House Hunting In Paris
A coworker of mine has something he’d like to say. Those with delicate sensibilities or liberal leanings are duly warned. This guy is a Sergeant First Class in the Army. He is a naturalized American, originally hailing from the Philippines.
It’s all really very simple...if you don't like the way we live in this country, get out. We who love living here should make an example of Barbara Streisand and Alec Baldwin. Before the last presidential election, they threatened to leave the country if Bush won. I'm still waiting. I'd be glad to front the money for their one-way ticket to any country they choose, providing they hand over their US passports and do not come back.
Foreigners who become naturalized, like me, especially those who came from a third world country (Somalia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, certain parts of the Philippines and other places that makes our slums and ghettos here in the US look like paradise) have no business complaining how tough they have it here. They are free to go back to where they came from. I've served in the military for 17 years to protect and to pay back the country that greatly improved my standard of living. I came from a country where the poor are really poor. At least here if you're poor you can get government assistance (foodshelters and other perks exist here that you cannot find anywhere else in the world) and sometimes a small TV to watch, appliances to cook food, and a place to lay your head every night.
I hear people who came from somewhere else in the world talk trash about the US government. I say LEAVE ALREADY!!! Instead of complaining, how about a “thank you” for being allowed to stay here, a “thank you” for being allowed to have a car and a place to live. “Thank you” for the cold and hot water and the other perks to numerous to mention simply for living in the USA. Lastly, a “thank you” for the opportunity to be as successful as I want to be, because I am allowed to live here.
Again, if you don't like it here, don't just leave...GET THE HELL OUT!!!
It’s all really very simple...if you don't like the way we live in this country, get out. We who love living here should make an example of Barbara Streisand and Alec Baldwin. Before the last presidential election, they threatened to leave the country if Bush won. I'm still waiting. I'd be glad to front the money for their one-way ticket to any country they choose, providing they hand over their US passports and do not come back.
Foreigners who become naturalized, like me, especially those who came from a third world country (Somalia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Cuba, certain parts of the Philippines and other places that makes our slums and ghettos here in the US look like paradise) have no business complaining how tough they have it here. They are free to go back to where they came from. I've served in the military for 17 years to protect and to pay back the country that greatly improved my standard of living. I came from a country where the poor are really poor. At least here if you're poor you can get government assistance (foodshelters and other perks exist here that you cannot find anywhere else in the world) and sometimes a small TV to watch, appliances to cook food, and a place to lay your head every night.
I hear people who came from somewhere else in the world talk trash about the US government. I say LEAVE ALREADY!!! Instead of complaining, how about a “thank you” for being allowed to stay here, a “thank you” for being allowed to have a car and a place to live. “Thank you” for the cold and hot water and the other perks to numerous to mention simply for living in the USA. Lastly, a “thank you” for the opportunity to be as successful as I want to be, because I am allowed to live here.
Again, if you don't like it here, don't just leave...GET THE HELL OUT!!!
posted by Don Diego de la Vega @ 1:16 PM
1 Comments:
At September 16, 2004 at 8:23 PM,
Anonymous said…
How true! it's like I always say, support our troops and our president, or move to Iraq. Then they'd realize the freedom they had here. I don't think they realize that if they spoke out that way in Iraq they'd be killed or imprisoned. Great story!
Pamela
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