Sunday November 19, 2006

I was watching MSNBC before and the show was about wounded soldiers who fought in Iraq and how shitty it is for them when they come home wounded. They lose jobs, their houses, are in debt and their families are torn apart. They don't tell you that when they run the commercials on TV for military enlistment. "Be all that you can be" Yeah.......just don't get wounded or need health care when you get home. There was one man who lost both legs and he was struggling to try to walk again. His wife left her home and job to be with him in the hospital. Once you leave the hospital they don't want to know you. We're practically GIVING money away (billions and billions of dollars) to the contracters and the shysters who got rich off the war yet we can't take care of our own wounded soldiers. There are different groups now that are making some progress in changing the situation eventually.

To change subjects now:
My father is a military veteran who served in Korea during the Korean War. He worked all his life, paid his taxes, never got a ticket, followed the rules his whole life. So he goes to renew his license in the DMV in Wallington, NJ last week. Some a-hole who didn't even speak English gave him a hard time, questioning if he was the person the birth certificate he bought with him belonged to. Now this birth certificate is from 1932..........the original. This idiot told him the birth certificate looked TOO OLD!!!! WELL IT IS OLD YOU FREAKIN' JERK! So then she showed it to another person (who spoke worse "english" than the first) and finally it got to a supervisor who okayed it, while my dad was humiliated and embarrassed. The thing that got him was these people who can't even put a sentence together coherently are making him go from person to person to be judged like he was trying to pull something over on the DMV. When he came home I could tell it upset him. How do these people get these jobs? I've been at the DMV before and the majority of them sit on their ass while we're waiting in line like you're all cattle being led to the feeding troughs. How can you get a job like that if you cannot speak proper English? And they look at YOU like you have three heads when you say "excuse me, can you repeat that"? when you can't understand the senseless babble that they say? Work on the accent, bubba and maybe people will understand you.