McCain Economic Adviser Calls US 'A Nation of Whiners'
Maybe former Senator Phil Gramm could have put it a little better than just calling Americans “whiners” outright. What Gramm should have said is that “some” Americans (strongly accentuated by the media) are “whiners,” which would have been a true statement:
Gramm: America A Nation Of Whiners
Sometimes the truth hurts, and to what Gramm was trying to convey, many American’s agree with him. Don’t believe me? Read the comments attached to the Washington Post story. The remarks are far more direct, but no less true. Better yet, just listen to the whining going on within the media about Gramm’s comments.
I found it interesting the difference on how the media covered this story and Barrack Obama’s Father’s Day speech a few weeks ago (Obama's Father's Day Speech). Gramm called us whiners, while Obama used language that laid the blamed for the breakdown of the family unit squarely with fathers, and only fathers. Really, no one else is to blame? Not the anti-father court system or family service organizations that keep fathers away from their kids? Not the entitlement programs that award poor life choices? Nope, it is all the fathers fault. Obama’s Father’s Day speech was filled with the same old male-bashing rhetoric that was responsible for driving a wedge between the father and his family in the first place. Society has devalued the father’s role in the family so much, how anyone could be surprised at the current state of family is beyond me.
But people are upset because Phil Gramm dared to say out loud what many of us believe, numerous American’s are cry-babies, choosing to believe the negativity that permeates the media, and live by the motto “ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for.” Gramm calls us “whiners,” while Obama tells fathers to stop acting like “boys,” and Gramm is the one criticized.
To Gramm’s point, and the opinion of many other economic experts, the economy is not nearly as bad as the media is playing it out to be. But if you yell recession often enough and loud enough, people start believing it. We should worry less about the language Gramm used, and focus more on the truth of his message.
Gramm: America A Nation Of Whiners
Sometimes the truth hurts, and to what Gramm was trying to convey, many American’s agree with him. Don’t believe me? Read the comments attached to the Washington Post story. The remarks are far more direct, but no less true. Better yet, just listen to the whining going on within the media about Gramm’s comments.
I found it interesting the difference on how the media covered this story and Barrack Obama’s Father’s Day speech a few weeks ago (Obama's Father's Day Speech). Gramm called us whiners, while Obama used language that laid the blamed for the breakdown of the family unit squarely with fathers, and only fathers. Really, no one else is to blame? Not the anti-father court system or family service organizations that keep fathers away from their kids? Not the entitlement programs that award poor life choices? Nope, it is all the fathers fault. Obama’s Father’s Day speech was filled with the same old male-bashing rhetoric that was responsible for driving a wedge between the father and his family in the first place. Society has devalued the father’s role in the family so much, how anyone could be surprised at the current state of family is beyond me.
But people are upset because Phil Gramm dared to say out loud what many of us believe, numerous American’s are cry-babies, choosing to believe the negativity that permeates the media, and live by the motto “ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for.” Gramm calls us “whiners,” while Obama tells fathers to stop acting like “boys,” and Gramm is the one criticized.
To Gramm’s point, and the opinion of many other economic experts, the economy is not nearly as bad as the media is playing it out to be. But if you yell recession often enough and loud enough, people start believing it. We should worry less about the language Gramm used, and focus more on the truth of his message.
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