“You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline,” Phil Gramm told the Washington Times in an interview last week.”
Loss of competitiveness? America in decline? Those phrases sound pretty egg headed, and are not the phrases very many Americans would use to do their whining, if that is how one wants to term current complaining. But the remarks were ill advised because Americans have several very legitimate reasons to complain recently. Is it okay complain about $4.00+ gasoline? What about the mortgage loan scandal and enormous losses the tax payers will have to make good? Who’s responsible, the average citizen? What about more auto company closings?
Americans do whine at times, but this just wasn’t the time to say it because there are justifiable reasons to complain, and government screw ups are responsible for the energy crisis and the mortgage industry crisis.l
Bad timing by Gramm, and poor examples.
If you take him at his word in his explanation, he was talking about our leaders, not Americans in general.
Either way, I can’t put my faith in the government to solve my problems. They are the ones who created most of the problems our country, as a whole faces. We are the ones with the power to change it. No amount of complaining will fix it... Remember: we put them in there.
Now we just need to work to throw the bums out.
You can’t ge much more simplistic than that.