I caught a few clips and blurbs here and there. Just too disgusted to watch, really. One thing I did catch that got my attention was one person's heartfelt tale about how his father tended bar for years and years so that his son could "stand behind a podium" instead.
Uhm, yeah. These guys are definitely out of touch.
Extravagant wealth isn't my aim here. It's a nice thought and all, but I don't want it. I want to be able to fly my own damn plane, thank you very much. And do you honestly think you know what I want for my children? I want them to have an education that's unrivaled throughout the world, so that they can do whatever the hell they want with their lives.
You can start by bankrolling NASA again and making the dream come back to life. If that doesn't jump-start our nation's high-tech industry, I don't know what will. Spamming the solar system with probes will employ hundreds of thousands - I know because my dad did QA work on PCB designs for the Juno probe. And once that's under way we can start making plans for bigger and better things, like the manned exploration of just about every corner of our system. (You Republicans want rampant imperialism? What better method than sticking an American flag on every frackin' rock out there?)
Once the American public at-large are shooting for those big jobs from NASA, commercial space agencies, and all their myriad vendor companies, then maybe we can get down to discussing fair deals for would-be immigrants. Sure, go ahead and build the wall as high as you like. Good fences make good neighbors, after all. But just make sure the doors are open for New Americans, so that other 'bartenders' out there can have their kids 'stand behind podiums'.
Uhm, yeah. These guys are definitely out of touch.
Extravagant wealth isn't my aim here. It's a nice thought and all, but I don't want it. I want to be able to fly my own damn plane, thank you very much. And do you honestly think you know what I want for my children? I want them to have an education that's unrivaled throughout the world, so that they can do whatever the hell they want with their lives.
You can start by bankrolling NASA again and making the dream come back to life. If that doesn't jump-start our nation's high-tech industry, I don't know what will. Spamming the solar system with probes will employ hundreds of thousands - I know because my dad did QA work on PCB designs for the Juno probe. And once that's under way we can start making plans for bigger and better things, like the manned exploration of just about every corner of our system. (You Republicans want rampant imperialism? What better method than sticking an American flag on every frackin' rock out there?)
Once the American public at-large are shooting for those big jobs from NASA, commercial space agencies, and all their myriad vendor companies, then maybe we can get down to discussing fair deals for would-be immigrants. Sure, go ahead and build the wall as high as you like. Good fences make good neighbors, after all. But just make sure the doors are open for New Americans, so that other 'bartenders' out there can have their kids 'stand behind podiums'.