TH, you are a hard guy not to like
(perhaps unlike your faithful correspondent
).
Anyway, even when I disagree (often) your posts
are mostly amusing and almost always well written.
At the risk of beating the "dead horse" unrecognizable,
I must revisit the "Martha and Martha types" issue.
I suspect my views stem mainly from three (3)
visceral feelings. First, I have little or no respect for authority. Second, free wheeling, hands-off,
bare knuckles free enterprise appeals to me, and
three (3), I have run several companies, for myself and others. It's dog eat dog and those who prosper are
usually not shrinking violets. Thus, they come across
as arrogant, demanding, unreasonable, egotistical,
and insensitive. In many cases undoubtedly this is all true (certainly so in my case
). I always look at these
people from the other side of the coin, i.e. what they accomplished, not their personality flaws. In my mind
they (Martha types) are heroes and should be treated
accordingly, and a lot (not all) of what they got charged with is capitalism-bashing,
pure and simple.
I expect to see a lot more of this in the future. In fact,
the killing off of and distain for free enterprise is one of
the reasons I quit. Regulars will recall that my attorney
once said that in the eyes of government and some
others, I was "the evil big guy." I found out he was
right. I guess Martha did too.
JG