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Originally Posted by rivaridger1
Examples of being given " the boot ":
1. You are a major in the USAF with a family and have been up for promotion for Lt. Colonel two times and did not make the cut. You have served 20 years. Your next posting is a weather station in Northern Greenland for the next 36 months, if you do not retire. You have been given the " boot ".
2. You are a 50 year old Vice President of Advertising of a company headquartered in Dallas with a fat expense account recently acquired by a much larger one. You are offered a position in Missoula Montana as part the restructuring program managing a training program for high school drop outs or an early retirement package. You have been given the " boot ".
3. You use The Village Health model for your primary medical care and are told if you do not change your perfectly good insurance plan, which was perfectly acceptable when they first solicited you to be a patient, to one in which you have no interest whatsoever, you will have to find a new primary care physician. You have been given "the "boot ".
In each instance you had a choice as has been pointed out numerous times. It does not change the fact that a size 14 has just connected with your nether region.
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Fascinating. In each instance you precisely laid out the available CHOICES, then proceeded to characterize it as being given "the boot", or no choice. Somewhere between getting from point A to point B you took an unscheduled left turn.
1) You can go to Greenland or retire----YOUR CHOICE
2) You can go to Montana or retire------YOUR CHOICE
3) You can change docs or insurance----YOUR CHOICE
Is there some new, secret definition of the word choice in the dictionary now that I am unaware of? Or is this common core vocabulary? Or maybe just fuzzy logic?