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Originally Posted by golfnut
i am probably missing something here so let's start by keeping it simple, TH, how does someone (not known to me or anyone i know) plowing through a pump house in the middle of a roundabout affect me....gn
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It affects you because it is your community, your pump house, built with your tax dollars that pumps your sewage. It's your police department paid for by your tax dollars that investigates the accident. It's your fire department and ambulance squad that responds to the event. It's your tax dollars that makes the repairs. Accidents like this are troubling trends. If you don't want to be informed about this and other similar trends, then you have no right to complain when it ultimately affects you.
If we, as citizens, don't keep track and care about what is going on around us, all the time, every time, every day, then we are are signaling that we are willing to accept anything that is handed to us. Apathy amounts to greed. "I want to enjoy my little piece of the world, but I refuse to be bothered with anything outside of my personal sphere."
I don't know one person in Haiti, but I am affected deeply by the events there. My Marines, my President, my tax dollars and my emotions are all intimately connected to this event.
When one of my community neighbors smashes through a pump house, I care about it.
I always have and will continue to care about what goes on in my community, you may do as you please.
BTW I didn't answer your question because you demanded it, I answered it because I wanted to. This is my last post in this thread.