Thought this was a neat article that was worth a gander.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/garden/30curators.html?ex=1346212800&en=114b1aacfc81e145&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Home & Garden
Nothing Down, $0 a Month, Hammer Required
By EVE M. KAHN
Published: August 30, 2007
To save houses with a history, states let “curators” move in, fix them up and stay ... for a while.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Just a Thought
Every day I see and here of people promoting an idea and never actually doing anything about it. I decided this bolg will be the beginning of my action to help change the mentallity of our society. (Pretty bold huh?)
I want to see real change not just people kicking around ideas and never actually doing anything to accomplish them. I am speaking directly of politics but it can apply in business and education. Make decisions that make change. Commit to something and follow up to get it done.
Many people criticize Bush, for example, for following his chosen path. They blame him for all the problems with the war, economics, environmental issues, etc. The clear and present problem in America is our lack of support to the President. If we all stood behind him things would get done. We don't and it doesn't.
Clearly the blame lies on the President in most peoples eyes but who are making the decisions? Just the President? No one else in Congress or the Senate can push their agenda? Are they pushing against the plans layed out?
The long and the short of it is work together. I have no doubt that if we as Americans stood behind the President the war would already be over. Everyone(almost everyone) is against war. I am against war. I would rather not go to war. I would prefer we never went to war again. However that is not realistic. People around the world are fighting.
We have the ability to fix the problem. We should fix the problem. Everyone wants us to do it or else the U.N. would have done it. No one wants to do the work but they all want the credit. Every country recognized the problem until we stepped in. For years they talked about it. They talked with Iraq about it. Nothing was done about it.
Same problem in America right now with kids. Everyone seems to forgot how to teach their kids. Tough love. Do what you are told by your parents and you grow up happy. Otherwise you fall from a tree house or crash on your bike or stab your own foot.
America is not perfect. That is not my point. However looking around the world at all the countries do you see one that is doing better? America has only been around for a few hundred years and somehow it is doing better than any other country in the world. Who would you want for a parent? Guatamala? North Korea?
Think about it.
Then let me know what YOU think.
I want to see real change not just people kicking around ideas and never actually doing anything to accomplish them. I am speaking directly of politics but it can apply in business and education. Make decisions that make change. Commit to something and follow up to get it done.
Many people criticize Bush, for example, for following his chosen path. They blame him for all the problems with the war, economics, environmental issues, etc. The clear and present problem in America is our lack of support to the President. If we all stood behind him things would get done. We don't and it doesn't.
Clearly the blame lies on the President in most peoples eyes but who are making the decisions? Just the President? No one else in Congress or the Senate can push their agenda? Are they pushing against the plans layed out?
The long and the short of it is work together. I have no doubt that if we as Americans stood behind the President the war would already be over. Everyone(almost everyone) is against war. I am against war. I would rather not go to war. I would prefer we never went to war again. However that is not realistic. People around the world are fighting.
We have the ability to fix the problem. We should fix the problem. Everyone wants us to do it or else the U.N. would have done it. No one wants to do the work but they all want the credit. Every country recognized the problem until we stepped in. For years they talked about it. They talked with Iraq about it. Nothing was done about it.
Same problem in America right now with kids. Everyone seems to forgot how to teach their kids. Tough love. Do what you are told by your parents and you grow up happy. Otherwise you fall from a tree house or crash on your bike or stab your own foot.
America is not perfect. That is not my point. However looking around the world at all the countries do you see one that is doing better? America has only been around for a few hundred years and somehow it is doing better than any other country in the world. Who would you want for a parent? Guatamala? North Korea?
Think about it.
Then let me know what YOU think.
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