"No sir," I responded, "I've been told I'm quite handsome."
"Why not leave that place you're in then and come be my maitre d' at the Oak Leaf Room?!"
I declined, not yet ready to leave family as my elders aged and required care giving.
Alas the things I passed up along the way...
But there is something that we most certainly must not pass up:
A chance to rectify our lives financially, secure our future as we invest in ourselves and our nation with money, blood, sweat, and tears, and move on with productive lives.
Which brings us back to "the economy, stupid!"
Once a taunting campaign issue, it is now a daily chant going forward from one evening news to another as President Obama, having finished the first one hundred days, enters more deeply into his second, centenary diary as chief executive.
He's told us consistently that we won't soon solve all of the problems, and that we won't even begin to do so without sacrifice and hard work along the way.
A hard road to hoe - yes.
But hoe it we must!
The Reagan and Bushes' eras left us in disarray.
Sorry, but that wine has proven bad - and sticking with my Michelangelo simile to the last - we must throw it out!
So, I will get my burgeoning debt refinanced, and I will be no Scarlet O'Hara in a personal "Gone With the Wind."
I won't put it off till tomorrow.
Let's throw the damn proverbial evil spirits out now - and dance on the grapes of financial perdition if we must to create a new and better vintage of an economy!
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