Monday, June 22, 2009
Oh, to be "bought off"
As much as I hate to quote the odious Tom Friedman, and most of the time I avoid actually reading his column at all, this caught my eye in his latest effort:
"The Islamic Revolution...has used its oil wealth...to buy off huge swaths of the population with cheap housing, government jobs and subsidized food and gasoline."Oh, to have a government which would "buy me off" in such a way.
By the way, Friedman might have added health care to his list of the ways the government "buys off" its people as well.
