Jeff Greenfield's commentary about the presidential debate as seen on CBS' "Sunday Morning" today:
"Now imagine a candidate who is trying to level with the voters. What might he decide to say? Well, maybe our health care costs are rising so fast that we might have to ask ourselves a tough question: why should everyone over 65, including folks with seven figure incomes, get federally-funded health care? How about this: the only way to really free ourselves from our energy dependence, so costly, so dangerous, is to push the price of gasoline much higher to make alternatives to fossil fuel and the internal combustion engine attractive. Or maybe this: we can no longer assume that we will enjoy the levels of comfort and abundance that we have assumed was our birthright for more than half a century."
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I find it interesting that the only people more entitled than those he mentions in the quote (seniors with 7-figure incomes) are many of our "seasoned" legislators who are making the laws and balancing the budget on the heads of the rest of us--non-pensioned workers who will likely not see a dime from s system that will be broken and bankrupted by the time we retire.
thanks for this post.
lois, can you send me the link to the post about your mom's cantaloupe and corn on her shed's roof? or give me a hint as to about when you wrote it? i can't find it!
Those are dangerous words. Only 3rd Party candidates can get away with that. I can't handle politics. I keep assuming everyone is right.
DALENE -- what? I didn't understand any of that because I was distracted by the unicorns jumping over rainbows.
GRITTY -- "The Cantaloupe Kept Rolling Off" from November 2, 2007. You can also find it under "Dot."
VORQUEL -- so true. Yeah, where are the crazy third party candidates when you need them?
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