Idiot

The Times Leader recently published a letter from a person who says he will not stop and aid anyone who is un-American enough to drive a foreign car. He says he will do this in spite of the Good Samaritan law here in PA. This means he is enough of an idiot to break the law and refuse to stop and help a suffering child because her mother has been unpatriotic enough to buy a Volvo.

A)I wonder if he knows how many of those "foreign cars" are made here in Merica?
B)Does he refuse medical treatment since MRI machines and other diagnostic machines are often made elsewhere?
C) Does he eat fruit? When is the last time you saw a Made in USA sticker on a banana?
D) Does he take medicine? Some of the most prestigious pharmaceutical companies are European. Does he tell his doctor to prescribe only American-made drugs? Maybe he grows his own.
E) Does he have a TV? DVD player? Cell phone? GPS system? Computer? Radio? In fact, finding anything electronic with all components built in the US would be quite a feat.
F) Does he buy clothes?
G) Does he buy gas for his American car?

It's a global economy, stupid. Obviously, this guy really ticked me off. I know his heart was broken when GM went bankrupt. And I feel his pain. But any company that isn't well-run is not going to do well in these hard times. My husband heard a speaker on the radio who said that we shouldn't talk about the bad economy. We should talk about hard times. It's more honest and more accurately expresses what's really going on in our country right now. In hard times, we shouldn't be pointing the finger of blame. It's not the fault of the poor college student who is running an imported Toyota Corolla into the ground so that he can pay tuition. I'd rather point the finger at people with credit card debt they built on a lifestyle they couldn't afford but that's not fair either. We should all try to help each other in these hard times. And "Judge not, that ye be not judged" has been good advice for a long time.