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The First Four Years Are The Hardest....
Mike Rowe Works ^ | 09/03/2012 | Mike Rowe

Posted on 09/26/2012 12:17:28 PM PDT by zippythepinhead

Dear Governor Romney, - My name is Mike Rowe and I own a small company in California called mikeroweWORKS. Currently, mikeroweWORKS is trying to close the country’s skills gap by changing the way Americans feel about Work. (I know, right? Ambitious.) Anyway, this Labor Day is our 4th anniversary, and I’m commemorating the occasion with an open letter to you. If you read the whole thing, I’ll vote for you in November.

(Excerpt) Read more at mikeroweworks.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dirtyjobs; mikerowe; mittromney; skilledlabor
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This is the full letter that Mike Rowe wrote to Mitt Romney.
1 posted on 09/26/2012 12:17:34 PM PDT by zippythepinhead
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To: zippythepinhead

Mike is campaigning in Ohio with the next President.


2 posted on 09/26/2012 12:29:06 PM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: zippythepinhead
our country has become emotionally disconnected from an essential part of our workforce. We are no longer impressed with cheap electricity, paved roads, and indoor plumbing. We take our infrastructure for granted, and the people who build it.

This is what I have seen as well. We are disconnected from a great many things because the consequences which normally are there to provide self correcting, negative feedback have been replaced in favor of an alternative sort of reality where the rules have been turned upside down.

We often are either rewarded for failure and even punished for success, and almost all of it due to government thanks to the power of people with no skin in the game being able to vote for characterless politicians who then give them free stuff.

The problem is that we are comfortable in our demise and thus clueless that it is actually happening, because we don't feel it like we used to before the redistribution of other people's money.

3 posted on 09/26/2012 12:34:00 PM PDT by GBA
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...Mike is campaigning in Ohio with the next President...

I thought he was with Romney.

4 posted on 09/26/2012 12:34:58 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Stupidity is not a crime, so you're free to go.)
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To: zippythepinhead

I often think that Mike Rowe’s life changed for the better when he started his show.


5 posted on 09/26/2012 1:00:07 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: FReepaholic

Yep! Mike is campaigning with the next President! MIIT ROMNEY!!
or would you prefer that Barack HUSSEIN OBAMA be relected?
After all, on Sunday night, Madonna encouraged all of her fans to Vote for “ the F***ing Black Muslim already in the Oval Office!” Quite an endorsement I must say!


6 posted on 09/26/2012 1:05:18 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: zippythepinhead

love Mike Rowe. my daughter worked with him on a termite story. What you see on TV is the real mike rowe. Does drink a lot of beer, though.


7 posted on 09/26/2012 1:06:48 PM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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Thank you for this great Post! Mike Rowe is one of my greatest Hero’s! I worked my way thru College and my BSME, BALA and MBA doing the dirtyest and most disgusting labor jobs in a major Chemical Plant! YUK! But it made me a better person!


8 posted on 09/26/2012 1:08:41 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Great Post! Thank you! but what is wrong with the consumption of Beer? The jobs and crap he deals with! Beer is a necessary Antidote!


9 posted on 09/26/2012 1:10:49 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

**** “Does drink a lot of beer, though” ****

Now I REALLY like him

TT


10 posted on 09/26/2012 1:12:23 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
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To: True Republican Patriot
Mike Rowe is one of my greatest Hero’s! I worked my way thru College and my BSME, BALA and MBA...

Hope you didn't pay too much for all that college. They really failed you in the English department.

It's heroes, not 'Hero's'.

(I'm a high school dropout with a GED...)

11 posted on 09/26/2012 1:15:04 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: 2nd Amendment

I love him, also. He comes across as Joe Average without any hidden damages.

If I were 25 years younger, I would look him up.


12 posted on 09/26/2012 1:19:49 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Windflier

I am an Engineer so who cares about an ‘s or an es?
And my I ask your claim to fame?


13 posted on 09/26/2012 1:21:04 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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To: Windflier

My hats off to You! I didn’t notice your parenthesis addition! Thats great that you went back and completed your education and Mike Rowe would be thrilled knowing You too!
Fortunately my education was much more economical back then as compared to the outrageous costs of today’s tuitions! And we studied our butts off back then in the days before grade inflation.....:-(


14 posted on 09/26/2012 1:28:10 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD SAVE OUR AMERICA from ALLAH and his Prophet, HUSSEIN OBAMA!!)
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I am an Engineer so who cares about an ‘s or an es?

If you don't care about your own language, you may as well start speaking Spanglish or Ebonics. Seems you agree with the subtle, but all to real degradation of our culture by the left.

And my I ask your claim to fame?

I'm an American who gives a shit about his country. How 'bout you?

15 posted on 09/26/2012 1:42:14 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Thats great that you went back and completed your education...

Thanks, but I took the GED exam the same day I walked out of my high school, and enrolled in a computer programming class the next day.

I've never stepped foot on a college campus, but I've done better in my career and business than any of my college educated siblings. That's not to say that college is a bad thing, but since about the late seventies, it's been no guarantee of financial success.

I don't know how, but I somehow sensed that would be the case when I was a youngster.

16 posted on 09/26/2012 1:48:54 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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If you don't care about your own language, you may as well start speaking Spanglish or Ebonics. Seems you agree with the subtle, but all to real degradation of our culture by the left.

That should be "all too real."

17 posted on 09/26/2012 2:00:15 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Does drink a lot of beer, though.

***
As if I didn’t love him enough!

I find him incredibly attractive — to the husband’s annoyance. (I am a very happily married, much older woman though.)


18 posted on 09/26/2012 2:20:01 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: Windflier
If you don't care about your own language, you may as well start speaking Spanglish or Ebonics. Seems you agree with the subtle, but all to real degradation of our culture by the left.

Thank you. It drives me nuts when grown and "educated" adults don't seem to care that they are functionally illiterate. "What difference does it make if I misspelled it!"

There are interpreters with me in Afghanistan, local Afghan kids, that write better English that a lot of Americans.

It's embarrassing.

19 posted on 09/26/2012 2:24:27 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: True Republican Patriot

I knew Mike Rowe back when he was shilling for QVC. A more down-to-earth guy with a razor wit, you’ll never meet.


20 posted on 09/26/2012 2:28:35 PM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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