-> On 13 Jul 09  12:13:03, Richard Webb got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Palin Scandal

 RW> want consumers.  THe parakeet in a cage is a consumer, and
 RW> that's what we're supposed to be.  INstead of quality
 
 DC> The problem is, the parakeet is really in the mine and the bird is
 DC> dying.  

 RW> Maybe so, but before the air got too bad to support said
 RW> bird he was nicely limited with his clipped wings.  WHen you and I
 RW> were small we were told that American ingenuity and know-how, that
 RW> can-do attitude was what built this country. We were on the leading

At that point in time, we were actually manufacturing things in this 
country.  

 RW> edge of technology.  Within a decade we went from nothing for a space
 RW> program to setting boots on the moon.  OUr people were healthier, our
 RW> outlook for the future brighter.  Then came energy uncertainty, and the
 RW> folks on Maddison avenue telling us to forget about being
 RW> producers and doers, forget all that and be consumers.  They told us
 RW> in the newspapers, on television, "the American consumer ... "
 RW> A shift in attitude toward oneself which is not good.

And now the American consumer can't afford what little is still made in 
this country.  


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