I never worked in a factory, my father who was Doctor trained me with his last pennies of savings and by selling his entire fortune to make us educated. We came to US with nothing but education and 'visit visas in 1980-81', my two sisters, my brothers and myself. All of them are doing just great.
We all started to appear in our basic exams, I did what I had to do, the sister's did what they had to do, everyone of them did their internship and are senior proud members of a great country which I love. They all are US nationals I am not, I decided that US Atlantic barrier is too big, I use to get lost and had no ideas about other side of the Atlantic.
I bought properties in NY when no one else wanted them, developed with Fisher Brothers some of the finest property on Park Ave with my bosses in Kuwait. I know US like my second habit, I have great dreams of US as a country that will lead the world to greater prosperity and greater global unity and understanding.
My mother, my sisters, my brothers all of them are married in US are US nationals and are proud members of that country. We know the pain of 'pink slip' also know the pain of 're-possesions' and I know that a great coutry like US when it stops it is like a huge tanker, a huge gigantic effort to change course or to change gears, we are in middle of this changing gears,yes it is difficult, but it is great to keep the economy on track.
All this pain would be lost, CNBC last year was condemning Buffet, I too. Today we give him credit of salvation. US economic welfare is a guarantee of future prosperity for billions of poor masses who will not have a second chance, as a philanthropist involved with 2 cents worth of poverty eradication activities, I am blindsided and wish US quick recovery not for my own wealth but for the great trickle down impact that it brings to downtrodden. I have a smaller dream, but a coherent dream where I see poor and debased as a result of global prosperity share a little more calories, a little more fun, that is it, yes I will always be a optimist I will always be a bull.. |
