Reply #50: I am against outsourcing--to me it is the ultimate "fuck you" of corporations [View All]

[TwilightGardener]

to hard-working Americans. I mentioned that I hated it in my post. I wasn't "lucky" to get into nursing--I backed into it (with massive student loans, patched-together day-care, mac-n-cheese dinners and an old Chevy Cavalier that died a new death on a daily basis) because we're a military family and it was very difficult to start all over again trying to find a decent-paying job wherever we moved--and we moved a LOT. I also went into nursing, among other reasons, for the pay, the flexibility of scheduling (I'm a mom), and the opportunities--NOT because I really loved it. It was a fully calculated move--it helped protect my family against the economic hardships of starting over every two years. I don't work as an RN right now, but I keep my license as an insurance policy, or until a good opportunity presents itself. That's my attitude, more or less--do what you can to protect yourself from a bad economic fate.

I searched the post you are replying to and I don't think I have an "I got mine" attitude--I just don't go along with the OP saying that the Democratic party is necessarily to blame (or will be to blame) for privatization leading to things like "mindless consumerism", shitty jobs, outsourcing, high cost of tuition, etc. We live in a capitalist, free-market country, and Dems, WHEN they win the WH, will have an opportunity to hopefully take on and fix the downsides of that reality, but I don't share the pessimism, or the "woe is us, all our candidates are corporate sell-outs, we're doomed", because my own life experience does not lead me to that conclusion. I also don't think our lives are harder than for past generations, who had things like infectious disease, racism, female oppression, limited educational opportunites, etc. as part of daily life. I feel lucky to live in this country, in this time, imperfect as it is--and I don't mind saying so.