it's all about the benjamins

By Todd Stadler · Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:19pm

I am so sick of being told that I need to help spend America out of this recession.

Back in the day, wars and bad economic conditions brought about appeals for conservation, but the men and women of that era are mostly dead, as are, it would seem, their ideals.

So we are told that we must spend, spend, spend to save the country.

It makes me sad that people think America can be boiled down to capitalism. As if the first sign of economic troubles meant that America had failed.

I was led to believe that America was nobler than that. That it had something to do with freedom and democracy. Apparently, those are ideals we're willing to abandon as long as the cash keeps flowing in.

Maybe someone can put little American flags in our cereal boxes so we have something to wave when they announce that they've repealed the fourth amendment due to the "emergency situation".

Gads, I'm bitter today.