We watched Good Will Hunting last night... awesome movie, it never gets old, and Will's rant about why he didn't take the job with the NSA is perfect!
Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working for the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, cuz I did my job well. But, maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in...
(switch from interview to Sean's office)
...North Africa or the Middle East and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding... fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the marines to secure the area," cuz they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there gettin' shot - just like it wasn't them when their number got called cuz they were off pullin' a tour in the National Guard.
It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job cuz he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helpin' my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And, meanwhile he's starvin' cuz every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better.
I figure fuck it, while I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.
How do ya like them apples!?! 
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