The Easy Button

[Demeter]

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/04/con06144.html


A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Frank J. Saccone, Jr.

It's easy isn't it? When you're born into a family whose fortune was made evading our embargo on trading with Germany during WWII.

It's easy isn't it?

Just push the "Easy" button and suddenly you're in an Ivy League college. And then receive a northeast education, run in the Kennebunkport circles, and call yourself a Texan cowboy.

So easy isn't it?

And then, businesses are handed to you for the smallest of investments, you fail miserably, and still cash in on millions of dollars. Some subsidized by taxpayers.

It's easy isn't it?

Just push the "Easy" button and your patriotism is honed in the National Guard versus the jungles of Viet Nam.

Easy isn't it?

Hell, you needn't even show up and the records disappear.

So easy when one has that "Easy" button.

It's easy to become a flaming alcoholic and drug abuser and suddenly be born again. Just push the "Easy" button and let your handlers hand you the keys to the Texas Governor's mansion. But then, after all, you were and are entitled, yes?

So easy when you have that "Easy" button.

Just push it, steal a few thousand votes, eliminate the one man one vote democratic process, and then you're the president.

So easy isn't it?

Just push that big red button, play the fear factor, sit idly by as our country is attacked, then attack our constitution. The "Easy" button allows you to invade another nation on completely false pretenses. It allows you to out a CIA agent and avoid treason. It allows you to keep your fingers on yet another button: the nuke version. And that scares the beejeebers out of me.

The "Easy" button got you everywhere you've gone. Monied connections, ruthless advisors, and a disdain for our constitutional republic.

I have no "Easy" button, and have earned everything in my life. I do not have "messianic" tendencies. Yet my country is on the edge of both a domestic and international armageddon.

While prayer is not a part of my life, I do hope that your "Easy" button rusts into the off position. Before it's too late for another 2,500 American soldiers. And tens of thousands of civilians.

It's too easy, isn't it, George?

Frank J. Saccone, Jr.
Macedon, NY.

[bluerum]

1. Well I will be shrubbed. Macedon. My brother used to live there.

I always thought it was a shrub town cause they were shrubbies. They still may be for all I know.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. I made a picture for it...anyone know who I can email it

to?

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Well, I just e-mailed it to a friend of mine who I know will

appreciate it. Thanks!

:hi:

[LearnedHand]

4. Nice. Clever. k&r.