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Note from Darren: At the
risk of turning a flight instructor
website into political arena football, I just couldn't pass up the
opportunity to post this well considered response to Captain Anonymous' 3rd
article regarding
America's standing in the world.
Great article from Capt
Anonymous. Unfortunately, it comes way too late. He makes
it sound like this just started occurring recently. On the
contrary - this has been going on for a long, long time. To point
the finger at Walmart and say that "they are to blame" is quite
hypocritical. I'd like to ask Capt. Anonymous when the last time
was that he shopped there. Bet it was quite recent. And, if
says he hasn't, and sticks to his guns, I'd then ask him where he went
to buy his last set of sneakers, or maybe bar-b-que grill. What
would he say? Kmart, Home Depot, Lowe's, Sears? The fact is that
all of these companies sell merchandise that originates primarily in,
you guessed it, China.
This is not to say that I am supporter of Walmart. On the
contrary - I personally cannot stand going there. I think their
establishments are ridiculously disgusting and completely
understaffed. Unfortunately, I have no other choice sometimes
because the old mom and pop hardware store was put out of business by
them. And to make matters worse, it’s not only China that it
tearing away at the US economy. Try adding India to your
list. They are just as bad.
To give you an example, my employer has about a 50-50 mix of
full-timers to contractors. And you know where these contractors
are from? You guessed it – India. To make matters worse,
that’s just the number of contractors that are here locally in the
office. There are many more back in the homeland that
telecommute. Funny thing happened here at my place of employment
about 4 weeks ago. Everyone got an email notice indicating that
they were required to attend a diversity training seminar. Of
course I did not attend but hearing from the ones who did, you know
what they were taught? They were taught about the Indian
culture. For example – we should not point at these people with
our finger or point our feet at them. Yes, I know, our
feet. It was basically an hour of them telling us what their
culture is like. Now, do you see something wrong with this?
Why the heck should I care what their culture is like? Like I
really care what the red dot on the forehead denotes or that you use
curry in your meals. I could care less. Bottom line is that
I’m here to do a job. Period. And besides, they live in OUR
country. So why don’t we offer them a course on American culture?
So, what I think we need to do is stop pointing the finger and start
taking action.
This country has always been huge on innovation. We need to work
together and to determine how to win this battle. How do we
do this you ask? Well, we have a process in place to handle
concerns such as this. It’s called politics. You probably
laugh at this but it’s true. The politicians are the people WE
pay to LEAD us through thick and thin. Unfortunately, there has
been no leadership lately. Well let me rephrase – we were led to
a nonsense war with a country that never posed a threat to us. Do
you have any idea why the economy is doing as well as it is
presently? Because of the war. Keep in mind that the US
government is the largest consumer in the country. If/when they
stop funding the war, the rivers of cash, which essentially touch every
industry out there, will dry up.
I hope you are prepared for a massive recession because it is on the
horizon. We have paid, and will continue to pay big bucks for
this mistake. It will not go away over night. For the 4 or 5
years that we’ve been fighting this war, could have focus our resources
on things like energy. This is a huge area that’s just dying to
be tapped. And by energy, I don’t mean just oil or gas. I
mean all energy. Think for a second what would happen to the
Saudi economy if we cut our dependence of oil by half and replaced it
with something else. Something that WE developed. Think of
how that would help companies here in the states. It’s a whole
new opportunity. This is just one way to revive this
economy. There are many more ways out there. We just need to get
off our a$$es and challenge people to find them.
Ok, I’m done for now. I wish I could say ‘let’s spool up these
engines and get the hell out of here’ but I can’t. Not rated for
a 777. So I’d have to say lets fire up my 172sp and try to get
off the ground on this hot day.
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