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Celebrate Your Freedom (below)

Quotes for the Month

Job Seeking Tips: Building Skills for the New Economy

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Celebrate Your Freedom

(author unknown)

To Kill an American

"There was a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

Someone wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is. So they would know when they found one.

'An American is English, or French, Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, Arab, Pakistani, or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole, or one of the many other tribes known as Native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in one of the most prosperous countries of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God-given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

The national symbol of America, the Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those who aided and abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself, because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.' ”

Quotes for the Month

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.”
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, Oct.7, 1952
US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
-Albert Einstein, “Out of My Later Years,” 1950, US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
-George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

“The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.”
-Justice Anthony Kennedy, US jurist (1936 - )

Job Seeking Tips: Building Skills for the New Economy

from The Career News [newsletter@thecareernews.com] June 1, 2009
Abridged: DLC Organization

“The new economy is more dynamic, faster, and entrepreneurial. With dynamism, however, comes risk. Up to a third of all jobs are in flux every year. As new companies spring up and established companies respond to change and competition, fewer workers can look forward to long careers with a single employer. This job "churning" means that, because companies can retain less of their investment in training, they invest less. This means that the old forms of security that workers enjoyed have dramatically declined.

Employees must now continually reinvent themselves throughout their working lives, even if they remain with the same employer. And the responsibility for getting the education and training an employee needs has shifted from the company to the individual. As a result, skills and adaptability have become the new job security.”

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