When keeping quiet may be just the right thing to do

Andrew Young


The article i found was from the New York Times. It is about a man, Lawrence B Lindsey losing his job as Director of the National Economic council and another man, Lawrence H. Summers, who is taking the role. The one difference in these two men is that one will keep his mouth shut in politics and the other, well he lost his job due to his mouth. Mr. Lindsey lost his job for criticizing the war in Iraq back when George W. Bush was still president stating that the economy does not need more debt with the 200 trillion it would take for the war to go through. That freedom of speech, and backing his own right led to him losing his job. The other man, Mr. Summers, now the Director was asked the same question, and chose to keep shut. This is an act of social control because what its showing is even if you are in a high position or job where your opinion is asked for and needed in economic bad times, you still need to be following what the head man, the president is doing or you will be replaced. So if you were to disagree with anything happening in the country your job, your freedom , your life, is on the line. Mr. Lindsey choose to speak his mind and lost his high job, but Mr. Summers will conform with whats going on and will not speak his mind. Even though in past places, Mr. Summers was let go from a presidency job at Harvard University for speaking out about gender differences. So both men have lost their jobs due to there act of freedom of speech and one has conformed to the social control that the government has on these individuals. Your either with us or your gone.