On the Subject of Phil Gramm.

A little late for this perhaps but I felt I must chime in on Phil Gramm's recent comment about us being a "nation of whiners". From a purely economic stand point and from the point of view of a person that has probably never even seen first hand poverty, he probably thinks we are whining. Look at Bush and Chaney, and that ilk and you don't see a lot of people that ever really had to worry about where their next meal was gonna come from or when their house would be taken away from them. So, to Gramm and his fellow Washington elite, we probably do seem whiney when we are pissed about skyrocketing food and fuel prices. Then of course you must take on the mental recession quote, basically saying that the fact that we need to scratch and claw just to stay even is really all in our heads. Wow, Phil you have achieved the status of universal ass hat. actually I may have to amend that to ass turtle neck because you really got your head up there. Look, I have a hard but good job. I make an above average wage for Minnesota. I live with a girl who makes, on the average, more than I do. Together, even three years ago, we would be living really well. Now, not so much. The rise in gas prices, the decline of the house market and the horrid increase in all other costs has made it so, even on two above average incomes, it is still hard to survive. The fear that it is the Gramm mindset that could one day be head of the U.S. Treasury makes me wake up screaming some nights. A person so disconnected with the world around him that he can't see how bad things are getting in this country. Well really, they can see it, they just don't care. Honestly, anyone who thinks their government has their best interests at heart should read a few history books and let the truth sink in. Opening your eyes only hurts for a second and every second of your life after that but it's a good pain and far better than the numbness of stupidity.
I am sorry, I have begun to rant. I really just wanted to say a few things to Mr. Gramm. I know he won't read this but just in case.
I do not feel that we are a nation of whiners. A nation of mostly pussies and a ton of morons and ignorant buffoons, yes, I couldn't argue with that. But whiners? no. I know you do not feel we need a minimum wage in this country, you like the idea of indentured slavery and fifty two people living in a one bedroom apartment because money is a burden we normal people just can't handle. I understand that you and your wife were involved in the whole Enron debacle and probably helped free thousands of people from that very same monetary burden. I also get that you and your cohorts would love to drop our country into destitution to turn this nation into an industrial complex were the rich ruled the poor with an iron fist. And that sir, is why I feel you are out of touch. So I want to do my part, I want you back in the loop as it were. Here is my offer. For one year, you and your wife come and live the life of my girlfriend and I and in return, we shall step into your shoes. You do our jobs, you pay our bills and we will do the same vice versa. I think that, by the end of one year you will really get a feeling for what it's like to be a person again, it might just knock you off of your ivory tower.
So that's my offer, after one year, if you still feel like Americans are whiners, I will graciously ask you to go piss up a rope, you elitist ass turtle neck.