Jared, I whole heartily agree!!!

-Mike Distefano

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>From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
>[mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of DCT Jared Smith
>Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 9:29 AM
>To: kclug@kclug.org
>Subject: Re: More fuel on overseas jobs fire . .
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>> http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=25210&a=27696,00.asp
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>It's not a popular view, but it's heartfelt, and comes
>by hard experience, so here it is:
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>Exporting my job overseas can either be seen as a threat
>or an opportunity for me to do something else equally
>interesting. I choose the latter not in weakness but out 
>of compassion for the fellers "out there" who need work 
>just as much as I, yet don't live in the bountiful land 
>of America, where all is _still_ possible.
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>We Americans invented the Internet. Now let others play 
>in it! Let's go invent something else, by George.
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>While I love programming, if the job is simply not 
>available, I'm perfectly content working in a gas station 
>at (comparatively) miserable wages. And I've done so, though
>I will say it hurt the first time; now the pride is less
>as I realize I enjoyed that job immensely.
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>My job is not my life.
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>Nor is the present blessing of wealth which this job gives
>me. If it goes away, I will be able to do so many things
>I canNOT do right now, like spending more time in the
>libraries reading books, spending more time with my
>children, and so forth. Life goes on; the urge to keep
>it the way it is, is an urge which will always end in
>failure eventually.
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>Rather, capitalize on the constant of change with an
>attitude of continually seeking upward.
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>Being dependent upon the state of the national economy
>for my emotional and physical welfare is something I
>earnestly avoid.
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>The state of the union does have an effect on me, no doubt 
>about that, but is it the dominant effect? No. After a
>careful and painful restructuring of my priorities away
>from those _common_ in America toward those which are robustly
>framed in the U.S. Constitution (and other noble docs), I
>find I am increasingly able to withstand variations in the
>economy--by no effort less than the grace of our Creator,
>mentioned by name therein. Aye, my truer joys come from reading
>the U.S. Constitution, wherein I find that I, little ol
>me, has the authority and power to restructure things
>if I don't like them. Know it is a private reading, because
>no classroom in America currently teaches the true power
>buried in the nuances of our Constitution.
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>Anyone who complains about the way things are (or are
>about to be), I recommend to study the Constitution.
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>-Jared
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