“[F]ormer chief executive of AT&T, Ed Whitacre, was ‘probably the most exploited worker in American history’ since he received only a $158 million pay package rather than the ‘billions’ he deserved for his success in growing Southwestern Bell.”
Phil Gramm speaking on behalf of John McCain as reported by Frank Rich.
But the rest of us are a “nation of whiners” according to Gramm, rumored to be McCain’s odds-on-favorite to be Secretary of Treasury.
“On issues of economics and … family values, there’s nobody that I know that’s stronger,” Mr. McCain has said of Gramm.
That says more about who McCain knows than it does about Phil Gramm.