It's really rare in the pages of the
Detroit Free Press to find a columnist more ignorant than the
Detroit News' Nolan Finley (who, thankfully, we're only tortured with once a week). Step up on the stage....Tom Walsh! You've won the coveted "I'm Even More Ignorant than Nolan Finley" award for the month of August!
Really--
according to Mr. Walsh, to fix our economy we merely need to fix our culture. It's simple--our freedom to divorce has brokered an "easy come, easy go" attitude that has undermined our commitment to living up to our obligations. Needless to say, the best Mr. Walsh can come up with to lend credence to his theory is a chat he had over coffee with an old friend.
Thank God he cleared that up for all of us....
I appreciate that Mr. Walsh is a business columnist and thus tends to see everything in black and white, in its simplest terms (trust me, I've been in business for almost thirty years and there aren't a lot of brainiacs in corporate America--and the higher up the corporate ladder you go, the worse it gets), but this is a new low in moronic rants. It's one thing to know someone's peeing in your coffee, it's another thing to drink it anyway. Bottoms up, Mr. Walsh!
If anything, I'd say the cause of American's economic downturn...just off the top of my head...would be, oh, I don't know...horrendous decisions by America's banking leaders, the fact that none of them are in jail for having mislead the American people and crashing our economy, unfettered greed, the growing income disparity between America's welathy elite and the rest of us, the merewordscannotdescribe horrendous leadership of President Bush the lesser, weak regulations against businesses, republicans in the House and their actions to do absolutely fucking
nothing to create jobs despite campaigning on it in 2010, the disastrous and un-American tea party...you get the gist.
One thing is for certain though: the ease with which one can get a divoce had
absolutely fucking nothing to do with it.
Peace,
emaycee
