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| Sep 07, 2005 9:15 pm |
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re: re: Katrina - - If ever there were a need for innovation |
Bob Jasper
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Hi John:
You wrote:
"Nothing will get fixed until most American's understand that many things need fixing. Belief that "America is the greatest country in the world" is a stopper that prevents things from being fixed. The Constitution is part of the problem, fixing that is part of the solution. If GW Bush succeeds in stacking the Supreme Court with conservative judges, fixing the Constitution might be delayed 30 years. I can't be sure that the USA has the luxury of 30 years to do it. It increasingly looks to me like we'll have blood in the streets first."
IMO, the USA has been on a downslide for many years, perhaps since the end of WWII. You are right, nothing will get fixed until enough people believe it is broken. The 2000 election should have proven to everyone that the system was broken. The Vietnam war should have proved it. Bush's stack of lies used to rationalize going to war in Iraq to gain control of Iraqi oil and rid the Bushes of the Saddam menace to the family should have proved it.
Bush will stack the court and it will be a major set-back for civil rights and civil decency in this country. We are rapidly becoming a very polarized society, as the events in New Orleans underscore. Race is very much a factor, but an even greater one is economic class. The poor become poorer while Gates and Buffet stack up their millions upon millions. Pay for teachers never reaches $100,000; the pay for the poorest athlete never drops below several million.
What is happening in New Orleans could just as easily be happening in Washington D.C. or any other major U.S. city. Subject people to that much stress and it will bring out the best in some and the worst in others. When those who have very little lose even what little they have, what have they got left to lose? And, if there are no jails to lock them up in and no police to jail those who take advantage of the situation...
Bob Private Reply to Bob Jasper (new win) |
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