Peggy Moron:Noonan
pens this: (emp add)
... Americans weren't born to be accountants. It's not in our DNA! We're supposed to be building the Empire State Building. We were meant—to be romantic about it, and why not—to be a pioneer people, to push on, invent electricity, shoot the bear, bootleg the beer, write the novel, create, reform and modernize great industries. We weren't meant to be neat and tidy record keepers.
QUESTION: What American invented electricity? Was it Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, or someone else?
posted by Quiddity at 10/11/2010 08:45:00 PM
That would be the real father of our country, Ben Franklin and his pal Jesus Christ, who put the lightning in the sky for Ben to find. I'm sure it's all there in Conservapedia.
How do you build the Empire State Building without financial accounting? How do you "create, reform and modernize great industries" without accountants making sure that those great industries can make payroll?
Shooting bears, bootlegging beer and writing novels probably require no accounting.
Without the invention of electricity, Al Gore would have never invented the internet.
