The Weak
Get Going Too
It wasn't Vince Lombardi
or Ronald Reagan who came up with that saying: When the going gets
tough, the tough get going. It was Joseph P. Kennedy,
patriarch of the largest, most famous Democrat family.
You can't fault anyone
for emulating Papa Joe's philosophy unless, like the current
administration, things are twisted around and taken way
too far; unless the script is flipped and they get going to avoid
getting tough. Traveling Salesman Syndrome is what it
shall be called.
Being tough means
standing your ground, confronting problems and digging in to fight
them into oblivion -- like soldiers in a wartime foxhole, linemen
during a goal line stand or presidents who defend their principles
over their popularity.
Have you heard the latest
traveling salesman jokes?
This traveling salesman
goes to Columbus to visit a municipal account that just hired 25
employees to help sell the salesman's new product line. As he
bragged about the $1.25 million he freed up to "create" those jobs,
two jumbo jets were being refueled for the $36,000 per hour (each)
job of flying him back to the home office.
Not funny enough?
Here's another one:
This traveling saleswoman
goes to Geneva to meet with an important Russian
contact. She gives the guy a gag Easy Button mislabeled
as a Difficult Button. The laughs created by this
practical joke will greatly help to repair and solidify
Russian-American friendship.
Not cracked up
yet? Here's a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction reverse joke
about traveling
American salesmen:
Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner told the House Ways and Means Committee
that President Obama will propose legislation to limit U.S.
companies' ability to shelter foreign earnings from taxation in the
U.S. He also said that the administration will try to limit
wealthy Americans' ability to use tax havens to avoid taxation.
Geithner
did not immediately
provide details.
Get it? A
tax cheat fails to immediately provide details.
Well, at least some of
you get it. And the rest of you would probably laugh too if
the jokes were being told by David Letterman, Stephen Colbert or Al
Franken.
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