It started a week ago, listening to Tim Conway Jr’s talk show – had to be Sept. 11th. He took calls from people living off the government, and one thing he said really caught my attention. He said “We are all tired.” He went on to say something to the effect of: We work hard all day long doing too many jobs at once, we come home, grab a bite, see the kids, see the spouse, and drop into bed just to get up and start it all over again. And it never stops. We think nothing of calling or emailing colleagues at all hours – and they answer! Because we can’t stop because we have too much work to do, but can’t hire anyone because no one can afford it.
I thought, “Man, that’s how I feel!” and it was good to hear someone say it on the public airways.
I kept meaning to email him, or call his show, but never did.
Then Sunday, Sept. 29th, there was this:
First, there was
Ben Stein on taxes on the
Sunday Morning show asking the administration why he was being punished for earning 35 cents on the dollar. Then, there was
Bob Schieffer on F
ace the Nation, calling out Robert Gibbs for his “snarky response” to House Republican Leader John Boehner’s previous week’s carefully worded statement that he would reluctantly vote for just the lower and middle income tax cuts, if that was all he had in front of him.
Bob Schieffer said:
“Blame it on a long memory, but I can remember when the first move by a president like Lyndon Johnson or maybe a smart aide in the Eisenhower White House would not have been a snarky press release.
I’m guessing LBJ would have been on the phone to Boehner in five minutes after seeing him on TV, saying something like, “If you’re serious, why don’t you come over here quietly and we’ll try to work out something good for both of us and the folks out there?”
Call me a romantic, but I believe that might have happened.
As we saw, no chance it could happen today.
And we’re right back to the partisan war. Too bad, really. “
I just about jumped out of my chair. NOW we are going to get somewhere, I thought. And we did.
True to form, along came Velma R. Hart at Obama’s “Investing in America” townhall. She used the “E” word – exhausted. She said she was an
exhausted woman, and asked the President if this was “her new reality”.
Michelle Malkin’s column made reference to the Obama administration as being called the “let them eat cake” presidency.
So it’s not just me. It is not the fact that I have been burdened with the passing of my father, who was also my business partner and very close friend. I work very long hours, and I am tired. There isn’t enough business to go around, and everyone is fighting for something. With steel prices set to rise again, we are faced with a price increase, and Lord only knows what this will cause.
Sometimes I think Dad got out just in time.
