善良で、正直で、まともなアメリカ人を見つけるのは難しい

Why is it so hard for the Obama administration to find good, honest, decent Americans to work for it? It seems every day we are learning that this person that President wants for his cabinet or that person he wants to work in Treasury has had some problem with something. I don’t understand. Could Daniel Schorr, in his NPR’s All Things Considered piece of March 4, “Vetting Process Out of Control,” be right when he writes “that the issue should not be past mistakes, but transparency about them,” when commenting on why it’s OK that the Senate confirmed Timothy Geithner despite his tax indiscretions simply because he came clean about […]

代表権のない課税?

It seems like the only solution that any of these so-called leaders — whether they be in Washington or in State Houses across the country — seem to have to our financial situation is higher taxes. Across the nation, the answer is the same: Increase taxes after taxes after taxes to get rid of the financial havoc that has taken hold of our economy and gripped our country. Is it me or is this just plain silly? All of us – I believe that I am speaking for the masses — are trying to make better lives for ourselves, our families and our communities, and yet the government on every […]