen an economic down turn. With the biggest crises in the last ten years being the largest terrorist attack in American history, we weren’t even asked to sacrifice in order to defeat terror, our president asked us to go shopping.
The American spirit was forged in hardship. Our comfort has made us soft and lazy. Rather than fighting back, rather than seizing the crisis as the greatest opportunity in the last thirty years, we are sitting and waiting for the government to bail us out, and with the bail out comes a loss of opportunity.
So I say the situation can’t get bad enough. Let the economy burn, let our government crumble! Since none of our national leaders seem to have any idea how to properly fix the problem and will likely make the problem much worse, I’d say we don’t have much choice in the matter. Perhaps it will get so bad the government will need replacing, and perhaps what it will be replaced with will be much worse than what we have now, or maybe Americans will prove their spirit isn’t dead, maybe we will rise to the challenge like we always have. I’ll take my chances… It appears I don’t have a choice in the matter.
Being a paratrooper, I was always surprised to meet other paratroopers who hated jumping out of planes. This made no sense to me when I first heard a soldier talking about the nervousness and fear he feels when the door opens and like lemmings we all file to the door and jump out. Personally I get a rush of exhilaration, a feeling of excitement. If I didn’t I wouldn’t have gone airborne; the reason I went airborne is so I might jump out of planes, the extra pay was a bonus, the high speed, anal retentive unit a thorn in my side. Some people went airborne for the extra money, others to be with a unit that promised quick advancement, and they all went to the right place for it, but not me, I just wanted to jump out of planes.
America is getting ready to jump out of a plane. We are facing an economic down turn that may leave Americans in difficult positions for years to come. People will lose their homes, people are losing their jobs, and a lot of people are nervous and anxious. I personally don’t stand to lose a house, and due to my military service I am not at the moment financially constrained, but like everyone else, I am facing some economic hardship, it will be difficult for me to find a job, I can still get a loan for a house with little trouble thanks to my military service, but I don’t know if I’d be able to pay it off. Yet, rather than feeling nervous, I’m feeling excited… A sense of exhilaration.
I have to admit I’ve lost hope in either presidential candidate, Senator McCain is going to buy everyone a house and Senator Obama is going to raise taxes on those in the best position to improve the economy and raise tariffs to keep foreign investment out… Sounds eerily like 1929, we may just get a depression out of our economic slow down yet… I say bring it on. Let the American economy crumble! It’s only a little fire right now, but with a little gasoline we can real get it going! Raise taxes! Raise tariffs! Raise spending! Lets go for broke!
It is true next year I will be writing my mailings from the small island of New Zealand, so perhaps some of you think I say this because it will no longer be my problem, but I’m not so naïve, and economic crises in America means an economic crises in the world. Little socialist New Zealand will have many of the same problems America will have. I suppose if I wanted to escape the looming economic disaster perhaps Ireland would be the spot to go, at least they have figured out taxing production isn’t good for the economy so keep those taxes low…
You may be saying ‘he’s not serious, he doesn’t really want to see America go broke’. But I am. I’ve spent the last year in a country where the housing crisis consisted of people coming into your neighborhood and throwing a bomb through your window to watch your house burn... If you make it out alive, they'll be wating to shoot you. The only security these people have is the U.S. army, and the bleeding hearts are saying we should let the insurgents have Iraq. So much for compassion… I guess compassion is only important when it suits a political agenda…
But I digress. My point is, Americans don’t have any idea of what suffering is. My generation has never seen an economic down turn. With the biggest crises in the last ten years being the largest terrorist attack in American history, we weren’t even asked to sacrifice in order to defeat terror, our president asked us to go shopping.
The American spirit was forged in hardship. Our comfort has made us soft and lazy. Rather than fighting back, rather than seizing the crisis as the greatest opportunity in the last thirty years, we are sitting and waiting for the government to bail us out, and with the bail out comes a loss of opportunity.
So I say the situation can’t get bad enough. Let the economy burn, let our government crumble! Since none of our national leaders seem to have any idea how to properly fix the problem and will likely make the problem much worse, I’d say we don’t have much choice in the matter. Perhaps it will get so bad the government will need replacing, and perhaps what it will be replaced with will be much worse than what we have now, or maybe Americans will prove their spirit isn’t dead, maybe we will rise to the challenge like we always have. I’ll take my chances… It appears I don’t have a choice in the matter.