open letter sunday

Dear persons who see the need to explain what I should be learning from the current economic crisis,

You can just stop chastising me for my American greed and inability to control my credit card usage...to you I say... Um yeah...I wasn't the one rolling in a Benz, I was the one in the leased Toyota Corolla, and incidentally...being so happy that your kids are learning the importance of sacrifice only makes sense when said sacrifice involves them having to hop two city buses to use the computer at the city library...not just going upstairs and using the one in dad's freshly redecorated office that was paid for with his bonus from Lehman Bros or Bear Stearns before the shit hit the fan.

best,
France