Tremendous Friedman column: We used to try harder and do better

Aren't you buried somewhere in Yorba Linda? Have you arisen to strangle Tom Brokaw, since Ford is already dead?

 

So, in other words, you're a crook?

 

Hey Dick, as long as you're here maybe you can answer a question for me.

What the fuck were you thinking?

 

You must work for the Washington Post, for a little while longer anyway. Haha.

 

Sure. I have my Pulitzer hanging next to my championship belts at my home in the Island of Malta.

 

Oh, you must be one of those liberals who don't believe in drilling for oil in the U.S. because our land is so much more precious than everywhere else.

Whatever.

If I were president, I'd drill everywhere from Alaska to Hawaii. Starting with your mom.

And I'd be damn sure to get that on tape.

 

Insults aside, I think Tony's point was that if it weren't for you wheeny whiny liberals throwing hard-earned tax dollars at socialistic programs he would have a little more of his own money in his pocket.

What's wrong with that?

And the more money I got, the more money I can spend on a smokin' car with tinted windows and a bangin' speaker system to drown out the poverty around me.

 

About cars with bangin' speaker systems: Why do the loudest car stereos always play the worst music?

 

What programs? Social Security? Sure, let's just throw the old people and the crippled out on the streets. It's their fault that they are old and crippled! School lunch programs? Sure, it's the kids' fault that mom and dad are working four jobs between them, but can't make more than $8 an hour because the owner needs four yachts instead of three.

It's pigs at the trough. The same people who whine about a poor person receiving $100 a month in food stamps are the same ones who want no-bid government contracts and want the government to use eminent domain to throw people out of their homes so they can build a baseball stadium with the taxpayer's money.

 

After the decades I've tossed money at Social Security? Damn right I want to get paid.

 

Nobody cares about governing because we are a country that no longer cares about governing. We care about out political party winning. We treat politics like sports now. "I'm a Republican fan! Gooooooo, Republicans! BOOOOO, Democrats! I HOPE YOU BREAK A FUCKIN' LEG, YOU BUMS! YOU SUCK!"

Of course, once their damn political party does win they don't give a shit what they do when they get in office. Just as long as they GET in office. How many "die-hard Republicans" do you know that are still defending EVERYTHING Bush has done? Surprisingly, I know quite a few. And on the other side of the coin, in my attempt to be fair to both parties (because I HATE both parties), how many Democrats do you know that lay the blame of EVERYTHING on Bush and Bush alone?

So the GOP keeps their "fans" sniping at the Democrats and vice versa. And while everyone's sniping, nobody's doing.

 

I agree on that. And it says a lot for our country's short attention span that rather than worry about problems happening now, we're worried about what one candidate did in Vietnam, or the other candidate wearing a flag pin.