Jul 11 2008
A Nation of Whiners? Maybe.
It appears that for once the basic statement made by Sen. Phil Gramm is correct - America is a nation of whiners. However, when one digs a little deeper, he was referring to Americans ‘whining’ about the cost of gas, the cost of food and the economy. He, as Sen. McCain’s Economic Advisor for his presidential campaign, believes that the average American (or peasant to him) is imagining the economy is so bad. Apparently when we pay no less than $50 to fill our car (and that’s just regular!), we aren’t really paying that much - it’s only in our head.
It would seem that somehow we are having a mass hallucination.
In one regard, America has become a nation of whiners. People whine about smoking in restaurants, people whine about not smoking in restaurants. We whine about too many developments, yet many of those whiners are the same people who have only recently moved into said developments. We whine about what words are allowed on tv, we whine about what words are not allowed on tv. We whine about not feeling well, we whine about working out to feel better.
So yes, the basic statement by Mr. Gramm is correct.
What is not correct is that facade that somehow McCain and his team have a clue about what the average American is going through. Mr. Gramm would not have made that statement in reference to our legitimate complaints about the way this administration is running things if he had to live paycheck to paycheck. Sen. McCain would have been more disgusted by Mr. Gramm’s statement if he hadn’t married into billions.
Once again the GOP has only proven they are completely out of touch with the American people and with reality. If the Economic Advisor for a campaign has the audacity to belittle the American people AND claim the economy is not doing badly at all and we are just imagining it how, exactly, will the economy get better under their administration?
On a different note, do you think the credit card companies will accept “you are only imagining I have a bill” if we refuse to pay? Probably not.
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