Quite frequently seemingly innocuous posts are diverted into discussions of the economy and in particularly how it sucks. And of course the next step is condemnation of a given administration or political party. All of the usual suspect check in with their usual slant on things and in the end the original subject of the post is long forgotten. Well, that’s cool and I have no problem with casual conversations taking whatever course they may.
Some of these discussions really do get on my goat and I just want to throw my two cents into the pot. I am now retired having spent some forty years in various segments of the eyecare field. I started out real poor and today enjoy a very comfortable life style so to paraphrase some major league ballplayer a few years back: “eyecare has been very very good to me.”
I live in a country where the educational opportunities allow me to achieve at a level equal to my intelligence and desire. I will be the first to admit that it aint always easy; I did my first undergraduate degree working 48 hours a week with a wife and baby to support. But, I have been able to upgrade my skill set and reengineer my vocation with two additional undergraduate degrees and a graduate degree.
I have been blessed to live in a country which, as much as may be criticized, allows a person with a product, service or talent to become an entrepreneur and start his own business. Perhaps of even greater importance is the fact that I, as an individual, can participate in the ownership of nearly all of the corporations doing business in the world.
I live under a system of government that despite what I consider egregious taxation and spending in its futile attempt to redistribute wealth and engineer the human condition does so with minimal direct interference in my business and personal life. I have been rich and I have been poor and have lived through good times and bad times.
Somehow, the American people manage to get through all of these ups and downs. I just want to go on the record as being damned grateful to be here. How about you?
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