Do you oldsters remember when Walt Kelly countered “I Like Ike” (Dwight D. Eisenhower’s slogan) with “I Go Pogo”.
Migosh, Eisenhower was a decent guy and the last decent Republican President.
I figure my only possible vote is for Hilary Clinton, even though I dislike dynasty politics and I figure there are many better possible candidates.
However, what if those of you who feel differently were to write in Pogo? Would a couple hundred thousand votes for Pogo send a strong message to the politicians? Remember that Pogo also said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011
"We have met the enemy, and he is us!"
Walt Kelly described our current problems eloquently through the words of Pogo above.
Thinking of these words was my reaction to "How Apple Would Solve the Debt Crisis: If U.S. were run like business, it wouldn't cut spending" by David Weidner, MarketWatch, 2011-08-02.
He wrote that rather being like Apple and looking to the future, we Americans are like a shrinking company like Eastman Kodak. We won't borrow money for growth or raise prices to meet costs. We have defeated ourselves.
To think that we have a Department of Defense to protect ourselves against foreign enemies, real and imagined, but we don't have a Department of Imagination, or a Congress of Imagination, or a President of Imagination, or a People of Imagination to protect us from ourselves. We have let our own, false rhetoric mislead us into a defeatist attitude. And it is being orchestrated by big corporations more interested in short-term profits than long-term growth.
Thinking of these words was my reaction to "How Apple Would Solve the Debt Crisis: If U.S. were run like business, it wouldn't cut spending" by David Weidner, MarketWatch, 2011-08-02.
He wrote that rather being like Apple and looking to the future, we Americans are like a shrinking company like Eastman Kodak. We won't borrow money for growth or raise prices to meet costs. We have defeated ourselves.
To think that we have a Department of Defense to protect ourselves against foreign enemies, real and imagined, but we don't have a Department of Imagination, or a Congress of Imagination, or a President of Imagination, or a People of Imagination to protect us from ourselves. We have let our own, false rhetoric mislead us into a defeatist attitude. And it is being orchestrated by big corporations more interested in short-term profits than long-term growth.
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