My aunt used to say this, when she saw that someone was trying to be kind, or conciliatory, or even just show some enlightenment after behaving like ...er...a donkey.
So, Kudos for the Governator, who said this about the oil company consortium which is pushing, expensively and hard, for proposition 23, their great last hope, on the California ballot:
"They are creating a shell argument that they are doing this to protect jobs.
Does anybody really believe they are doing this out of the goodness of their
black oil hearts - spending millions and millions of dollars to save jobs?"
-- Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, September 27, 2010.
Thanks to DH and Hail to the Governator, who has finally seen the light..... I'm shocked at the honesty!
I work for an oil company, and one of the VP's sent a company email suggesting we donate substantial amounts money to oppose a state bill requiring our state to match the average per pupil spending of our surrounding states on the grounds that it would reduce our business tax breaks. How out of touch does a person have to be to think that we might want to donate money to maintain his millionaire's bonus instead of our children's education?
ReplyDeleteOil feeds my family, and the company has always been very good to me, but the disconnect between the people at the top whose children go to private schools and the rest of us strikes me as strange. I know well that it's a boom and bust industry where costs are high and prices are not really predictable but it hurts me that there is such callous disregard for those lower on the totem pole; our work and loyalty make a big contribution to their success
Thank you for your comments, and yes, those putting out the big bucks to A. Get this on the Ballot, and B. campaign hard FOR it will be laughing all the way to the bank if it passes.
ReplyDeleteBut somehow they have convinced the people who have the most to lose, the Tea Party, to go out en masse and stump for prop 23. How dumb does it get? If I lacked respect for tea party thinking before, now I'm sure they are brain dead.