Tuesday, September 06, 2005
We must do better!
I read the paper a couple of hours ago, and I’m still pissed.
The stories about the disaster on the Gulf Coast. About the pitiful Federal response. About the horse executive in charge of FEMA. About the systematic dismantling of FEMA. About the President praising the horse executive.
WOW! Results. These are the results of something. Some kind of attitude, thinking, value system has produced these results, and continues to produce similar results.
How much is enough? How about the President’s fly-by of New Orleans? Is that anything like sitting in the classroom for 7 minutes while the Twin Towers were attacked? Is there a pattern here? Here’s another possible pattern: the President says something like, “Good job, Brownie,” referring to the horse executive. And the President says, WMD, then no, we are spending our lives, suffering maiming wounds, and spending over a billion $ a day – all of which might have been more useful here during Katrina, or for other good uses, we’re doing all of this, for Iraqi freedom. Is there a pattern here? “Good work, Brownie,” and “die for Iraq”?
The pattern’s a little hard to discern at first, but if you think about it, take a deep breath and ask yourself, “what’s the constant in these two situations?” a pattern might emerge.
How much is enough? Winston Churchill said the people get the government they deserve.
Blaming the President and the people that serve and believe in him, is too easy. Each of us, even those that voted for the President and his party - who are more loyal to party and ideology than to the Nation, community and what we hold in common, each of us must search our own hearts. How much is enough? What are we to do, in this the greatest nation on earth? Are these ‘leaders’ Democrats included, who are little better and seemingly without backbone, are these the best we can do? How does the BS that passes for dialogue and discussion among the citizens of the world’s only superpower and greatest democracy work for us?
Search your heart. We can do better. We must do better.
The stories about the disaster on the Gulf Coast. About the pitiful Federal response. About the horse executive in charge of FEMA. About the systematic dismantling of FEMA. About the President praising the horse executive.
WOW! Results. These are the results of something. Some kind of attitude, thinking, value system has produced these results, and continues to produce similar results.
How much is enough? How about the President’s fly-by of New Orleans? Is that anything like sitting in the classroom for 7 minutes while the Twin Towers were attacked? Is there a pattern here? Here’s another possible pattern: the President says something like, “Good job, Brownie,” referring to the horse executive. And the President says, WMD, then no, we are spending our lives, suffering maiming wounds, and spending over a billion $ a day – all of which might have been more useful here during Katrina, or for other good uses, we’re doing all of this, for Iraqi freedom. Is there a pattern here? “Good work, Brownie,” and “die for Iraq”?
The pattern’s a little hard to discern at first, but if you think about it, take a deep breath and ask yourself, “what’s the constant in these two situations?” a pattern might emerge.
How much is enough? Winston Churchill said the people get the government they deserve.
Blaming the President and the people that serve and believe in him, is too easy. Each of us, even those that voted for the President and his party - who are more loyal to party and ideology than to the Nation, community and what we hold in common, each of us must search our own hearts. How much is enough? What are we to do, in this the greatest nation on earth? Are these ‘leaders’ Democrats included, who are little better and seemingly without backbone, are these the best we can do? How does the BS that passes for dialogue and discussion among the citizens of the world’s only superpower and greatest democracy work for us?
Search your heart. We can do better. We must do better.
