A Reputation in Tatters
My old daddy talked a good bit to us kids about reputation and what it meant. Almost no matter what the subject was, from what kind of tires to put on the car to where he did his banking, reputation was what meant most to him. He could get over a little higher price and wink at the cheaper alternative if reputation was at stake.
Daddy’s gone now a bunch of years, but he’d be hot about what these guys in Washington have done to give America a cheaper alternative of the great nation he knew. How he hated FDR and those New Dealers, but he never called them sell-outs. Daddy thought they were wrong, but wrong was something you argued about.
This small bunch that’s stampeded our heritage, and they are a small bunch, have sold off at a discount our greatest strengths as a nation and they’ve done it in the name of fear of another terrorist attack, as if we ordinary folks were somehow too weak and scared and stupid to see our way through to a solution. Not squaring with the American public,…