Just Do It
      by Paul


  Thursday, October 9, 2003 - 12:46 AM

 
            Friends, I am about to go off.  If you are looking for something funny to read, I cannot at this time guarantee this will be amusing.  This may piss you off, and this may even make you stop looking at this site.  If that happens, I apologize because you’re missing out on some really great folks writing some pretty funny stuff.  However, for what I am about to write I refuse to apologize. 

            I am a capitalist.  I am aggressive.  I am a Political Science major at HSU who hopes to one day become President, and possibly the first person to enter all 3 branches of Federal Government.  I refuse to agree that there is a better place on this planet to live besides America, and I love this country dearly.  I love the men and women who go forth despite whether they agree or not and fight the wars that this country involves herself in.  I love the men and women who serve in office and take on the responsibility of governing our nation effectively, conservatively, and ultimately, in the right direction.  I will not listen to people who are simply content to slander our nation, some of her great contributors, and the people who make certain that she runs effectively.  I do not say that disagreeing is wrong, but I do say that to slander her is hypocritical. 

            The last time I checked, we all like living here.  For those who don’t, try moving to the “oh so great and wonderful” European Union.  Try leaving this country and living elsewhere for the rest of your life.  In fact, if I had the option I’d write and sign the exile notice for you to go.  But here’s the facts folks: PEOPLE LIKE LIVING HERE!

            Is it better anywhere else?  Perhaps in Germany where 54% of your money is taken from your check every week to support someone who may not even want to work!  Maybe in Iraq where the only woman on the council is assassinated just scant weeks into it’s existence.  Maybe you can find equality there, eh?  Or perhaps in Somalia.  A place where there is no government (stable or unstable) only warlords and famine.  Have fun.  I’ll buy you a one way plane ticket. 

            Because now we’re getting down to why I am angry.  I went to high school just like everyone else in this country.  We are required to go until we’re 16.  At the age of 16, most people believe they are responsible enough to decide whether they have had enough of education or not.  Some may return later, and some choose to continue on.  Here’s the point: WE HAD A CHOICE!  Those of us who have chosen to continue on to education have made a quite momentous choice in our lives.  In fact, we’ve made a conscious decision to not be people who go through lives wishing they had more.  In fact, we’ve chosen to be “intellectuals” and eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil capitalists because we believe that we can work and do more than some say we can.  WE the people made that decision, consciously, and correctly.  People who don’t make that decision not only choose mediocrity, they also reject excellence. 

            So now we go to the fact that we must “educate” and help all these “helpless” dolts who chose out of their own tiny, insignificant minds (which coincidently were roughly the same size as ours) to reject education and head straight to the work world.  I do not dispute their choice, in fact I respect it and applaud their decision to take a path in life that offers fewer opportunities, lower benefits, and generally a lower quality in life!  However, I do not support the concept held among some that we should take it as a responsibility to help those who will not help themselves.  They made the choice just as we did for education or without it. 

            So, let’s continue with the fact that they live in this country where it is the option.  Let’s move them to Europe where they don’t have the option!  You don’t have a choice to higher education in Europe.  In most countries if you don’t score high enough on certain tests, you only have shots at apprenticeships.  Here in America you have the opportunity to do whatever you want!  Anything!  And for those that take advantage of it, there is a sect in society who says that they should be punished.  Our country friends, was founded on excellence.  On the idea that we have the choice to be mediocre or to be excellent in life and no one can take that away from us.  But some people don’t want us to have that choice.  They want to punish those who achieve by attaching a drag weight to us:  Namely, those who don’t want to be excellent.  They deserve everything we get because we work for it, and they don’t.  Does the logical irony escape anyone else?  Good.

            Don’t let mediocrity drag you down.  Don’t let it hit you and knock you over and lose your resolve.  Don’t let naysayers suggest that because you want to achieve and do something with your life you must throw it all to everyone else.  Why?  Because that must be our choice.  I am a philanthropist in addition to capitalist.  But the person with whom I spoke only demands that I make everyone else’s life better.  He did not ask whether or not I do.  So when the question arose, what was the answer?  I work for Honors Council, Rotaract, the College Republicans, and as a evangelist around the state FOR FREE because I choose to.  And because I do not ask other’s opinions, support, or make an attempt to help every person who maybe just maybe does not want HELP then I am evil.  The person debating me just happened to not do philanthropic work.  Instead, said person is content to go to a philosophy group that sits and discusses how bad our country and lives are.  They’re wrong because they do no acts.

            I’m not evil.  I’m a capitalist and I love our country more than life itself. 

   Paul - Evil beyond compare…. Or not.

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