Saturday, March 7, 2009
A Government for Change...where are we heading now?
There is a passion in other countries that you do not see in the US. People who stand up against their Goliath and know they will see death but all the same they stand up. They have beliefs that are so deeply embedded in them that they can not possible stop believing or their world would crumble so they fight on. Here in the US we think they are crazy left wing terrorist that should all be mowed down.
But for one day if all of us believed that deeply we could find an answer and came together to fight for what we believed in maybe we would have a chance. But if that believing means more cell phones more shopping sprees more stuff to fill the castles we have built around us while others starve and children die of hunger then we as a nation have failed.
I have to explain everyday to my children why people are being killed why they see parents carrying their fallen babies down the street and the US says we are "Saving them" The cost of which is trillions. We could be using those same resources to house the homeless, teach our children, care for the aging. There are those who will look at the past and say that when we fight in a war we have come together and pooled our resources and it has brought us out of depression. But since the Vietnam war we have not rallied around war. It has divided our nation The generals convince the legions that they must fight and the government feeds this angry beast our money and children. Today we have a new foe and with it we are feeding it our weak the old, the sick the homeless the children of underprivileged and every time we turn on the TV or pick up the paper they are convincing us that we must feed this animal or else .... the question is or else what? we will have more hungry, old and poor? Maybe if we feed and care for the old, hungry and poor instead of the beast they will fight with us to stop the beast from taking us over.
There is this simple saying I tell my children when you make a mistake and have fallen in to a pit put the shovel down and stop digging. it will give you a chance to think about what you must do and then when you pick it back up you can build stairs to help you climb back out other wise the hole will get to deep and the walls unstable and it will fall in on you.
My letter to our Government would start with:
Dear President,
Please put down the shovel. Take a deep breath and find the firm part of earth around you to build the first step. Stop feeding all the fires around you let the flames die down so that you can see them for what they truly are.
For me I hope that I can take the time to help my own community see these beasts so that we can put our shovels down and find that firm part of the earth in which to build the first step
But for one day if all of us believed that deeply we could find an answer and came together to fight for what we believed in maybe we would have a chance. But if that believing means more cell phones more shopping sprees more stuff to fill the castles we have built around us while others starve and children die of hunger then we as a nation have failed.
I have to explain everyday to my children why people are being killed why they see parents carrying their fallen babies down the street and the US says we are "Saving them" The cost of which is trillions. We could be using those same resources to house the homeless, teach our children, care for the aging. There are those who will look at the past and say that when we fight in a war we have come together and pooled our resources and it has brought us out of depression. But since the Vietnam war we have not rallied around war. It has divided our nation The generals convince the legions that they must fight and the government feeds this angry beast our money and children. Today we have a new foe and with it we are feeding it our weak the old, the sick the homeless the children of underprivileged and every time we turn on the TV or pick up the paper they are convincing us that we must feed this animal or else .... the question is or else what? we will have more hungry, old and poor? Maybe if we feed and care for the old, hungry and poor instead of the beast they will fight with us to stop the beast from taking us over.
There is this simple saying I tell my children when you make a mistake and have fallen in to a pit put the shovel down and stop digging. it will give you a chance to think about what you must do and then when you pick it back up you can build stairs to help you climb back out other wise the hole will get to deep and the walls unstable and it will fall in on you.
My letter to our Government would start with:
Dear President,
Please put down the shovel. Take a deep breath and find the firm part of earth around you to build the first step. Stop feeding all the fires around you let the flames die down so that you can see them for what they truly are.
For me I hope that I can take the time to help my own community see these beasts so that we can put our shovels down and find that firm part of the earth in which to build the first step
Labels: government
// posted by DME @ 7:59 AM 
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