Chuck Todd and Sacrifice

Last night Chuck Todd asked Obama about not asking people to sacrifice more for the good of the country getting back on it's feet; and now everybody from Matt Yglesias to Rush Limbaugh have been howling re: everybody's already sacrificing, ie losing their jobs.

But when I think of "sacrifice," I think of WILLFUL sacrifice - as in if 500,000 lost their jobs last month, I guarantee you none of them did it willfully. Nobody willfully sacrificed their own jobs or homes for the good of the country. In fact, if you asked the average American right now if they'd rather lose their own job and therefore help the country sloooooooowly creep back to economic recovery somewhere in 2010 or if they'd like $25 million, which may or may not retard the progress of recovery, I guarantee you 100% of those people will say the $25M. Chuck Todd's question, to me, kinda reeked of that hollow emotionalism and "selflessness" that people who scream about spending/the debt we're giving our children like to portray when the camera's on. As in, nobody's really gonna do it themselves if they don't have to. So I feel like Chuck Todd, whom I usually like and is really good at his job, pretty much wasted his and our time with a fairly nonsense question.

But hey, maybe I'm wrong.

ALSO: the dude that pushed Obama with his "why'd you wait 2 days" question and complimented Andrew Cuomo while doing so. I'm assuming the dude isn't in love with Obama, which makes me think he might be a conservative (altho I have not bothered checking this so I could be wrong.) Sounds to me like he was saying something nice about someone from New York. Which includes New York City. You know, the "not real" part of America. I'd hate to have your readers get trapped into thinking nice things about a part of the country that does evil things like found amazing universities, and corridors of commerce and culture and, you know, the greatest democracy alive on the planet. Just saying.