"Who decided on your way of earning a living?
Who insisted that you take, and keep your current job?
Who forbid you from leaving your job and location to seek other, better employment?
How did you decide that you were worth more than you currently get?
Who is preventing you from opening your own business?
Why are you unable to understand this: 'It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'
These are rhetorical...you need not answer."
There is a difference between existential truth and the human condition many have to live with, as you well know.
Is it cruelty or provocation that makes you as these questions?
Of course it is always understood that no one need answer.
"...many have to live with,..."
Some are stronger than other.
Straight out of Ayn Rand. Good girl, now go back to high school cheer leading and pseudo intellectualism.
Or, go work unloading bananas in the summer heat on the docks with big, strong, sweating workers so you can earn enough for tuition and food.
Open your own business and sweat out the days when no one comes into your shop and the bills pile up.
Or move to another country, another culture and another language and try to save a relationship while working your butt off, only to have the business destroyed by two towers tumbling half way round the world.
When ideals and credos, doctrines and ideologies run into human reality, the only reality there is, humanity trumps in any real human.
Well....wouldya look at that!
1. Exactly the same tone and level post produced every time a male is put in his place and his widdle ego is bruised.....
Smarting a bit?
Good.
Big mistake to believe you can tell me what to do.
2. Quit your whining and hand-wringing about how terrible life is.
This is America. The greatest nation on earth.
Man up.
3. "38% of taxi and limo drivers were immigrants in 2000. This is one of the highest
proportions of immigrant workers of any occupation in the U.S. Only tailors and
farm laborers had a higher percentage of immigrants among occupations with at
least 50,000 workers in the 2000 Census"
http://www.schallerconsult.com/taxi/taxidriver.pdf
4. Unlike their counterparts in the 1960s and 70s whose aspirations was to return to their respective countries with an American education and the skills necessary for the task of nation-building, many of the immigrants in the last two decades are more interested in settling in United States and building a comfortable life for themselves and their families. This essay examines why an increasing number of African immigrants decide to become permanent residents or citizens of the United States instead of returning to their home countries. It also considers the various measures that these immigrants have taken to become integrated into their new environment.
Contemporary African Immigrants to The United States
Poor, poor, Eye-baby.....
5. "I lived for about a decade, on and off, in France and later moved to the United States. Nobody in their right mind would give up the manifold sensual, aesthetic and gastronomic pleasures offered by French savoir-vivre for the unrelenting battlefield of American ambition were it not for one thing: possibility.
You know possibility when you breathe it. For an immigrant, it lies in the ease of American identity and the boundlessness of American horizons after the narrower confines of European nationhood and the stifling attentions of the European nanny state, which has often made it more attractive not to work than to work. High French unemployment was never much of a mystery."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/opinion/04iht-edcohen.2.20587034.html
6. The reality is to use the "gates" test....
...judge any nation this way:
When the gates are lifted, do folks rush in, or rush out.
Need a shoulder to cry on? Pull over to the side of the road.
OK...now you can put you tu-tu back on and do YOUR cheer-leading.
