Posted by
Andrews on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:47:26 AM
I really have nothing to add to what Phil Gramm said. We
ARE a nation of whiners. We have the slightest setback and we cry about it and expect Washington to solve all our problems. We expect everything to just keep going and going with not even the slightest bump in the road.
What is our big crisis? Gasoline is about
as costly per mile driven as in the 1960's?
Housing prices, after a decade of rapid rise fell a bit? Mortgages are
still less costly and easier to get than in the late 1980's? The Dow is still well above 10,000? We won in Iraq and Afghanistan but it didn't immediately become safer than downtown Baltimore? (Although it isn't much riskier.)
Boo hoo!
Except for politicians who plan to kill the economy with Kyoto or
"green" and "renewable" technologies to end an imaginary threat, and
some who want to surrender in Iraq, I don't see anything all that bad
on the horizon.
I say run Phil Gramm for president instead of McCain. He has my vote. A politician who tells us the truth.
THAT is change I can believe in.
POSTSCRIPT
Sadly, his involvement with the McCain campaign forced Phil to, well let's use Democrat phrases and say he "added a bit of nuance", and claim that he was talking about our leaders.
While our leaders may be cheerleaders for the cradle to grave caretaker state, let's face it, they wouldn't be selling if we weren't buying. We may have learned to whine about everything from our leaders, but we learned those lessons well. The average citizen is as likely to confront a cold coffee with threats of lawsuits as with a shrug. We are the ones crying "there ought to be a law" at the drop of a hat.
Sorry, Mr. Gramm, but I don't buy your "clarification". Politicians only whine because it works. They whine because we do.
Still, even with his "nuance", Mr. Gramm is much clearer than anyone running, from any party.
UPDATE
Since I already had a comment claiming Gramm is to blame for the mortgage "crisis", I will refer readers to
my earlier comments on this slander. I don't think anyone takes it seriously outside of left wing circles, but you never know. It amounts to little more than the
usual big government tactic of looking at a heavily regulated field and blaming on all the problems on the first tentative steps of deregulation. It is absurd int he extreme, but not unexpected.