A little perspective please

November 5, 2007

Lifted from the Wall Street Journal‘s daily “Opinion Journal”:

Wannabe Pundits
OK, see if you can guess the topic of a column by Lee Benson of Salt Lake City’s Deseret Morning News. It begins as follows:

The financial news from the front–the president wants another $196 billion for wars that have already cost $600 billion–is bleak.

The financial news from the campaign trail–where candidates are going to spend $1 billion trying to become president–is depressing.

Here in Utah, the financial news from the private school voucher fight–where people on both sides have already spent $9 million (how about settling it with a coin-flip and give the money to the kids?)–is astonishing.

Give up? Here’s the next sentence:

But if you want financial news you can really grind your teeth over you have to move into the world of Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod, who just this week told the New York Yankees he doesn’t want the $25 million they’re offering him to play baseball for them next season.

Read the full column here.

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