tgrigsby's Journal: "No hero" by poptones, 3/21/2004, a belated reply

Poptones, the weed toking idiot that was "ashamed" of us for being down on offshoring, had this reply to my message:
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No hero (Score:2)
by poptones (653660) on Sunday March 21, @09:08AM (#8626777)
(Last Journal: Thursday July 24, @05:07AM)
I understand your reluctance to be a hero about this... but I'm saddened by your enthusiasm about mnaking yourself a victim.

Why did you switch careers to one that pays so poorly? If you are going to switch careers, one would think the logical movement would either be upward or toward greater personal happiness. Anything else is just a personal downward spiral, and (as much as I would also like to) you can't blame George Bush's economy for that.

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Poptones, you're an idiot. I didn't "make the switch" voluntarily; there were NO PROGRAMMING JOBS. What jobs did come available had nearly every one of the million-plus unemployed programmers in the Silicon Valley vying for it. Your dumbass remarks about "personal happiness" and "downward spiral" belong in a wannabe hippy empowerment hugfest support group ("you ARE a good person!"), whereas my position is more in the "f**k you you lame ass, I'm not a moron, and if you try to hug me again I'm going to drop kick you" group. Don't be an idiot *all* of your life -- assume for a moment that people except lower paying jobs because, unlike you (assuming you use that same "love yourself" attitude and a strong aversion to bathing to chase prospective mates away), we have FAMILIES that expect us to bring home a paycheck instead of sitting on our asses waiting for that big paying job so we can avoid a "downward personal spiral."

And yes, I can absolutely blame George W. Bush for leaving our borders wide open, even in the face of 9/11, and for letting our jobs walk away. His job is, in part, to protect me and mine, and as with all else, he fails miserably.

You ass.

On a side note, I recently found another job, making 3 times what my "interim" job was paying, and making 70% of what I was making before the economy took a dump. I'm at least back to where I was 5 years ago. And George Bush can take NONE of the credit for this. George Bush can kiss my big sweet white butt. On the other hand, to do that, he'd have to get behind me, which would be tricky because if he got within range I'd be kicking the mortal sh*t out of him as much as possible before the Secret Service jumped on me. Gee Dub is a crooked, evil bastard.