Bob Herbert:Stop Being Stupid

[cal04]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/opinion/27herbert.html

I’ve got a new year’s resolution and a new slogan for the country.

The resolution may be difficult, but it’s essential. Americans must resolve to be smarter going forward than we have been for the past several years.

Look around you. We have behaved in ways that were incredibly, astonishingly and embarrassingly stupid for much too long. We’ve wrecked the economy and mortgaged the future of generations yet unborn. We don’t even know if we’ll have an automobile industry in the coming years. It’s time to stop the self-destruction.

The slogan? “Invest in the U.S.” By that I mean we should stop squandering the nation’s wealth on unnecessary warfare overseas and mindless consumption here at home and start making sensible investments in the well-being of the American people and the long-term health of the economy.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. But wait! Wait!

There are plasma TV's to buy and reputations to smear at a drop of a hat! My ghod, where is Herbert's sense of proportion these days!

[keep_it_real]

2. It’s time to stop being stupid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/opinion/27herbert.html?_r=1

[Demeter]

3. We're Not All Stupid

and the brains among us are considering Darwinian solutions.

[dtotire]

4. delete

[Skittles]

5. some of us were not stupid

many of us watched in sheer horror at how things unfolded

[Tansy_Gold]

6. Unfortunately, Herbert is speaking to the 99% who were/are

stupid, but only the 1% who weren't/aren't are paying any attention to him.



Tansy Gold, who may have the percentages wrong but you know what I mean.. . . . .

[MasonJar]

7. If only enough people read this clear reason, maybe some will adopt change.

[salguine]

8. Quiet! "Survivor" is on!

[Jakes Progress]

9. "Survivor" got what plants like.

It's got "lectrolites".