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And we have the current President to thank for all of this how?
Comment: Why are the spoiled brats so unhappy?
Web Posted: 02/10/2007 12:00 PM CST
Charles Slaughter
Special to the Express-News
A recent Newsweek poll alleges 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the president. In essence, two-thirds of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change.
What are we so unhappy about?
Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, seven days a week? Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job? Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the past year?
Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state.
Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all involved? Whether you are rich or poor, they treat your wounds and, if necessary, send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.
Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. This should make you very unhappy ... only 70 percent? Horrible.
Or while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents, your child is one of 90 percent of teenagers who own cell phones or a computer. Pathetic!
How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S. yet has a great disdain for its citizens. Here we are, the most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have and what we hate about the country instead of what we do have.
What about our lousy president with his 31 percent approval rating who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9-11? The president who cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession?
Could this be the same guy who has succeeded in keeping all the spoiled brats safe from terrorist attacks? The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me?
Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve and, in many cases, have died for your freedom. There is no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are there in harm's way and need support, not criticism.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans? Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads, and they specialize in bad news. The media strongly dislike our president and, unfortunately, make no bones about it.
Stop buying the negative venom you are fed every day by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad.
I suggest we sit back and count our blessings. If we don't, what we have will be taken away. Then we will have to explain to future generations why we squandered such blessings and abundance. If we are not careful, this generation will be known as the "greediest and most ungrateful generation."
A far cry from the proud Americans of the greatest generation, who left us an untarnished legacy.
And we have the current President to thank for all of this how?
I wonder what the parents of the soldiers who died in Iraq would say to the author of this piece.
What a ing whiner.
Charles Slaughter is right. Without the leadership of George W. Bush, we would have no electricity, no water, no jobs, we would be hungry all the time, would have to show papers to drive on the Interstate highways George W. Bush built, we would have no emergency services, nobody would own homes, there would be no TV's because Bush invented them, civil strife would be rampant, and the churches would close. George W. Bush is personally responsible for all of that. Oh, and Al Gore was wrong about inventing the Internet. Bush did. Bush also brought us cell phones and computers.
In the year 2000, we were living in huts and caves under authoritarian tyranny. Americans were starving, wanderng the barren landscape without hope. In six short years, George W. Bush has transformed America from a third-world backwater into the world's greatest military and economic power. And this is how we repay him?
Didn't see this at the bottom...
Charles Slaughter of San Antonio has an inmate phone provider business and several retail cell phone stores.
Fixed it.
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What the is an inmate phone provider service??
I guess he provides phone service to inmates.
Remember the dark day's when inmates had no phone service?
I hear he charges five cigarettes per minute.
<off topic: God the Spurs are pissing me off!! Thanks. I feel better now!>
Thank God for George W. Bush.
There is a point in his article. Why do Americans whine about the economy so much?
2% of the population enjoying 25% of the World's GDP.
Yep, lots to cry about.
These "direction" polls are so stupidly vague I have to wonder why anybody bothers making them.
A perfect example of how out-of-touch some Republicans are to reality, but things are cheery for Charles Slaughter, so worry not about the war in Iraq and possibly Iran, fret not over the negative annual savings rate, at a time when we should be saving like crazy, and for gosh sake, thank God that your an American and not an Iraqi right now.
That piece was hilarious.
Hail Bush!
Booo, dissent!
Thank you, Mr. President, for allowing us to keep electricity and running water. We know you could, in your power and glory, strip us of these privileges if you so chose; but in your benevolence you allow us to keep these things, and for this we are forever grateful.
Four more years!
traitor!
Ok, outside of your colbert stint. You do realize that everytime you talk politics there is a lot of doom and gloom tone in everyones inflections and words. We do have it good, he's right.
But we always hear negativity in the news cycle and some, like for instance; the exaggerated claims of global warming effects, tidal waves, hurricanes, loss of animal life, Impending rumors of war with Iran, nuclear holocaust, guantanamo, gap between rich and poor widening, fall of the housing boom leading to the comming Great deppression.
Those topics which always popup seem to dominate conversation in america, where we are living in the most storied and glorius economic and prosperous times of our lives.
We are seeing new markets open up around the world for the betterment of america.
Literacy is improving among minority groups, we are purchasing luxury items left and right.
2000 years into the future archeologist are going to find the remains of an Ipod, notebook, and camera-phone, and they are going to associate these devices with our time.
If one were to speak with people like you or any other pessimist, we'd come to the conclusion that centuries down the line the 21st century in America will be regarded as a hunter gather civilization, nomadic in nature fleeing mastodons and sabertooths.
I can't argue with much of what you wrote, though I think the latter part of the 21st century is going to see a pullback from these most prosperous times.
There are always problems, though, and anybody who pays attention to public policy matters is going to see them and worry about them. Off-topic a bit, Toyota has developed a corporate culture that obsesses about finding problems and worrying about them. They sound like they are about to go bankrupt. However, their results beg to differ, because once the y identify problems, they can develop solutions.
But aside from all that, Slaughter's diatribe was just silly. Just because the nation is affluent does not mean people will always be satisfied with their government. Our form of government is integral to our freedom and prosperity, but an individual Administration of government can be satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
What Slaughter wrote is the right-wing equivalent of some moonbat venting about the "wife-beating fundie sheeple keep voting Repug."
Fixed again.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/...rs.b81a34.html
Editor's note
Several readers alerted editors to the fact that a commentary published in the Views section on Sunday under the headline "Why are the spoiled brats so unhappy?" is notably similar to an online column written by Craig R. Smith of World Net Daily.
Smith's column was posted Nov. 20. The commentary was submitted Jan. 22 under the name Charles Slaughter.
One paragraph in Smith's column about spoiled Americans stated, "Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?"
The commentary stated, "Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?"
Other language is equally similar.
The commentary published Sunday does not meet the Express-News standards for attribution. We regret the incident.
It wasn't me.
Sure Charles, I believe you. I never suspected it was you until you come out with a clearly unprovoked denial?
WTF?
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