In a shocking mirror image, a Democrat running for a Texas House of Representatives seat pulls a “Jeff Gannon” and admits to a prostitute past.
Mirror image because when Gannon was forced out via the Lefty Bloggers, he seemed to fully embrace his gay roots, including being given a regular column by the Washington Blade. By contrast, TX House candidate Tom Malin has completely embraced his Christian roots.
Tom Malin for District 108
I am a human being with a flawed past. I have made mistakes and have made amends; changed my behavior. I stood before my Creator years ago and asked for His forgiveness, grace and redemption. I was born again and feel as if He has granted me a second chance in life and I thank God every day that I am alive and that I am able to dedicate my life to teaching others, enriching lives and acting as a vehicle of empowerment.
Funny, there’s no mention of candidate Malin at Gannongate Central. Why is that? Perhaps it is because the tactics of the radical gay “outers” have come home to roost with their own kind? Double standards by the Radical Lefties? Never!
Oh, I almost forgot…
Tom’s success as an entrepreneur has included being a Mary Kay Independent Senior Sales Director and Pink Cadillac Driver.
Tom was recognized as one of the top recruiters and sellers with Mary Kay and one of only 3 men to ever earn the use of the highly coveted Pink Cadillac.
And even though AmericaBlog had every piece of Gannon’s anatomy all over the Web for weeks, they why don’t they have all the dirt on Tom Malin’s (aka Todd Sharpe) escorting webpages?? (More info on that can be found at PinkDome).
Um….$500 an hour was his rate?!? Was he a prostitute or a lawyer?!?
What I find most amusing is that the results of this very micro version of a double-blinded clinical study seem to suggest that outed gay Republicans run to the Left (at least a bit!)….and outed gay Democrats run to God. What does John Aravosis think of this??
(Hat tip to V the K @ Caption This for reminding me of this story. I actually heard this on Friday on Rush’s radio show, but it slipped my mind until VdaK emailed this weekend!)
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
It will be a cold day in hell, Bruce, when John Aravosis plays fair.
He’s still in denial that Iran persecutes gays.
Today, he hit a new low even for Americablog. Aravosis has finally decided he’s unhappy with Muslim violence over the Danish cartoons. He’s finally decided Islamic fundamentalists are nuts. BUT he’s also decided that Muslim violence in the streets is no worse than the American religious right’s “violence” of words and legislation. He writes that the “violence” of the American religious right “hurts” just as many people as the Muslims’ violence.
When did “Jeff Gannon” admit being a gay prostitute? And when did Tom Malin pretend to be a journalist? And how did you miss Jeff Gannon’s claim to be born again?
UMMMM…his campaign bio states –
New York University- Graduate Studies in Musical Theatre
Who even knew there was such a discipline, but I’m betting he was popular with the other boys in the department
Waaaaait a minute here. If outing Gannon was bad, how can outing Malin be good?
Prostitution/Mary Kay…..same difference.
and an FYI, don’t ever go to a Mary Kay party with a drag queen.
Gannon’s activities were inimical to our well-being (a “patriot” must be loyal to the Constitution, not a particular party). Your comments don’t show how Malin poses a problem–I wouldn’t vote for a born-again, but I wouldn’t vote for a Gannon, either. A pox on both of them.
Hasn’t Gannon said that he’s bisexual, and tried to distance himself from his past by saying he has found religion? I’m not sure if this is embracing his gay roots.
There’s a big difference between a candidate for a state house and a reporter for the White House press corps, although I don’t think liberals should have focused on his escort past, they should have focused on his lack of credentials.
I guess this is ‘amusing’ to some people, but personally I don’t really see a similarity.
prostitute, lawyer is there a difference?
For starters, Jim Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) never was a prostitute per se – he merely ran a blog that advertised such things. (I mean, who could ever forget closet case Chris Matthews giggling over Gannon’s blog entitled “HotMilitaryStuds.com?” Note to Chris – time for you and Anderson Cooper to come out, big time.)
THIS doofus, on the other hand, tried to pull the wool over Dallas voters’ eyes by not even admitting what he did in the past. And correct me if I’m wrong, but Texas law notwithstanding, what he engaged in could correctly be termed as “solicitation.” And I wonder what the statute of limitations for such a crime (yes, CRIME) is in my home state.
I could also make a comment about his Mary Kay career, the fact he was off Broadway (probably in Times Square making a fast buck, no doubt) and his e-mail address as “nycbottom,” but it would be WAY too easy.
In fact, so was he….
Regards,
Peter Hughes
A prostitute? Sounds like an enhancement for a lib’s resume.
By contrast, TX House candidate Tom Malin has completely embraced his Christian roots.
Then again….
The left doesn’t want THAT in their midst. They’ll cut him off at the knees faster than they would an Iraq Vet (e.g. Paul Hackett). They need a Christian amongst them like they need another high profile funeral or Bush “scandal”.
Thanks for the tip, Bruce. I kind knew how the other side would respond to yet another revelation of their double standard: Denial that they had ever attacked Jeff Gannon for being a prostitute (complete bullsh*t) or trying to bring up irrelevant differences (“you see, Gannon was a journalist, Malin’s a politician, it’s totally different”) to justify why it was okay to give Malin a pass.
Second, being a prostitute is actually a requirement for being a politician of either party today, but particularly valuable for Democrats. Harry Reid wakes up and finds $60K left on the dresser by Jack Abramoff’s clients fairly regularly. John Kerry and Chuck Schumer wipe off their lips after servicing NARAL and People for the American Way. Move-On going to Hillary and warning, “Is George Soros gonna have to choke a bitch?”
On the subject matter of the post:
Odd, I had not been led to believe that Malik, unlike Gannon/Guckert worked for a front “news” organization with close ties to the Texas Republican party, or that he had been given what appears to be extraordinary access to the White House for a non-government employee.
On the other hand, Malik, if his candidacy for the Democratic nomination proceeds, will have to present himself to the voters in a primary election and let them decide whether they want him to be their candidate. In what election did Gannon/Guckert present himself to the voters?
Sorry, the two cases are not symmetrical.
Did I call that one or what?
VdaK, I think you called it, #12 performed like a circus chimp on the spin act.
In the wannabe Democrat Party candidate Malin’s defense/explanation website, he offers “this race isn’t about me, personally…” it’s about issues. I guess we’d hear the same thing from any unconvicted felon making a run for Congress –and what Malin recultantly agreed to doing is a felony… even in SF, WeHo, SoHo, A2 or NYC… he’s just an unconvicted felon.
As a resident of Dallas who is acquainted with Mr. Malin and with some members of the Stonewall Democrats, Mr. Malins fall from grace was not a big surprise. It is quite obvious that the whistle blower was not getting the desired effect with his whisper campaign, that he finally called one of the political columnists at the Dallas Morning News, and gave them the needed dirt for their expose. To quote the DMN
‘All the “Todd Sharpe” Web sites are now defunct. The Dallas Morning News found archived versions online after receiving a tip this week that Mr. Malin might have worked in the sex industry.
The tipster, a fellow gay Democrat who knew the candidate, said he had heard rumors about Mr. Malin’s past but had no direct knowledge. He said he feared that if Mr. Malin won a primary race next month and the rumors turned out to be true, their political party would be embarrassed. The tipster asked not to be identified because he didn’t want to be dragged into a political fight. ”
The Dallas County Democratic Party because of recent demographic changes (lots of Katrina transplants) is convinced that they will carry Dallas County in all thier races in 2006 and take back the county from Republican domination. They smell victory and are going to great lengths to make sure that they win. District 108 is an interesting intersection of an affluent Silk Stockings Republican District, with an urban affluent area, and then add an urban mix that is being displaced by gentrification. I would say that a Libertarian Streak runs through the district, but I can assure you that any expression of Libertarian ideas, makes the gay lefties of the Stonewall democrats go nuts.
One more time , the Cindy Sheehan wing of the Democratic Party shows their true colors.
#14 — To be fair, figuring out how rag is going to be respond is about as hard as figuring out the plot-twist of an old Three’s Company episode.
-For starters, Jim Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) never was a prostitute per se – he merely ran a blog that advertised such things.-
The pictures he posted of himself on websites seemed to be selling some parts of himself, even if he didn’t show his face in most of them. And those pictures were far more graphic than the links GP linked to for Malin.
-Thanks for the tip, Bruce. I kind knew how the other side would respond to yet another revelation of their double standard: –
Another double standard might be why people were outraged about this happening to Gannon and are gloating that this happened to Malin. Malin wasn’t involved with outing Gannon. All Malin is doing is running for office. Yet we’re supposed to be gleeful about his past being dug up because of what happened to Jeff Gannon.
In Texas a few years ago a conservative Republican state house candidate was derailed in his primary when photos were released which showed him dressed in his wife’s clothes. Rumor had it that other Republicans made these photos available because they didn’t want him to win the primary.
Neither side is innocent of tactics. I guess the main difference is that with Malin we’re supposed to be amused, and with Gannon we’re supposed to weep for him.
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NYU does have a graduate program in Musical Theater. It’s comprehensive, difficult, and taught by some of the leading lyricists and composers on Broadway. One of my collaborators just finished it. And he’s 68.
#16 or a reaction to anything W does by TeddyK, or a speech by George Soros, or a publicity stunt by Cindy Sheehan, or next GayLeft agenda item du jour.
For starters, Jim Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) never was a prostitute per se – he merely ran a blog that advertised such things.
So it sounds like you’re saying that Gannon/Guckert was a pimp.
Nah –the difference between these 2 people is – this man has come forward and explained his past. We ( the American People) still have NO idea why Jeff gannnon was at the White House over 200 times without the proper security clearances. No Explanation, NOTHING! Who was he seeing? Why was he there? Who was he doing? Tom Malin has NEVER been in the White House….that’s the WORLD of Difference. Now EXPLAIN THAT AWAY PLEASE!
“For starters, Jim Guckert (aka Jeff Gannon) never was a prostitute per se – he merely ran a blog that advertised such things.”
Guckert was an “escort” but he never admitted it, refused to discuss it. He said that he gave up his life of sin when he found Jesus — the usual born-again argument. (He also argues that sexual orientation is nobody’s business.) Malin was outed and didn’t deny that he worked as an escort/prostitute. He also claims to be the apple of Jesus’ eye now. As far as I know, he has never denied being gay or made crackpot claims about being bisexual.
One thing that seems to be true about radical leftists and right wingers alike is a kind of puritanical rhetoric that may or may not disguise their own activities. Although I iplace myself firmly on the left, I’ve been long aware of the puritanism among extremists. When I was first involved in the, um, old New Left, I encountered that, espeically regarding homosexuals, constantly.
I found Americablog’s treatment of the Gannon thing annoying for that reason. They concentrated on the fact that he was a whore, not so much on the fact that he was totally uneducated as a journalist. The same thing emerged with the Andrew Sullivan sacandal. People focused on his slutty behavior when the real issue was his preaching a philosophy that he couldn’t uphold himself — which is a good reason to stop and question the philosophy not to get exercised about the usually slutty behavior of people.
Are lefties ever more hilarious than when you call them on their hypocrisy? (And being tipped on a day when my blog is on fire is a bonus).
#6 – “Gannon’s activities were inimical to our well-being (a “patriot” must be loyal to the Constitution…”
That’s an exceedingly strange statement. What did Gannon ever do, as a journalist, that was inimical to the Constitution?
I do seem to recall that Gannon reported fully and accurately what the White House said about issue XYZ. While good journalism should not stop there, it’s quite a bit more-and-better than what the current posse of hateful, spiteful, incompetent so-called “journalists” in the White House press corp can bring themselves to do.
Here’s what I’d want to know: In what sense does Malin mean all his born-again statements?
Is he really born again, and if so, does that mean he is now also “ex-gay”? Or is he “gay and Christian”?
Or is he not born again at all, and just being cynical?
I think what the lefties are trying to do is move the focus off the fact that they viciously attacked Gannon for the same thing they give Malin a pass for by trying to focus on the irrelevant distinction that Gannon is a third rate journalist and Malin is a third rate politician.
V the K, if you actually responded to some of the comments in this thread, instead of just telling people what lefties are doing, it might help the discussion. Otherwise you’re just judging people on what you assume they think. It almost seems like you’re in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3,000, commenting from far away on the thread.
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Is he really born again, and if so, does that mean he is now also “ex-gay”? Or is he “gay and Christian”?-
His site says that he supports equality for everyone, so he probably isn’t ex-gay. Or if he is he is not tied to the main ex-gay groups.
I still have to have more respect for him than Gannon. Gannon decried people outing him, yet he now writes for a newspaper chain which (if I remember correctly) supports outing. Gannon also wrote strange articles while in his pre-outing days that featured comments like, “Kerry might be the first gay president”.
People who are so gleeful about what happened with Malin seem to only be using him as a pawn because they’re upset about Gannon. If a Democratic candidate outed another candidate’s past as a gay escort, I wonder how many people here would be decrying the hypocrisy and homophobia of Democrats.
Carl, I don’t think Gannon decried people outing him per se, so much as he may have decried the lunacy of their accusations (sex with Cheney, etc.) and the sheer unimportance or irrelevancy of the whole brouhaha.
“… Gannon wrote strange articles while in his pre-outing days that featured comments like, “Kerry might be the first gay president”. ”
That would have to be an intentional play on Bill Clinton’s famous comment to an African-American audience, “I’m the first Black President”. As such, I don’t find it strange.
Those are the biggest hamstrings I’ve ever seen. I’m wondering how many leg curls he had to do to get that way.
#27 Carl — February 20, 2006 @ 1:30 pm – February 20, 2006
Gannon decried people outing him, yet he now writes for a newspaper chain which (if I remember correctly) supports outing.
Which chain is that? I had read that he was writing columns for Window Media, which publishes Southern Voice, Washington Blade, NY Blade, among others, but I hadn’t read that they particularly supported outing. Are you referring to another chain?
Interesting debate…. I have to say I am a bit more disturbed by the “born again” thing than the “prostitute” thing….
Was Malin running for office as a gay man? Or is the scandal that he was “gay-for-pay”? And is now repentant?
Who cares? Right now, he’s a Democratic candidate with sex appeal. That’s what we should be worrying about.
Speaking of double standards, isn’t it passingly curious that when conservatives and Republicans call for better border control, or wire tapping suspected Islamic terrorists… we get called racists and xenophobes. BUT when the media and democrats make an issue out of an A-Rab company buying the company that loads/unloads container ships… suddenly it’s a national security issue that has nothing to do with prejudice or xenophobia?
#34 – Sex appeal? Ugh. Well, let me correct that… “Different strokes”…
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Which chain is that? I had read that he was writing columns for Window Media, which publishes Southern Voice, Washington Blade, NY Blade, among others, but I hadn’t read that they particularly supported outing. Are you referring to another chain? –
I think that was Window Media. I remember something about Crain or someone else at the paper supporting outing, and I think someone at GP may have even had a very unhappy article responding to this.
Interesting that none of this was mentioned when it’s time to try to make Gannon look sympathetic.
Oh, come on. He might be despicable, you’ve gotta admit he’s cute. Have you seen his pics on the archived escort pages? Hot!
So is he an ex-gay or something? Says he’s found religion or some crap like that.
V, that argument isn’t fair and you know it.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/2/19/114128.shtml
OK Hank, then explain it to me: Why is it racist to subject Islamic males to extra scrutiny at the airport, but not racist to get in a hysterical tizzy because ‘Rabs are going to own a company that loads and unloads ships at a seaport?
It’s like the impeachment comments made by Republicans about Clinton. If Republicans stood by them today, Bush and Cheney would have been impeached by now. Same deal with Cheney and the shooting vs. Teddy Kennedy and Chappaquiddick.
Both sides are equally guilty of the hypocrisy. Try a mad libs game: Take either party’s statements about a political opponent and replace the opponent’s name with that of an ally in a compromising position and you’ll sound like you switched parties.
Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal, secular, theocon, neocon, Christian Fundagelical or Islamic Jihadi: for all your vaunted statements, whited walls you were and are. Gang, that’s most of this world. And even though I try not to be one of you, I’m afraid I still am.
And with the money-changers and business interests in charge of much of Christianity, especially in this country, a far more thorough cleansing of the Temple is needed over the one done 2000 years ago.
Never forget the rape of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast by a government too into itself to provide aid to those in need on a timely basis. That is one thing I truly hold against Bush and company, that they allowed our nation to look like a charity case before the world. A nation that can’t or won’t take care of those in extremis cannot long survive as a great nation and is in no way a Christian one.
#37 – It would be hard for anyone to have mentioned something you think should have been mentioned, Carl, when the reference (in #37) has gotten as vague and twisting and turning as that.
Please spell it out. What, precisely, about Gannon should anyone have remembered or mentioned earlier in this thread? And if you would like to refer to some earlier GP post – what post? (please link it) (they have a Search facility in the left-side column)
#41 – “It’s like the impeachment comments made by Republicans about Clinton. If Republicans stood by them today, Bush and Cheney would have been impeached by now”
Really? Please justify that statement. I.e., explain what you mean.
As far as I can know, Cheney hasn’t intentionally lied under oath to obstruct justice. Do you know something new/different?
#38 – I’ve only seen the 1 pic that GP included with the post. To my eye, he looks cloying and vacuous there. (And I don’t have anything to offset or contradict it.)
Because the Port issue is not about racisim, loading and unloading ships, or republicans and democrats. It IS about National Security.
“Hysterical tizzy” Please.
Slightly off topic… Taking a step back…
Gannon, Cheney’s hunting accident, Katrina, “Bush lied!!!”, Plamegate, Rather’s forged documents, many others… so many big, hysterical, breathless liberal media controversies (against the Administration) have turned out to be nothing as more facts came in. One after another after another…
Don’t these people ever stop, reflect or learn? I mean, when they’ve been wrong 13 or whatever times in a row… wouldn’t you?
There is one potential serious scandal going unreported this minute. Namely: Why is the Bush Administration trying to cover up Able Danger?
That the Clinton Administration would want to cover up Able Danger, I can understand. (It happened on their watch. It more or less predicted 9-11 and some of the people involved, before 9-11. Sandy Berger destruction of National Archive documents, anyone?)
But what has the Bush Administration got to lose from Able Danger coming out? Why are they trying to prevent it? You’d think the doughty Washington press corps might want to get their shoes dirty, uncovering something real, like that. As opposed to Cheney’s bird pellet, Gannon or whatever.
#40 V the K — February 20, 2006 @ 8:36 pm – February 20, 2006
…but not racist to get in a hysterical tizzy because ‘Rabs are going to own a company that loads and unloads ships at a seaport?
From what I have read, the Dubai company is not going to load or unload ships at any seaport. It is going to manage operations at the seaport. I’m not sure why the ports need a company to manage operations there, and why the ports couldn’t set up their own management operations. But I do know that the US government has (or has had) contracts with several US companies to manage operations at the National Labs and the nuclear weapons development facilities. I don’t know why the US government can’t manage things on its own. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
-So is he an ex-gay or something? Says he’s found religion or some crap like that.-
Many gays are religious, especially in Texas. Dallas has that big gay church.
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Please spell it out. What, precisely, about Gannon should anyone have remembered or mentioned earlier in this thread?-
In this article, Crain outs several politicians.
http://washingtonblade.com/2005/12-2/view/editorial/cunningham.cfm
Gannon has criticized those who out people, yet he has no problem working for Crain. I could be wrong, but I thought there was an article at GP at some point about Crain and his views on outing. It just seems like this big puff piece about poor Jeff Gannon vs. terrible, awful Malin doesn’t really go in to all the twists and contradictions of Gannon. GP says that Gannon has fully embraced his gay roots and criticizes Malin for embracing Christianity, as if Malin had somehow claimed he found Jesus only after he was outed (I think his site was up before he was outed as an ex-escort), and as if Gannon was now openly gay (he claims he’s bi or that his orientation isn’t an issue) or wasn’t using religion (Gannon also said he has found religion).
The article paints a picture of Gannon that doesn’t really seem to match anything from Gannon, apparently because we need to view Gannon as wonderful and Malin as horrible. It seems like a huge contortion to me. Apparently Malin’s major sin is not his past, but his happening to be a Democrat or not being Jeff Gannon.
So you think GP should have been hard on Gannon and was trying to do a backhanded puff piece on Gannon? (Asking to check my understanding)
I have to say, we must be reading 2 different posts because I don’t find that in GP’s piece. But, whatever.
(#49 cont.) Just for starters, notice the title of the piece: “The Democrats’ Jeff Gannon”.
That wording, in itself, suggests being a Jeff Gannon is a bad thing.
The piece goes on to analyze Gannon and Malin as exactly corresponding mirror images of one another, putting both men in a negative light.
Finally, the key rhetorical focus is on lefty bloggers’ hypocrisy (for how they handled one vs. the other). Again, no Gannon puff piece.
-So you think GP should have been hard on Gannon and was trying to do a backhanded puff piece on Gannon? (Asking to check my understanding)-
I think that GP was trying to make Gannon sympathetic by comparing him to Malin – Malin the gay liberal ex-escort who goes to Christianity vs. Gannon the conservative who supposedly becomes more supportive of homosexuals after he is out. It’s some kind of a good conservative vs. bad liberal stretch, I guess, but I just have to wonder why Gannon neds to be compared to Malin. The article to me also implies that it’s somehow bad or wrong for Malin to have embraced Christianity, and says this is a “mirror image” of Gannon, when Gannon has mentioned his newfound religious beliefs in interviews. Gannon has also never said he’s gay, which this article doesn’t mention. The article paints a picture of Gannon that does not necessarily gibe with what Gannon has said.
#51
Malin the gay liberal ex-escort who goes to Christianity vs. Gannon the conservative who supposedly becomes more supportive of homosexuals after he is out.
Just to remind you, this (regarding Gannon/Guckert) is not unusual. If you don’t remember the case of Robert Bauman, the “married, with children” and viciously anti-gay Republican Representative from the eastern shor of Maryland, who, in 1980, resigned from his seat after being discovered having homosexual “dalliances,” do a google search. Initially, he claimed that his homosexual “dalliances” were the result of alcoholism. Later, he sought the support of gay people, professing support on pro-gay issues.
Regarding Bauman’s pleas, I might have been born at night, but not last night.
As far as I was concerned at the time–and I still am–good riddance to bad rubbish.
V the K #11 and Calarato #24
I have too much pride in my journalism degree to let you guys call Guckert/Gannon a “journalist”. And I still don’t understand how he was able to get a White House press pass.
Then what do you think of the current White House press corp? I call him a journalist only relative to them. They can’t even bring themselves to accurately state what the White House has said about X. (Which is by NO means the end of their duties; but, the beginning.) Gannon could at least do that.
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or that he had been given what appears to be extraordinary access to the White House for a non-government employee.
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#21
We ( the American People) still have NO idea why Jeff gannnon was at the White House over 200 times without the proper security clearances….Now EXPLAIN THAT AWAY PLEASE!
Well, you had to be paying attention. If not, you could at least get off your lazy ass, get away from the liberal lying points sights and do a Google search.
He got a daily press pass to the briefings by supplying his REAL name, birthdate and SSN, etc. He never got a permanent pass, which requires an FBI background check, and he didn’t get that because you have to have a pass from the Senate press gallery.
#41
Never forget the rape of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast by a government too into itself to provide aid to those in need on a timely basis. That is one thing I truly hold against Bush and company, that they allowed our nation to look like a charity case before the world.
Actually, it was the liberals who had been raping New Orleans and the state of Louisiana long before Katrina got there. Not only that, but they’ve allowed the nation to look like a charity case long before Katrina as well.
How about the fact that everything Big Media reported about New Orleans, other than the fact that a major hurricane hit there, was a damnable lie, worse than Rather-gate? Is that what we should forget instead?
Since we don’t want America looking like a “charity case”, how about the people rebuild New Orleans their own damn selves instead of worrying where the USPS is going to deliver their checks? New Orleans wasn’t built by the federal government, why the hell should it rebuild it? Since you’re so fucking worried about looking like a “charity case”, it’s my guess that you’ll go along with that, right?
#47
I don’t know why the US government can’t manage things on its own. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.
Because we’re not a socialist country where the government has to manage everything. I thought you might know the difference between America and the Fatherland.
BTW, you haven’t mentioned your living in Germany for a while. You’re long over due.