I have gone
back through my blogs, and through some of my earlier shows, and when you
consider the vast audience that is out there, I'm amazed that more responses
don't come in. My opinion is just that,
my opinion, and while it's based on things that are printed or said, it's still
my opinion. Why don't YOU out there have
more to say about what goes on in the country?
Is it too much trouble to write your elected officials...or could it be
that you're tired of getting a form-letter for an answer? They DO listen, eventually, and they DO
answer, eventually...but you have to get their attention. There's a story about two farmers, Clyde and
Henry. Clyde sold his mule to Henry and
one day when they meet Henry says, "Clyde, how did you ever get that mule
to do any work?" Clyde responds,
"Well, you gotta walk around front where he can see you and then you whack
him between the eyes with a piece of 2x4."
Henry is aghast and this and says, "Doesn't that hurt him?"
Clyde replies,
"Yep...but you gotta get his attention first." You can't walk up to a Senator and whack him
one, even though you think he deserves it, but telling them, in no uncertain
terms, what you are about, and asking for a reply, addressing THAT concern,
will probably get you a decent answer.
There's a lot in this world that I don't understand, and
one of those things is that administrations, both sides of the political fence,
seem to be more intent on what's good for the party, rather than what's good
for the country. Term limits would put
an end to career politicans, and that would be a good thing. Another good thing, for the country, is for
us to revere the men and women of "The Greatest Generation" because,
as one vet put it, "...if it wasn't for us, you would all be speaking German
now." The attempted closing of the
World War Two memorial, by a government that doesn't seem to know much about
appreciation, was just appalling to me.
Kudos to the people who opened the barriers, and some of them were those
very same elected officials that we gripe about. It's just beyond my understanding that the
men and women who sacrifice so much for us are not treated with the utmost
dignity and reverence. Maybe there
should be a political party comprised of veterans and their families. That would encompass both sides of the
political fence, but stressing neither.
It could be that these folks would have the clear-headed
idea to put country
first. I have a saying over my desk and
it says "Non Sibi Sed Patriae" and translated from the Latin it
means, "not self but country".
I read somewhere that the veterans of WW2 are dying at about one
thousand a day, and we need to know, and honor them.
There is SO much duplication in our government that it
boggles the mind as to how ANYTHING gets done...or done correctly. No one in Washington seems to be aware that
people are lying, under oath, to members of congressional hearings, or if they
ARE aware, they don't seem to care. We
don't have, or shouldn't have, an elite "class" of people in this
country. We are a classless society,
regardless of what you might hear or read.
So much is said about "the middle class" that it makes me ill
to think about it. Go around and start
asking people what class they belong to and you're going to get some mighty
strange looks and answers. Most
Americans probably think they could be doing better, and that some people might
have more stuff than they do...but then, there's others that probably have less
too.
Should we break ourselves
into little groups so that we can be identified that way? If you ask someone to describe another
person, odds are they'll start their description with what that other person
does...but that is not who that other person is, is it?
I don't pretend to have all the answers...I don't even
pretend to have ANY of the answers, but I'll still ask the questions. So you, reading this, do you have a question
that should be answered? Do you have an
answer to a question that other folks might have? Let me hear from you and maybe we can work
something out on some of these questions and answers.
Larry Usoff, US Navy Retired
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