So that makes New York the hood…
http://youtu.be/m8sifpUxFwQ
I don’t remember exactly where I saw it, but I recently saw a clip of someone complaining about the wasteful spending of the US government, where one of the examples of waste was how we we are going to waste money restoring the Statue of Liberty. And I’m thinking to myself “yeah, what do we need that thing for…wait a minute, did you just say the Statue of Liberty?”
The Statue of Liberty! Sure, it’s just a huge bronze statue, and it’s technically wasteful to spend money restoring it when we could just… not restore it. But come on, The Statue of Liberty is like–it’s like the hood ornament on the United States of America, which I guess would make New York the hood. Which seems kind of appropriate. But anyway… We have to keep that thing in good condition. Have you ever seen a car where someone has ripped off the hood ornament, and where the owner never bothered to replace it? It looks trashy! You expect a car like that to be rusting out and have bald tires too. Even if it’s a nice car, your imagination adds rust and dirty oil when that hood ornament is missing, with the special plastic hole where it used to be, and the spring safety tension release wire inside… if you’re old enough to have seen a hood ornament you know what I’m talking about.
While “beater car” might be a fairly decent analogy for the current state of financial affairs here in the US, the least we can do is have some pride and basic maintenance. Or maybe we just don’t like that she came from France and welcomes foreigners? Maybe.
December 13th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
I believe the SOL is made from copper. But don’t tell the copper theives that.
December 13th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
s/theives/thieves
December 14th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Oh right, copper. I knew that. (Note the past tense.)