angelfire10

In response to tiger 747's post: (old post but I just read it and had to respond) I received my license in September of 2010, and have applied everywhere I can think of. I have only had 3 interviews out of 150+ applications. It is now been 8 months, and still no job. My license is probationary due to a misdemeanor I had in 2001 regarding battery due to self defense. Supposedly, my probationary status will be lifted upon satisfactory completion of 6 months employment as a nurse. What people fail to understand about battery is that there is a major difference between hurting someone (actual battery) and the law's loose and all-inclusive definition of battery (such as pushing someone or yanking something out of their hand). In my town, even the supposed "victim" now goes to jail on the reasoning that a conflict is-- and I quote--- "mutually combative." The municipality gets double the revenue this way. The second thing people forget about battery is a thing called "emotional investment." Because you slap your child, or slap your boyfriend when you walk in on him sleeping with your sister, in no way can be extrapolated to mean you will strike my elderly father in a LTC facility. Well, I suppose if you fall in love with him and catch him with the 90-year-old down the hall. LOL In other words, there are extenuating circumstances-- namely passion. That is why we say "all is fair in love and war." Not every aspect of our lives needs to be controlled by the law. Leaving the U.S. is the only real answer. My cousins in Germany are highly educated and have to come here on business, but they do not like to. They say we are a "police state." Americans are pretty much thought the world over to be stupid. The BBC hit comedy "Saxondale" (Steve Coogan) was slated to be shown in the U.S., but in the end Coogan and the producers did not think Americans would "get it". LOL Where else in the world would you find a toothless person in a homeless shelter against universal health care? "That's socialism," they say. LOL There isn't 3% of the American population who even know what socialism is. To stay here truly wastes your life. Hugo Chavez says the U.S. Government somehow brainwashed the American public into thinking "the state" is more important than the people, when, in fact, it should be the other way around. You know, in Libya, everyone has free healthcare; no utility bills; everyone gets a check for oil profits; higher education is free; and if you cannot find a job in your field, you still receive the salary for your profession. And they are rebelling! They do not want a dictatorship! LOL What do we have to do to get Gaddaffi over here? LOL Americans are too stupid to revolt. Freedom means being able to pursue happiness unencumbered; you cannot do that in the U.S. if you have a misdemeanor or slow pay on your credit report. I'm telling you, no convenience store in my town, Anderson, IN, will hire you with even a slow pay on your credit report. They won't even hire the Sheriff! You cannot make sense out of the senseless, and anyone staying in the U.S. will have to try the rest of their lives to do just that. If you study the history of the country in real detail, you will find that this country never was worth the paper the Constitution was written on. Britain did not try very hard at all to keep us: they only committed a relatively small number of troops to the American Revolution. They committed MUCH more to fight Napoleon. The War of 1812 was actually nothing more than the Battle of New Orleans, and there Britain only committed 5,000 troops. LOL What I am saying is that America has never even won a war. George Washington, father of our country?? LOL Think again. What he really wanted was a British military commission--- he considered himself British! LOL Seriously. He only led us because the British denied him a military commission. It just goes on and on. I am so ashamed to be an American. I literally walk around red-faced everyday. If Bin Laden had known the plight of everyday Americans, I doubt very much he would have waged his war of terrorism the way he did. ---------- Wow. There is so much anger and hate filled speech in your posts. Accepting responsibility for personal actions and not trying to rationalize and make excuses for our behavior will get us so much farther in life. You said "just because someone slaps their child or boyfriend, it can't be extrapolated that you will strike an elderly person in a LTC facility". I totally disagree; if someone's solution to conflict or personal frustration is to reach out and slap or push someone, I think it CAN be extrapolated that that person would conceivably slap or push someone in any situation in which they're feeling anger, frustration, etc. Your dissatisfaction with living in the U.S. and the accompanying hate speech is another issue. Life is too short to stay somewhere (whether it's a job, marriage, country, etc.) when you obviously despise it! I could go on but I won't; enough negativity for one day.