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rulemylife -> RE: Bush Is A Saint (6/2/2008 2:38:14 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomAviator
Chickpea, I see where youre coming from but I just dont buy it. I didnt grow up with privelage or opportunity. My dad was a US Navy Master Chief. In fact he was the master chief from hell - he wasnt addressed as "dad" he was "Master Chief". His idea of how to comfort an injured child was to tell me that "pain is your friend its your bodys way of telling you that you aint dead yet!" He taught me how to swim by throwing me off a dock and screaming "HOW BAD DO YOU WANNA LIVE PUSSY! TREAD THAT MOTHERFUCKING WATER!!!" He saw me being picked on when he picked me up from school and he made me get back out of the car to "beat that little motherfuckers face in, and if you lose them Im gonna kick your fucking ass!" No shit, he told me walk right up to the kid, and "punch him right in the snotbox then when you get him down kick his pussy face in"... Meanwhile HE kept the teachers from breaking it up, and thereafter my bully problem was solved. Growing up I hated him, but now that Im an adult I see he made me strong. I NEVER worked a minimum wage job in my life... I started out in construction as an assistant on a blasting crew drilling holes and eventually working with explosives. Ive done commercial diving / underwater welding. I put myself through the number 4 engineering college in the USA - in 3 years - while working on the midnight to eight shift as an EMT. I worked a summer on a wildland fire crew for the BLM. Ive never in my life done the McDonalds thing for minimum wage. When I graduated college, I joined the US Navy where Officer Candidate School was a breeze compared to growing up with my dad! Once I finished active duty in the Navy I went into the civilian world flight instructing and flying LearJets for an air ambulance company... Then I started my own business, after which I started another business. Nothing in my life was ever handed to me and I didnt get anything because the Govt "cared about me" or "was there to help me" I EARNED everything including the butter bars they put on my shoulders after OCS and the Gold Wings they pinned to my chest when I finished flight school and I paid for my six million bucks worth of flight training by putting my ass on the line over the skies of Iraq, then Somalia, then Iraq again... People dont need a helping hand, they need to cowboy up and to take charge of their lives and to do what it takes to make THEMSELVES a sucess. You dont need privelage or influence. If a person can come up with $20 to start they can grow a business and earn a handsome living in this country.... They just need to do it, even if it means learning some things along the way or doing some unpleasant tasks others may not want to do. The illegal alien who picks up my dog shit earns more than most americans because hes not afraid to work and to fill a need.
Your dad was a US Navy Master Chief but you don't think you grew up privileged? Tell that to the person whose dad was the IHOP Chief Dishwasher. Compare his opportunities to yours. It's a little easier to "cowboy up" when you don't have to worry about where your next meal is coming from.
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