Two items caught my eye yesterday because I think their extremes reflect the core reasons for the country's current condition, although the underlying ideology goes back more than a hundred years.
700 people were arrested on NYC's Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend. They were part of a group of anti-Wall Street protesters that camped in a Manhattan park and sparked support elsewhere in the country. This marks the third week of their campaign.
The reason for the protest can be summed up by school teacher, Denise Martinez, who said most of the children she teaches in Brooklyn live at or below the poverty level, and her classes are jammed with up to about 50 students. According to her, "These are America's future workers, and what's trickling down to them are the problems -- the unemployment, the crime." She blamed Wall Street for causing the country's financial problems and said it needed to do more to solve them.
Then on Fox News, Robert Johnson, a Democrat who founded BET Network, said the inability of the nation to move forward is a byproduct of the president's approach. "There are no profiles in courage on either part. I didn't go in to business to create a public policy success for either party, Republican or Democrat. I went in business to create jobs and opportunity, create opportunity, create value for myself and my investors. And that's what the president should be praising, not demagoguing."
Johnson said he was raised in a family of ten kids, was the first to go to college, and was determined to make a success of himself.
So, there you have it. On one hand, those like Johnson who will do whatever it takes to succeed and do their damnedest in trying, and on the other those who bitch, moan and cry while taking no blame because their failures are everybody else's fault.
And, in conclusion, all I'm sorry about it is that I'm no longer active in business because it's apparent the mass of losers, whiners, and quitters keeps growing in droves. And if they're all out there walking on bridges, I'll have no problems closing deals...because no competition will ever show up.
That's it for today folks.
Adios
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