Monday, December 08, 2008

Those who don't read Will Rogers are condemned to repeat him

I note in passing that Will Rogers wrote in the 1930s that the USA "is going to be the first nation in history to go to the poorhouse in an automobile", and think it rather a shame that as far as I can tell, no currently active journalist remembered to dig up this quote when the CEOs of the auto industry flew to Washington DC to ask for a bailout, in their private jets.
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2 comments:

  1. Matthew12/09/2008 04:16:00 AM

    very good. When they all drove in their hybrids last week was even funnier.

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  2. Alex12/09/2008 05:07:00 AM

    Those who don't repeat history are condemned to study it.

    I don't know why, but I find this intensely funny.

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