Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

Really good read. For as much crap as Carter gets, this speech from almost 30 years ago was really spot on. His speech about government, energy, and politics is important, but so is his early identification of the infection that has completely contaminated the American culture:

In a nation that was proud of hard [...]

I hate to say it, but I sort of agree with the GOP and Mitt Romney on this one:

Without that bailout, Detroit will need to drastically restructure itself. With it, the automakers will stay the course - the suicidal course of declining market shares, insurmountable labor and retiree burdens, technology atrophy, product inferiority [...]

Tonight I wrote my representative, David Wu, of Oregon’s 1st district. It said:

I saw Peter DeFazio on KGW’s evening news pushing back on a hurried bill giving the Secretary of the Treasury such massive power in this bailout. I hope you and he can work together to represent Oregon and all Americans in the face [...]