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I run hot and luke warm on Tom. I think he needs to choose his friends and affiliations more carefully. I think he is like some other people that appear to be nice, he is gullible. I also think he is a sharp fellow who understands what it takes to make the world run and what makes a lot of people tick.

The speech is one any of us who live in the business world and work for a living could make and that does not make it any less true. True but not exceptional in the large scheme... exceptional only because it was made in the Spinate.

Tom has it right though... they have quit caring about what is good for the country and instead constantly care about what is good for them. If he hates DC we have at least one thing firmly in common.

I’ve wondered for decades now if Oklahoma could ever be truly prosperous or if it were so if it would still be Oklahoma? A builder I know says that it never has gotten really bad in Oklahoma because it is never really that great. Even at that though it is good enough for him to have a nice ranch, drive nice trucks, take nice vacations, pay his hands pretty well (by the looks of the parking lot and their houses). I think things being good enough is what makes Okies appreciate things more and what makes them rely on one another for a hand up and not a hand out when you get away from Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Lawton. ‘Course, you could do away with all three cities and the best part of Oklahoma would be left, the land and the people who work the land.

Frankly, I like Oklahoma just like it is. I wouldn’t like it to get any more prosperous or populated than it is now and it would be better yet if a few people would pack their crap and move back south of the Red and the Rio Grande.