Never Rush the Cook

When dinner is ready, hungry children never have to be rounded up to come to the dinner table, a simple sound of the bell is enough. If the dinner is still in the stove and uncooked, never tell the children that they should be eating right at this moment, because it will only increase their hunger and frustrate them. Some job seekers are guilty of destroying a hungry childs patience, they know the child will soon be banging on the kitchen door demanding to eat at once. The cook will then be forced to turn up the stove and the food will get burned. Everybody will miss a good dinner and the cook will be fired. Blame it all on the instigator who provoked the hungry children in order to become the new chef. Patience is a virtue and when the food is ready everybody will be served.

In 1948 almost every person I knew was almost broke. Only one guy in my neighbourhood had an automobile---people looked at him with awe and wished that some day they would also be able to own one. There were no rabble rousers that blamed it on Capitalism or the federal government. Nobody said that we would get a chance to better our lives if there were a socialistic system. We did the best we could to survive working at the low paying jobs that were available in the garment-centre of New York City. We waited patiently for the economy to improve in hopes of finding better paying work. Our prayers were soon answered. Because of the ingenuity and tax free investments of creative businessmen things began to change. Factories and offices opened and the economy boomed---there were soon great jobs available for every American across the nation. Hallelujah!!.

Career minded politicians that demand that the government put unearned money into the pockets of the poor by generous freebies are doing a great disservice to the country. Also politicians that promise to provide millions of unneeded federal jobs if elected will wreck our economy. Those handouts will unfairly tax the only ones that in the long term can help American workers. Those saviours are the people that invest their money in American businesses. The unemployed and underpaid must pray like I once did that the ingenuity of the American businessman will come to their rescue. They have done it before and will do it again if only given the chance.

I know many of us children are hungry and have lost their patience with the cook. But we must not listen to those that tell us to bang on the kitchen door for faster service. Because if we do we will force the cook to turn up the flame and burn our food. Patience is a virtue and if practiced will give more people a chance to share the great American dream and a good dinner.
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