What If?

[Grumpy]

Back during the Great Depression an unemployed man walked all around town looking for work but was turned down everywhere. In the late afternoon, without realzing it, he ended up in the Red Light District of town. Being desperate he knocked on the door a a brothel. When the Madam answered, he told her he was looking for work and would do anything to earn some money.

The Madam said she didn't have any need for workers. She said that in spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, her business was thriving and she had all the maids, gardners, cooks, etc that she needed. But then she tought about it and said that since business was going so well, she probably could use a Bookkeeper and asked if he had any experience.
He said NO that he was just a worker and for that matter he didn't have any education and couldn't read or write and didn't know his numbers.

Being dejected and rejected, he sat on the front steps and took off his hat to rest a little before continuing on. As he sat there, one of the patrons came out and thought he was begging so he put a dime in the hat. The man so happy to get the dime and went to a fruit stand near his home and bought two apples at a nichel a piece.

Then as he was taking them home someone stopped him and offered him twenty cents for the apples. He sold them and went back to the Fruit Stand and bought four more apples at a nichle apiece, then found other people to buy them at a dime apiece.

To make an already long story short, he parlayed that initial dime into a multi-million dollar fruit selling empire. By the end of the Depression he was well known and was talked into running to be Mayor of the city. He ran and surprisingly HE WON!.

After the inaugration, the local newspaper reporter was interviewing the new Mayor and asked about his college education. The man, sheepishly, said that he had never been to college. The reporter than asked, well what High School did you go to? The man then admitted that he didn't have any education and couldn't read, write, or do his numbers.

The report was amazed and said: My God, you don't have any education and look at all you have accomplished. WHAT IF you had had an education?"

The man thoght for a miniute and said: "Well, IF I had had an education, I would have been a Bookkeeper in a ***** House!!"

The TV commentators, newpaper and magizine pundits and all of us can talk all we want to about WHAT IF McCain, Palin, The Republicans and who or whatever had been done differently and it doesn't matter. What we Americans need to do now is work together to make sure America doens't go down the toilet.

I constantly get emails about all of the things that are wrong in America, but all they ever do is say: IF YOU AGREE PASS IT ON OR DELETE!!" I have never once gotten any that tell me or you what we can do to correct a problem. Passing it on or deleting doesn't solve any problem.

What all need to do is write letters to the New President, to our Senators and our Congressman/woman. People say that writting doesn't do any good but I firmly believe that that is the only thing, besides voting, that does do any good.

And, it is even easier today because you can email all of them instead of writing an actual letter.

For the White House:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

For Senators:

http://www.senate.gov/

For Congress:

http://www.house.gov/

Click on those links and follow the directions for sending an email. If you want to write an actual letter you can get the address from those sites.

If you don't want to write to your representavites then you will get stuck with whatever the other peole want.

Thats my opinion,

Grumpy

[Tim_T]

Great post Grumpy. Many people think that all they have to do is vote and then let the chips fall where the may. Wish I was a bookeeper, I would take that job! lol

[stratosjoe]

Grumpy, hands down that is THE best post I have ever read on this site. I will cut and paste all that on a save area I use Thanks Joe g

[Tyme2fish]

I just saved each link as a favorite. My representatives in Washinbgton D.C. will be hearing from me.

Thanks for the links.

[DJD]

Saved the links and will be sending an email or two. Thanks Grumpy

[Grumpy]

Thanks for the kind words guys, I appreciate it. I hope many poeple copied this into an email and passed it on (smile).

Grumpy