AMERICAN KNOW-HOW?

No.  It’s “nohow”—everywhere, and everyhow.  The question is whether the problems are caused by incompetence or  dishonesty.    If it’s incompetence, that could be traced to the long and highly documented  failure of the educational  system in United States, from kindergarten through high school  through college and university.  If it’s dishonesty, well—dishonesty is  the American Way of Life.

What don’t we cheat at?  How many religious tax-havens are there?   Could the rich be rich                   if they didn’t have lots of lawyers?

And politics?  In 1960 it was the Democratic vote-buying in  Chicago that beat Richard Nixon.   Was anybody satisfied with the Warren Commission’s report on the Kennedy assassination?  Was the 1968 Democratic convention rigged?   How did George W. Bush “win” Florida? 

  

Do you know anybody who cheats  on his or her income tax returns?  Do you know anybody who doesn’t?

Do college basketball coaches know who pays their players?  Of course they do.  They –or  their assistants in charge of that part of  every college’s athletics  “program”—know it:  organize and operate it.

Why can the rich get cocaine so easily?

  

How can the state of Arizona make such a botch of a primary election?  Would anybody be dumb enough to suspect  that  this was just  a “human error” or a “mechanical malfunction”?

I will believe in American political honesty—in the ability of  America to hold an honest election—when Robert  Kennedy is NOT murdered and Hubert Humphrey is NOT the Democratic party’s presidential candidate, and when Al Gore is sworn in as President of the United States instead of George W. Bush.  And when Hilary Clinton comes clean about how much she got from the big banks—and what she told them.

                                                                                         Bert Hornback