Saturday, June 7, 2008

Government - #101 - #69 - What is the missing word in today’s debate?

“DEFINITION!!!!!”

What is “change”? ...... What “changes”? …. What “changes” to what?
What does America want to be?...... Is it “policeman of the world”? ….. Does everyone have the same standard of living ….(or just our friends?) …... What militarily does this require? …. Who pays? …. Is the U.S. economy strong enough? ….. How do you get the U.S. economy stronger without “globalization” (counting on our friends and enemies!) ….. Who grows the food for the ever expanding third world expansion? …. How do give a part of the world the U.S. standard of material wealth or do they even want it?

First, “What does America want to happen?..... and “why”?

“Without DEFINITIONS”…… All this current debate is meaningless…….
“Gay marriage”, “No child left behind”, “Ethanol” based on corn, the “economy”, “jobs”, the current war in Iraq and the threat of a war in Iran, the election…(blue versus red), “Gitmo”, “Welfare” and the current housing crisis, New Orleans and the hurricane, etc. upon etc.
A bunch of garbage compared to the “real” issues.

What is the "true meaning"?…. Not some more meaningless rhetoric…. Not some more generalizations …. Not some more “lawyer’s talk” !
What do you really mean? …… What do you want?

One half of the current frustration by the ordinary people of America wants to know more about where we’re going; the other one half just wants to know we’re going to be better and doesn’t know or care how. (They listen to and believe in words!) How can we give both sides the information that will satisfy them without giving the enemy the store? Is it “possible”? If not, then what?

Our form of government relies on an “informed and responsible populace”. If we can’t do this, we failed!!!

Do you think this is important?






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