marichiko

It was Bush and the Republicans who cut funding for maintaining this country's infra-structure in favor of going over and destroying the infra-structure of Iraq and giving Halliburten a pie in the sky contract to rebuild a foreign country while ours goes to hell.

If you own ANYTHING you need to maintain it. That's common sense, not Monday morning quarterbacking.

When I was in college I needed to get a ride out to Kentucky to visit my Dad one spring break. I looked at the university ride finder's board and there was a kid going to Virginia who needed someone to share driving and gas. He had a nice little red sports car that he had loaded the trunk down with cases of Coors. Typical frat rat. Well, I figured I could endure him for the 16 hours it would take to get to Lexington.

When it came my turn to drive, I noticed that the red oil check light kept flashing on. I pointed this out to him, and he said, "Ah, it always does that. Don't pay it any mind." I thought he should at least check the oil level when we stopped for gas, but he was more concerned about re-arranging his precious stash of Coors which he apparently intended to sell for some vast profit to ignorant hillbilly's in VA who didn't know about beer. Whatever.

Well, sure enough, the engine seized up completely around St. Louis, MO. You can only drive a car for so far with no oil in the engine and that little red car didn't have a drop of oil in it. My dad wired me the money for a plane ticket on into Lexington and the last I saw of the frat rat, he was sadly drinking his Coors and watching the tow truck driver haul his car off for either a new engine or a trip to the junkyard.

Somehow, I can imagine W. pulling the same trick in his younger days.