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.
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Ah yes, more than "just a thought" Too Vinnie. Most of it is true, but let me leave you with a little thought, one that drives me often.
It is everyone's right and in fact everyone's DUTY to question authority, particularly the authority pressed upon us by our government. To lose the right to question authority makes us no better than the alternative "parents" you mention.
In America, I believe we all too often question authority but all too seldom act upon the question. We distrust and dislike our political leaders (unless they belong to our party) yet do little to change the system. We all too often get caught up in blindly following the leader of our sect, our party, our movement and all too seldom question their motives, question their integrity, or question their financial backing. Two of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen, Jesus and Gandhi, were poor with little in the way of the self-promoting agenda we get out of today's "leaders". Yet most Americans really don't understand what either of these men really stood for past what they learn in Sunday school or in books written by men. It is the same with the much lesser men we elect as leaders today.
If you take the President, and you see what he has and has not done for our country without conservative or liberal blinders on, you see a man owned by oil companies and big business. Sure, he has made tough choices and stuck with them as a leader, but destroys life while at the same time preaching for the protection of it. His refusal to ratify the Kyoto Accords has caused severe damage to our environment. Oil companies make over a million dollars a day in PROFIT while most of us struggle to pay our bills each week. Some of us pay nearly 40% of our wages earned each week to a government so far in debt that it may mortgage our children's future. Health care costs have gone unchecked and he has done NOTHING to stem the tide. Real Americans are hurting, and our government, both Republicans and Democrats, ARE DOING NOTHING TO STOP THE PAIN.
Our "leaders" are more worried about getting campaign contributions then they are about making sure I can feed my family each week or pay for my health insurance. The care more about defending Haliburton then they do about making sure our people can afford the pills that keep many of them alive. They care more about remodeling their offices in Washington DC then they do about rebuilding the lives devestated by Hurricane Katrina. Our government cares more about building bombs that kill people then it does making sure the rest of the world doesn't hate us for our arrogance and our indifference.
In other words, our "leaders" and our government has lost it's way and unless we are prepared to question it and demand change through action, we are also to blame. Our government is "of the people, by the people, for the people" and as long as we are lazy, indifferent, and all too willing to follow blindly, then our government will reflect our lazy, indifferent, meaningless attitude.
It is time for change Vinnie, are you willing to help lead the charge?
I was afraid when I used Bush as my example people would get the wrong idea of what I was trying to say. I would like to think I was a supporter of all the presidents in my lifetime regardless of political party. The first president I really started to follow was Reagan thanks to the interest of a good friend of mine. :)
I have supported all the presidents since that time because I believe that is how things get done. People working together. What you say Mongo is true. "Real Americans are hurting, and our government, both Republicans and Democrats, ARE DOING NOTHING TO STOP THE PAIN." That is what I am saying. I checked the Mongo blog and it listed all the senators voting the wrong way. Why? Why aren't they voting for good things that are clearly good?
I didn't say it in my initial blog but who is scratching who's back and why? It should be more clear to see why your Senator is voting the way he votes. There shouldn't be more then one agenda on each bill submitted to congress. Things should be clear. But what did Bush have to push so Democrats and Republicans would vote to support him in the war? Is it really his fault he "voted" against the environment or is that the compromise he had to make.
My point is not pro Bush but pro action. Not pro Washington offices but pro Help to New Orleans, etc.
We are on the same page and I am ready for a change.
Great minds think alike ;-D.
Unfortunately, most Americans are too wrapped up in the lives of their favorite movie stars than then they are in their own lives. They love to gossip about everyone else as they hope it makes their lives seem all the better. Unfortunately, all it does is make them feel worse, and leaves them out of touch in this world gone mad.
Love is not the only thing that makes the world go round. Tolerance, expression, and freedom are also engines of a world progressing. We need someone (or some people) in this country who is (are) willing to make sacrafices in the furthering of a common good. They will have to put themselves "out there", subject to ridicule, media invasion of privacy, and trivial pursuits of character assassination that will undermine their cause. They will have to suffer, yet be willing to see the job done to it's fufillment. Are there Americans like that out there any more, or has our society driven them into hiding forever?
Time will tell. We will either become the great civilization we were destined to be or go the way of the great civilizations before us: the Romans, the Greeks, etc.
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