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Originally Posted by chelsea24
I occurs to me SteveZ, that if you and I have this much trouble agreeing on anything, just imagine what goes on in the Senate and Congress! Wow, and we don't have the weight of the world on our shoulders. Personally, I'm wishing everyone good luck at this point.
Quite frankly, I think both of us are taking this to the extreme. I'm betting all is more moderate that is being foretold.
I'm not a blind sheep, but I am an optimist and all I was asking for was to give our (yours too) President more than 3 days to see what plays out. Again, this is an unprecedented crisis and more than any other President, he needs our support. It was not my intention to regurgitate the election, the votes have been cast.  |
For some reason, I'm reminded of a classic scene in Men in Black, where Will Smith has just fired his weapon at the dangerous alien, gets chastised by Tommy Lee Jones for the shooting, responds with a comment about an alien spaceship ready to destroy Earth. Tommy Lee Jones replies with, "
There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they Do... Not... Know about it!"
This economic crisis is "just another crisis" that occurs during a nation's history. I can think of many with significant impact that the public knows about
: 9/11, Cuban Missile, Dot.Com crash, Lockerbie, Vietnam, Gulf I and Gulf II are a few. Also, there have been others which didn't get public exposure, for good reason.
All presidents need support, but they don't need 300 million yes-men agreeing to everything. All plans and ideas need to be subjected to hard scrutiny, because if they can't hold their own to the scrutiny, they may not be so hot after all. The concept of "loyal opposition" as devil's advocate is a proven one which has great merit in a free society.
Thank heaven we are free to debate - many others don't have that right to share ideas and opinions, but must march to a single drummer.
We have it made!