Getting back to basics is a worthy task. Let’s see how many
we can find this day!
A Facebook site entitled “Setting Women Free from Outdated
Society Standards” shares this thought with us today:
“The Republican Party has awakened
the sleeping giant. Women. We have tolerated your misogyny, we have been
polite, reasonable, and tried to help you understand why you cannot control our
bodies. We have received scorn and shame in return. We are the women of the United States of America
Bravo! For the life of me I have never understood why half
of mankind has allowed them to be so abused. All men have mothers,
grandmothers. Most of us have aunts, sisters and mothers in law! How could any
man silence any one of them? And why would we males stand silent while our
counterparts are marginalized, insulted and lessened in any way? This is not about gender. It is about
justice.
One of my favorite public figures is Bernie Sanders,
Independent Vermont Senator who often provides quotable material for this
blog! Here’s another goody:
“Ten of the largest financial
institutions are bigger today than they were before we bailed them out.”
Think about that. They were enormous before the bailout and
they still are, even more so! Bailouts are bad for whom, you ask? Not for thee
evidently!!
The Bully Project shares this Mother Theresa thought with us
today:
“If
you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
Judge. Anger. Resentment. Energy robbing pastimes. Energy
robbed from caring and loving the very same people who most likely need it the
most. Mother Theresa had it right; such
an extraordinary person!
Kathleen Norris offers this pithy statement:
“Disconnecting
from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”
Point on. Change happens. At different rates of speed.
Forward AND backward direction. Ignoring change robs us of opportunity.
Avoiding change is an attempt to lose the future. Neither works.
Frank Wilczek penned this idea:
“If you don’t make mistakes,
you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.”
Ignoring change, ignoring opportunity to get something
accomplished, or doing nothing at all may seem attractive. In time the mistake
of these practices appear. When they do, they will seem too large to repair.
They very well may be! Rather, work on
the problems now, get the courage and work on the really big ones! You can do
it. Together we can do it. We've proved that over and over before. What are we
waiting for?
Robert Reich, a prolific public talent and economist states
the obvious with this quote:
“The issue is not the size of
government. The real issue is who the government is working for.”
Indeed. Those crying for smaller government pad their own
interests continually. They reap the benefits of lower taxes, cheaper labor and
expanded poverty. What they don’t seem to realize is the market shrinkage they
are creating for their very own businesses. Short sighted? Worse. Unjust. Counter
to all of our national values. Trust one another and work on common goals.
Isn't that what government is about?
Bill Moyers reminds us of this fact:
“With the exception of Romania
The same goes for arguments to privatize Social Security, do
away with Medicare and Medicaid. Please! The social contract is the basic trust
we hold for each and every one of us. Damage that and what is left?
Closing today’s blog is this quote from Bernie Sanders:
“Each and every year corporations
and the wealthy are avoiding more than $100 billion in US taxes by sheltering
their income offshore.”
And this action doesn’t even address the investment those
same entities shower on foreign markets annually, investments that do not serve
the American people here at home. Global economics is one thing; but for what
end?
A basic question begging a basic answer. But who is paying
attention?
October 25, 2013
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