“TAKING THE EASY WAY OUT”
by OPOVV, ©2015
(Apr. 1, 2015) — Starting from square one, a group of people got together and decided on certain points that will ensure the safety and longevity of their toils. The paramount issue at stake was the chance of raising the children in a safe and stable environment. The well-being of everyone’s offspring takes front, row and center importance, and everything other than addressing the children is secondary in the whole scheme for cooperation in the first place.
An agreement on money, trade, ownership of the land and the means of protecting the communal investment is the reason why we have a military, just as other countries do. Our country is unique in that we have the Constitution, but it is also unique that, for the past six years, we’ve turned our backs on the very document that made us who we are in the first place.
People who share basic beliefs of good and bad, right and wrong, and a history have a connection that other people in the world don’t share with us. Our most patriotic day isn’t the 4th of July; it’s Thanksgiving. If I were to have only one day in which to present Old Glory, I would have to bypass the 4th and fly it with friends and family and the rest of my community on Thanksgiving day.
We’ve seen our country travel the road to Third World status since Obama and his gang of thieves invaded the administration and all the other government agencies that have a direct bearing on how we live our lives. Government employees are vastly overpaid because politicians are buying their votes. Our tax dollars have been wasted by paying government employees who are not qualified to do the work for which they were hired. The incompetent end up hiring even more incompetent employees.
I once had a construction project with a VA hospital, and the VA liaison with whom I was to coordinate the work had no construction experience whatsoever. Absolutely none, yet he was making twice my salary and didn’t have a college degree in anything. To top it off, his boss was a lady who told me that she “didn’t want to be bothered.” So much for a blueprint that had numerous errors and building code violations. Nobody gave a hoot; nobody cared; and nobody wanted to be bothered about anything with the project except me. I was fired from that job for doing my job. Once I was fired from another job for going to the VA hospital for a second opinion about my smashed knees after I fell into a sinkhole. No kidding.
We’ve learned that it’s better to bring people up to existing standards rather than lower the standards to satisfy an academia exercise. We, as a people, as a country, are better off with better people. Johnny can’t read the instructions? Well, how about teaching Johnny a little bit more so he can read the instructions.
The great equalizer is when you own a company and require employees to make you money. Believe me, you don’t care what age, color or sex they are as long as they can do what they were hired to do. End of story. No discussion required. I needed a typist so I hired one. The job lasted six months, so I wasn’t concerned about the age, sex, or color of the applicant. The only thing I was concerned about was that they were here in our country legally, just as I am, and qualified to do the work.
When I ran for president in 2012, bringing back the Draft was part of my platform. It is immensely important to our country that we have a military which answers to the citizens and the Constitution rather than whoever is the (nowadays de facto) Commander-in-Chief.
Do we upgrade our public school requirements or do we regress and accept Affirmative Action? Do we teach or do we pay off? Do we follow our laws or do we steal? Do we require people who represent us in Washington to be honest or do we settle for liars such as Harry Reid? And do we want our military to be the best, or do we want marginal soldiers who wouldn’t know an illegal order if it bit them?
Just as Newton’s Third Law of Motion states that “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” so whenever we pass a law there are repercussions. There are also payoffs, some beneficial, others not, in inaction, as in refusing to abolish the “death tax.”
The suggestion of lowering standards for our military is a symptom of the malaise that is affecting every aspect of our Republic: taking the easy way out as a viable alternative in achieving worthwhile goals.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but to achieve worthwhile goals, sacrifices must be made. If anything, the standards should be constantly raised rather than the opposite.