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In reply to the discussion: Appreciation Thread for WilliamPitt [View all]theboss
(10,491 posts)I've been here since 2003, and don't have that many posts.
What did I do in the 2000s?
I donated money to the causes I cared about. I spent a lot of time on Capitol Hill strategizing with staffers I knew. I wasted an incredible amount of energy on John Edwards much to my shame. I helped two friends get elected to their state legislatures; one is a Congressman now. With any luck, he'll be a senator by the time we're 50. And he's everything we would want in a Democratic Senator.
What I else? I got married. I adopted three siblings out of foster care. I adopted two dogs who were days away from being euthanized.
I became a Catholic. I joined and then quit the Knights of Columbus.
I more or less stopped the business I work from shipping about 15 percent of our work force overseas.
I helped a kid get into college.
I created a scholarship.
It's been a good decade.
I don't know who Symbolman is.
The Andy saga still annoys the fuck out of me, because the reason I have money to do the things listed about is because I understand hospital reimbursement as well as anyone in the country. I was around during that time and posted messages and sent DMs and tried anything I could do to get attention, because I knew what everyone was trying to do was noble but completely wrong. And because I was not a DU celebrity at the time, no one paid attention and most were hostile.
"How dare you come here with facts and experience and knowledge??!?!?!?! Our passion shall win the day......"
Of course, the important takeaway from all that was Will Pitt's drunken declaration of vengeance of all those who harmed his best friend Andy (whom he met once and whose fundraising he undercut with a "what's going on here" post). I believe his vengeance consisted of saying mean things to anonymous people.
(By the way, when Will himself was having issues with ACA and wrote his Obama is an asshole thread, I again tried to help because - again - this is my business and I understand hospital reimbursement as well as anyone in the country. I think I was called an asshole when I was not ignored).
In many ways, Will came to symbolize DU to me and it's why I post like three times a month.
Knowledge, action, ability? We scoff at these things.
Righteous anger is all that matters.....Drunken righteous anger even more so.
I like to fix problems.