Voice For Reason

Archive for September, 2007

911- Where I live it is the universal # to call for help. Six years ago that number was used by frightened people trying to escape a nightmare in the making. The would be rescuers had no idea what danger they themselves were walking into.

I was remodeling a customers house on that day. I remember it like it was yesterday. I had just fitted a sliding glass door into a jamb and secured it. When the owner who was at home sick got my attention, almost as soon as I got to the TV I watched the buildings collapse to the ground. We were speachless to say the least.

Over the next few months our country seemed to have a new sense of purpose. Patriotism was at a all time high, but like most highs it eventually became a downward spiral.

My youngest son of 15 showed me a write up today of one of his friends brothers who died yesterday in Afghanistan. He was a 21 year old Marine serving his second term.

When this war first started I was all for it, but now it seems as though our servicemen are in the same position of the rescuers of 9/11.

We are waging a war with a people who believe they will enter heaven if they kill us. How can such a battle be one with conventional means? It can’t. We need to accept the fact that we have another Police action in progress, and the victory will only be the realization we must leave.

My youngest son plays freshman football. Last night we had our first real game, I noticed something that very out of balance. When the game was all over, the bleachers were covered in trash, were the people had just let it lay.

My wife and I with the help of one other person took 15 minutes and picked it up. Luckily the school had garbage cans available at the end of most isles so the job was a snap. Everyone who had left something for the wind to blow away had quite frankly walked right by a trashcan at the end of their isle.

When we returned home to have dinner I was trying to convey the need for people to do their part for the sake of our planet. Their response, “Why should we do anything? We might take a job away from the maintenance man.” Wow that response was not what I was expecting….

I don’t know about you, but in this day when the environment is reeling from the affects of mans careless use of power, I find it hard to stand idly by and do nothing to contribute to the problem. I also find the attitude of the young people in my area to be the most extravagant I have ever seen. Change is never easy, but this is a change that can keep our world alive.

I am afraid that my children have been spoiled. I know that I cannot push anything into their minds, but I would like to change their flagrant attitude towards their environment.

We residents of this great planet Earth have got to wake up as a collective. The needs of the environment are painfully real, and our actions must be changed if our race is to continue the life everyone has come to rely on. We have no reset on this game, it is either win or lose.

I am not quite sure what people are thinking
today when they complain about where things
are made. After all it was the American
people who pioneered the outsourcing trends
so prevalent in business today.

It would be nice if this could be blamed on the
CEO type of the business world, but the true
culprit is far more sinister in nature. It
was the people with an insatiable desire for
inexpensive material goods, and a decreasing
desire to be truly productive.

The Chinese people, along with many other newly
emerging industrial powers, are the product
of their own inspirational work ethic. An
ethic that at one time was an American mainstay.

Right now 1 working person in America supports
3 + people who don’t. Many of these people
are abusing a system that was put in place to
support the needy. In a country like China
there is simply no room for the lazy people we
so readily take care of.

Whatever the case, no one in the US is
innocent of the demise of our manufacturing
base. We all in some way or another sold out
the RED,WHITE,and BLUE.

From today forward love your country wherever
it is. Work hard when you work, remember you
are carrying 3 + people.