One should be leery
What is one to do when the proverbial “bad hair day” strikes with a vengeance. The kind of day where you put on a hat, but the hair just sticks out in all directions, and no amount of time in front of a mirror remedies things. Our new government seems to be caught in such a vortex, helped along by a German vacuum cleaner salesman.
Today, a honorable minister recounted to the press (and this new government doesn’t do that every day) that he had advised his father to be leery. The father figure, who also was once an honorable minister, had taken up with “company” that a mother would say “Avoid like the plague”. Of course, how often does Dad listen to Son in this world? And if the honorable minister (take your pick) used to “work” for a firm that the “company” also lobbied for, well that’s just chance. It’s a big world, involving a small number of people who work for industry (that later sell products to his ministry). As for the leery character; more will follow. Any day now. If he can get access to a few documents that were left behind in the apartment. And if the insulting handcuffs are removed.
You see, this German vacuum salesman seems to know everybody that thinks they are anybody. He also has far too much money, in envelopes, and feels forced to share with any of his friends that have fallen on hard times. When one friend’s yard sale is cancelled, and times are tight, an envelope or three can ease the pain.
I’m so confused. Sometimes (oft times) our political figures seem like people caught in a really low budget mini-series on one of those cable channels. Perhaps it comes from the “entitlement clause” that says politicians don’t have to follow the same rules as the rest of us. Perhaps it’s just a genetic flaw.
When someone can’t really remember that a certain sum of money was passed along but still pay taxes on it, that’s noble behavior. When the amount is equivalent to half the amount I’ll earn in my WHOLE LIFETIME, and it is seen as “chump change”, I feel devalued. So far, in two days of non-testimony, the vacuum salesman has managed to involve at least three very high ranked officials in schemes that aren’t particularly legal or moral in any of the countries I’d care to visit. The “good stuff” hasn’t been talked about yet. I can’t wait for the next episode.
