Probably not. In fact, if he travels at all like the president, you’ll hardly know he was here unless you happen to be stuck in traffic when his motorcade whizzes from the airport to the Harvard Club where he will speak.
Since the event is open to the republican faithful and closed to the press we will not hear what Cheney says but I am not sure it matters.
You can be sure that the place will be packed with opportunistic rich white guys in three-thousand dollar suits and that they will try to impress others while building their networks of “friends” in pursuit of the mighty dollar.
You can also be sure that health care, social security, the cost of the war in Iraq, the cost and ineffectiveness of the global war on terror, the stolen election of 2004, the torture of prisoners, the death our soldiers, and the destruction of New Orleans will not come up.
No they’ll probably discuss important things like tax breaks, cheap labor, and the capital gains tax.
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How sad that I have such a cynical view of our captians of industry, the most powerful people of the nation, the followers of GWB.
You can be sure that the place will be packed with opportunistic rich white guys in three-thousand dollar suits and that they will try to impress others while building their networks of “friends”
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Its possible that rich white people are also major driving forces not only in the democratic party, but among the elite of the hard left.
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How sad that I have such a cynical view of our captians of industry, the most powerful people of the nation, the followers of GWB.
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Would it help to think of them as the people who pay the wages and often benefits of a whole lot of otherwise unemployed American workers? If not, I’d try and consider the astronomically gigantic leap in standard of living brought about by their innovations throughout the history of this country. (transportation, energy, communications, health, etc) If centrally controlled command economies were capable of doing the things that free enterprise does, then we’d probably have seen it somewhere by now. Not all captains of industry are criminals.
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