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" Joe Williams is a friend of mine and a helluva reporter. He lost his job with Tiger Beat On The Potomac because the Presiding Geniuses, including Mike (Payola) Allen, chickened out like children when the howler monkeys descended. You should read his account of his days in the sales economy. He remains a helluva reporter. Reality struck one afternoon, however, when a customer I&amp;#039;ll call Jan came in for running shoes. Silver-haired, intelligent, and charming, Jan told me she&amp;#039;d recently retired from the U.S. Treasury, where she&amp;#039;d helped oversee the 2008 financial bailout. As I fitted her for shoes and checked her stride, we struck up a conversation about politics, finance, and the fact that not a single Wall Street banker had ended up in jail. Then, Jan hit me with a question I hadn&amp;#039;t considered in the months since I hustled my way into a job I didn&amp;#039;t want, had to have, and had come to accept. &amp;quot;So, Joe,&amp;quot; she asked, &amp;quot;What is it that you really do?&amp;quot; I paused, slightly taken aback. I sell shoes, I told her. That&amp;#039;s my job. &amp;quot;Yes, I understand,&amp;quot; she persisted. &amp;quot;But what do you really do?&amp;quot; Read the whole thing. That&amp;#039;s the future they have planned for us all. And also check out Joe Williams&amp;#039; piece for the politics blog on signing up for Obamacare here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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