WORK - huh - yeah, What Is It GOOD For?

If you listened to Hillary Clinton's spin on it, she was just trying to "set the bar high" when she criticized young people at a U. S. Chamber of Commerce meeting in Washington, D. C. At that meeting she told them that young people today "think work is a four-letter word."

Later, Hillary's 26 year old daughter, Chelsea, phoned her to complain about the comments. Chelsea, the daughter of a former president and a current senator, graduated in 2001. It took her until 2003 to get a job as a "consultant" with an immediate six figure salary. She told Senator Clinton, "Mom, I do work hard and my friends work hard."

I was quoted as saying, "Well, isn't that SPECIAL!"

Several days later, Hillary addressed 2,000 graduates in a commencement address at Long Island University. She told them that she apologized to her daughter for her earlier remarks. And then blah, blah blah...

There are so many things WRONG with this story I don't hardly know where to begin.

First, she initially criticized people at a Chamber of Commerce meeting (you know... a group of people who already have jobs) for not being willing to work.

Then, she listens to this specious complaint from the silver spoon girl about how hard she is working at her patronage job.

Then, Hillary makes a public apology. But not to the original people she unfairly labeled as lazy. Or even to the group of young people she was currently addressing. No, she apologized to Chelsea while in front of this audience of young people.

And, the young people that she apologized in front of, were still students - not even members of the work force.

And finally she exhibits compassion by announcing a bogus bill that would help college graduates manage and repay their student loans. Yeahhhhhh! Our hero(ine).

So what have I learned from all of this? Not much.

Except that maybe the next time I shoot from the lip, it doesn't matter what I say. I'll just ignore the original people I offended, try to personalize the experience with an ineffectual familial anecdote, make a mock apology in front of a different group of people and then mumble a vague promise of fresh cookies in the cookie jar. Yeah, that'll work!

I'm still wondering about one thing, though. Work is a four-letter word. Are Hillary and Chelsea having a problem with spelling it or with the math?