Another from Gary Graham…
Sumbitch! Remember that Hollywood conservative I wrote about a few days back? Here he is on the stimulus package!
DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome read, and here’s a taste:
He moved to Orange County, California with his new wife and found a group of doctors to start private practice. He saw up to 100 patients a day, often putting in 20-hour days. He kept studying and gained a specialty degree in Abdominal Surgery. He sat on the California Board of Medical Examiners, and with the expertise he accrued, built three hospitals, and managed nine more. Never one to sit still, he developed and owned 11 different companies in the early ‘70’s. Unfortunately, as a businessman, he turned out to be a terrific doctor. (As he told me, “Gary, it’s weird. Doctors are used to being told the truth. Patients come in, they tell you what’s bothering them. To lie to your doctor could mean mis-diagnosis which would be disastrous – so… people tell the truth. Then you go into business…and everybody lies!”) Of the eleven, only three of these companies ever made money. And of course, the three money-makers were medical companies. He made money doing the things he knew.
My father held to an apparently outdated value system. He looked to himself for answers. When he wanted to become a doctor, but had no money…when he wanted to go to school, but couldn’t afford shoes… did he make it anyone else’s problem? Did he get angry with the government? Demand a stimulus package? Ask for a tax break? Beg for a bail-out?
No. He manned up and took care of business. Which is what I would suggest out country would do: Man up! Quit crying, quite begging, quit quitting on yourself! Grow a pair! Or so help me, I’m gonna channel John Wayne and the two of us will come over there and kick your butt.
And there’s MORE! Shows how America could return to being, if we’d just get off the government tit and be as America was intended by the people that founded it.
Hell, I remember as a married SSgt in 1980, BASE housing, and I qualified for food stamps in NC. Fuck that. Re-organize economically, figure out how to make ends meet. I was NOT going to be a slave to the government any more than I was already a military troop. Mind you, when we were stationed in England, and the surplus meat packages came to the commissary, I didn’t turn them down. Those, however, were sent as support to troops overseas. I worked for that shit. Economics, and what’s owed.
Sleep well America, for rough men stand ready to do violence on your behalf.
