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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember playing out in my front yard in the 1980s and watching a carpool of four neighborhood dads dropping one off at a time on our street at 4:30 on the dot each afternoon, not much later than I'd gotten home from school. They'd get out of the car in their short sleeve dress shirt and tie. Many government workers didn't value hard work, at least in the 80s, they just valued having a secure job that required light work. The dads in our neighborhood would talk about how they could never be fired from their jobs and bragged about having 6-8 weeks of vacation a year, so much they would take days off to just lounge around the house and do nohting. My dad worked 60-70 hours a week at a private company and then later, as a business owner. I would sometimes ask my dad why those dads could leave work at 3:30 every day and he had to stay at work until much later, and his departure time was never so cut and dry like theirs. And why those dads never had to go into work on a Saturday like mine often did.

That's when he taught me about the difference between going to a job day in and day out that was predictable, unstimulating and comfortable, versus one that was challenging and dynamic. He explained that most jobs of substance and that I should aspire to don't involve punching the timeclock and have a clock tell you when it's time to finish up your work for the day. Those lessons shaped me and who am I am today, the career path I chose, set a standard for the person I would eventually marry, and the values I impress upon my children.

Combined with all the negative comments on this thread about "flyover states," those are the reasons my midwestern mom and dad hated living in DC and felt the way they did. [/quote]

You I can be with.   If more people had your attitude, the country would be better off.  Our country is using Marion Barry's Washington as a role model -- they cannot begin to solve the enormous problems we have, so they incur more debt from willing provider to throw money at problems rather than solve them.  The people who created the space program actually accomplished something.  If there were a space program for poverty, it could not be eliminated but it could be managed in the way it is done in other countries.   Few people want to do more than be mollified by the vapid media content rather than fulfilling their roles as humans who -- like you and your parents -- actually made the world better for their labor.  More's the pity.[/quote]

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