The attached coulumn is by Culpeper Star Exponent Columnist James Bayne IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING…
These are the beginning words from a quote attributable to Yogi Berra. The complete quotation is: “If you don’t know where you are going; you might wind up some place else”.
As we, as individuals and our nation as a whole, set out on this New Year it will behoove us to know where we are going. The last few years have seen a culmination of failure on the national level “to know where we were going” which has resulted in a protracted military undertaking in the middle east; massive losses in national manufacturing strength; transfer of large numbers of jobs to overseas locations; ruinous unemployment levels across the employment spectrum; and rampant avarice and greed in the upper echelons of banking and insurance industries who took advantage of the failure by the Federal Reserve Board to know where its actions were leading; are among those areas which affect the citizenry. It is my belief that each of these missteps occurred because we did not know where we were going.
While we tend to place the blame for failure of a national program or mission with the President in office at the time it is, in truth, not just the President but also those in his cabinet and the Members of Congress who share the blame. They must develop clear sustainable programs on “where we are going” and partisanship ideologies must be set aside for the good of the Nation in order that we do not wind up some place else. While I do not pretend to understand the contents of the proposed health care reform before the Congress, it seems to me that they are bound and determined to enact something that approximately 60% of the public does not want.
This seems to be a continuation of the types of errors made in the past such as the misapplication of our military forces in involvement in the internal affairs of other nations; covert operations (including abetting coups) in some nations; and internally we have been, and are, pursuing courses of action which threaten the long term stability of the nation. I understand that the debt limit for the Nation has recently been raised to $12.4 trillion and that increase immediately triggered new plans for further expenditures on programs which may have little, if any, sustainable long term benefit for the nation.
I will cite just one current example of not knowing where we are going and that is the recent airliner bomb threat at Detroit. Involved in this failure to detect are the National Security Agency; the CIA; the National Counterterrorism Center; the State Department; the Homeland Security Agency; the FBI Terrorist Screening Center and probably other agencies of which I am not aware. Might it be that we have too many cooks stirring the pot (and none with the recipe knowing where we are going)?
May you and yours have a most happy and prosperous New Year.
Tags: 2009, direction, health care reform, jobs, Obama
Anybody wanna know one major “change” unfolding right now? The “powers that be” and I don’t mean politicians, are now ready to get the people to turn against the obviously “flawed” party system. They are expecting the people to either rebel against it by force so they may put “their system” place, or just accept said “change” when they make it happen (they prefer the former). This is a common tactic used throughout human history to make a populous think that they are actually ousting the
While I am not a liberal, I did vote for Obama and I sincerely hope that he turns around and does what is best for the country and the majority of it’s citizens. Moore is right about Obama using what he has while he has it. The Republicans have found a common enemy for themselves and a good portion of the whites in America, and that enemy is Obama. They couch it in several terms, but it all boils down to racism. I never thought I’d live to see white Americans revert to racial attitudes that I thought were dead, but we can’t deny what has happened. I remember my Dad and uncles changing partys back in the 60s because of the Civil Rights Act, and I remember why. It’s the “southern stratagy” all over again, but this time on a national scale. It makes me sick to hear people who I thought were open-minded Christians say the things they say. It makes me ashamed to be considered one of them.
I understand that Israel has it’s own lobbyist group in washington (AIPAC – gee I wish the citizens of our country had a lobbyist group of their own), and that Israel also receives over 2 billion dollars from the USA annually. Perhaps throwing this insulting monkey wrench into the peace process, was just their way of saying “thanks”. After all this, there are still some people who say “they’re our closest ally in the region”. Want another tired old saying? …With friends like these…and I am Israeli!
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Hey – nice write-up. Well, the healthcare plan is now law. We still need to read the entire thing, but we all know that it is that it’s going to cost this country a lot of money. I’m a small-business owner, and I’m concerned about the raise in taxes. I want to hire more employees, but this plan makes that extra difficult for us little guys. Here’s my problem: If none of us are hiring, how can this economy get back on its feet? Anyway… cool site… I’m subscribed to your RSS feed now so thanks again!
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