A Switch went off in JStack’s head
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin on 18-02-2010
Joseph Andrew Stack couldn’t take it anymore.
Sadly, I know exactly how Stacks feels felt. I’m not off to attack anybody anytime soon but I can relate. Let me guess JStack’s story without even reading his manifesto. All I needed to hear was he was a crazy software engineer and I understood completely.
JStack has lost everything starting back in 2000 (Enron, dot com bust), 2001 (9/11), and culminating with the latest disclosure of graft and corruption on a scale that can only be described by using the word trillion(s). Might as well be a bajillion. I know we like to only call it a recession, but a lot of people, families have been and are being torn apart and destroyed. And there’s the IRS trying to wring money out of them as they stand in the ashes of what used to be their life.
Slowly, over a decade of being underemployed, contrary to the American Dream, Joseph Stack lost everything (except his wife and kid it would seem. Maybe they were leaving too,) including his savings and retirement because he has been dipping in to it off and on as needed over the years. The wife and kids do need a place to live and food to eat. By 2006 or 2007 he probably began to see the writing on the wall: his career as a software engineer making more money than he made as a twenty-somthing was not coming back. He must retrain; find a new career.
But wait. There’s the wife and kid, the mortgage, the shitty job not quite covering it all (if he had that) and the IRS breathing down his back for using his own money to survive. He wonders, how can I afford to go back to school with all these responsibilities? It really is quite the trap. And all the time the letters come. The phone rings. The IRS wants their money. They need it you see. They need it more than you do. Its like a bill you owe, they explain.
I bet Joseph Stack even went to the government for retraining assistance. They advertise assistance on the radio and newspapers. I bet he was told they didn’t offer any retraining assistance for software engineers. What does a college educated software engineer need government assistence for? Well if your career is in India and you don’t happen to speak farsi, you need to find something else to do. Like maybe learn Farsi.
If stack has been stuck in the contract employment scam, I bet he hasn’t been able get a dime of unemployment over the years, either. That’s been my experience. Now at least I know I am not the only one getting fucked over while the politicians and there corporate cronies print money for themselves.
There is a fine line between war and peace; Sanity and craziness; Sound thought and irrational behavior. All it takes is a flick of a switch. Our freedom and well being are in grave danger. The politicians need to quit playing their little games and get the economy under control and they need to do it fast or who knows what kind of crazy shit we are going see.
