Outsourcing, the buzzword of the political season. Unfortunately, those that lose their jobs to overseas competition won't find much solace in these words. However, a uniquely American job still exists that can never be outsourced. The American Cowboy!
American Cowboys learned their craft from South American Gauchos and Mexico Vaqueros, but the American Cowboy truly embodies the spirit of America. The world first learned about them through dime novels and then through movies. Both of these mediums depicted cowboys in a somewhat fictional manner. Nonetheless, this American institution gave birth to the modern sport of Rodeo and even America's leaders from Theodore Roosevelt to George W Bush claim this rich heritage.
America exports the cowboy image around the globe, which personifies the American spirit; wild, independent and free. Often these values seem misunderstood by the global community as brutish, pig-headed and undiplomatic. Even America's closest allies quickly point to these values as weaknesses rather than strengths. But when the world community looks for a defender of freedom the American Cowboy gets a phone call. Think about it for a minute. When the non-threatening soft spoken government bureaucrat fails and you need a champion you start looking for a rough and tumble sort of fellow.
To quote Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, "Those that don't know him won't like him and them that do sometimes don't know how to take him. He ain't wrong he's just different". One could describe America the same way. Never looking for a fight, but never turning away from one either, especially when the stakes include freedom. Outsourcing this job will never happen.
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