Stay the Course?

"Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicans say, 'Stay the course.'

"Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out!"

If you haven't read Lee Iacocca's book Where Have All the Leaders Gone? (Scribner, New York 2007), be sure to pick up a copy. The two paragraphs above are straight from Chapter 1. It's worth the $25.00. Read it. Then read it again. Then carry it around with you, everywhere you go. Put it down right in front of you. When you catch someone's eye, say, "Have you read this book yet?"

Iacocca asks some hard questions. Questions that should be on the lips of every American. It won't take many pages of reading to get his candid impression of the President. Iacocca admits that he voted for him in 2000, because he had known his mother and father.

My thanks to a friend in Georgia for sharing this book with me!

Call your House Representative and your U.S. Senator. Ask if s/he has read this book. If the answer is No, tell them to get it and read it - every page.