First you fail as a professional football player. That gets you enough fame to fail miserably as a Congressional representative. And that leads to this:
Rep. Heath Shuler will go to work for Duke Energy, heading its federal affairs team in Washington once his term ends in January.
Duke said Shuler, a three-term Democrat who represents North Carolina’s 15 westernmost counties, will become senior vice president of federal affairs on Jan. 4. Shuler had announced in February he wouldn’t run for another term. […]
Duke’s top federal priorities next year will include tax policies on corporate dividends, a key attraction for its investors, said spokesman Tom Williams. Duke will also be interested in resolving nuclear waste issues as it weighs building new plants and in “fracking” for natural gas, a fuel Duke has used more heavily as prices fall.
Who says all you need is hard work to succeed in America? I know hundreds of people working two jobs or going to school while working to pay for school, putting in 80 hour weeks and their lives are going nowhere. Of course the jobs don’t pay much and the schools cost too much, but that’s beside the point. No the point is that if you can pretend to be good at something and kiss the asses of rich people enough, you will go far in this economy, my friends. So thank you, Heath Shuler, for showing us how to work the system.
