THE ENTERPRISE--THE UNTHINKABLE?
IMMIGRATION THOUGHTS--RECEIVED FROM A FRIEND
---During the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the deportation of all illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American citizens that desperately needed work. Again in 1954, President Eisenhower deported more than a million Mexican nationals (still more fled the country to avoid being rounded up) so that American WWII and Korean veterans had a better chance at jobs. The program was called "Operation Wetback" It took 2 years, but they deported them! Now, if they could deport the illegals back then, they can sure deport a bunch of them today!! Meanwhile, a reminder. Don't forget to pay your taxes. 12 million illegal aliens are depending on you!
THIS HAPPENS A LOT IN BUSINESS
Things are not going so well. The CEO job that you always wanted has turned out to be hell on earth. Nothing you are doing seems to work right, and even when it does, it goes unappreciated. You begin to believe in the motto "no good deed goes unpunished." Then, all your supporters are getting thrown out by the lead investors. Are you next? Sure, you probably are. So what? You simply arrange an amicable separation agreement (so you get some of those golden handcuffs, even if you leave) and you resign. Good riddance to that company and job. What is the most notable CEO in the U. S. decided to do that?
Note: I did not originate this. It came via email from a friend, and the original source is unknown. I simple cleaned it up a little bit. Who knows, maybe Karl Rove wrote it?
WHAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH RESIGNED?
You know that Karl Rove and Tony Snow resigned recently. The President's approval ratings are very low (but not as low as Congress's), with little sign of improving. Just imagine that all of the Americans who dislike, hate or simply disapprove of President Bush got their wish and he just said "the hell with it," and resigned--and all of his staff resigned with him.
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IMAGINE HOW PRESIDENT BUSH'S RESIGNATION SPEECH MIGHT GO:
Normally, I start these things out by saying "My Fellow Americans." I'm not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don't know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you're really not "fellow Americans" any longer. That's why I'm making this announcement today. I'll cut right to the chase: I quit!!
Now before anyone gets all in a lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there's been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office. The reason I'm quitting is simple. I'm fed up with you people. I'm fed up because you have no understanding of what's really going on in the world. Or of what's going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.
Let's start local. You've been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that's despite record low employment--as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. We've had year after year of strong economic growth, while we cleaned up financial scandals (and paid the price in restated earnings) that inflated the apparent growth during Clinton's 2 terms. I cut taxes and in spite of all the critics saying we'd blow the deficit out of sight, it's gone down--in fact, way down as a percent of GDP. I've mentioned all those things before, but it doesn't seem to have sunk in.
Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there's increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beach front property than your economic security. Also, you don't have to drive 2 ton, 8 passenger SUVs to the store and soccer game. You have a choice--think for a minute.
We face real threats in the world. Don't give me this "blood for oil" thing. If I was trading blood for oil I would've already seized Iraq 's oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don't give me this 'Bush Lied People Died' crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I could've easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be 'discovered.' Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty.
Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named 'Clinton' established that policy (his wife, the Senator even supported everything we did until it became unpopular to have done so) . Bet you didn't know that, did you? Plus, it's no wonder France, Russia and other so-called "allies" wouldn't join us to clean up Iraq. They were taking down billions from Saddam and the UN's corrupt "oil for food" program, and many European countries are terrified of upsetting their large and growing Muslim immigrant communities. If there were riots about a few cartoons, think what might have happened if France and a few others joined us in cleaning up Iraq faster.
Yes, I know I didn't have the right leadership in Iraq before, but now that we do, it seems way too many Congressional leaders want to declare a loss, take our weapons and just go home. Why? Because it will be embarrassing for them to admit they were wrong--ever.
You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them. That's not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don't care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That'd be fine, as long as they weren't also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you. And they are all over the globe, and reproducing much faster than we are..
You should be grateful that they haven't gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you're not That's because you've got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. You'd rather join the ACLU in whining about your "rights" when we try to use surveillance and investigative methods that will find them. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I'm sad how many of you people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of 'Survivor'. How about your rights to stay alive and free? Will the ACLU protect you from Islamic terrorists?
Instead, you've grown impatient. You've lost the will for right to prevail. You're incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops. After all, TV wars get over quickly. Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a pacifist, cut-and-run Democrat's political campaign, well, damn it, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.
In this day and age, it's easy enough to find the truth--but not from the mainstream media. It's all over the Internet. It just isn't on the pages of the New York Times or CNN or on The Evening News. But even if it were, I doubt you'd be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.
What about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even when you're too stupid to leave a city that's below sea level and a huge hurricane is approaching? I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I've come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.
So I quit. I'm going back to Crawford. I've got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully self-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I'm done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.
Oh, and by the way, Dick Cheney's quitting too. That means Nancy Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it--you got it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there's just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008 and vote in a new President that you will support. So that's it. God bless what's left of America. Some of you know what I mean.
(signed) George W. Bush
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In the business world, we used to have a saying, "Be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it." Do you think this would be a better country if this resignation letter were real? What would our enemies think? What would they do? What would the economy and the stock markets do?
If you think the situation in Iraq is a problem due to lack of leadership, and an unwillingness of the Shites, Sunnis and Kurds to work together to find compromises and resolve their differences constructively, think about your own country. Consider the paralyzing partisan political B. S. going on in Washington, and ponder our own problems for a few minutes. Can't get Congress to agree on much; can't get Congress and the White House to agree on much either. Something bad is wrong.
Then imagine the President and Vice President just quit. Now think about what happens next. Nervous? You should be. I would be. We get a do over in about 14 months, but the race will get narrowed down to 2 or 3 people by next spring. We'd better think long and hard about who we choose--and why.
Best, John
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