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Townhall
Finance...
Thanks
for the Idiots
by Bill Tatro
November 19, 2011
I’m
very proud to announce that I’ve
achieved a special milestone, one hundred candles on my column’s
birthday cake.
When
John Ransom asked me to be a
regular contributor for Townhall Finance, I thought that writing one
column per
week would be a fairly easy task.
After
all, I’ve been in the media,
both radio and television, for over twenty-five years.
I’m
used to deadlines and being
succinct.
Give
the listener, viewer, and now
reader a beginning, middle, and an end.
Tell a story that people can visualize, enjoy,
and want to repeat to
others.
Be
honest, a bit controversial, and
always be grounded in the facts.
This
should be easy, I thought. Bring
it on!
Then
I started to really think about
content. Were there
enough stories? Would
the ideas flow? Could
the events of the world be sufficient
enough to justify that weekly column?
I
broke into a cold sweat.
Would
I let my editor, John Ransom,
down? Would the
readers turn away? Would
I disappoint myself? Question,
questions, questions, and no answers!
Should I take this on, or not?
Then
it happened.
The
Supercommittee was formed in order
to cut the deficit.
That
was idiotic, I thought, and I
said so to my wife.
“Don’t
tell me,” she said. “Tell the
world, write it down, write it in a column,” she added.
As
the days and weeks passed by, other
actions by Obama, Pelosi, Merkel, Sarkozy, Putin, Clinton, and Palin,
seemed to
jump up at me and say, “you have a comment, a thought, tell the world,
write it
down, do a column!”
There
it was, right in front of me, a
whole smorgasbord of things to write about.
I’ll do it!
I told Ransom, “I’m
your boy, count me in!”
With
this writing, it will be 100
columns.
To
this point, it’s been fun,
interesting, and I hope for you, informative.
You may not always agree with my point of
view, but I promise it’ll
always be honest and from my heart.
I
know the next 100, dare I say 1000,
will be as much fun, and probably as interesting, if not more so, as
the first
100.
Thank
you very much for reading me,
now it’s time to blow out the candles.
And
thank goodness for the idiots who
give me idea to write about.
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