Comments on: The Weirdest Time Ever http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/07/the-weirdest-time-ever/ Thoughts on Dreams, Life, and Spirit Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Anne http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/07/the-weirdest-time-ever/#comment-2678 Anne Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:26:48 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/07/the-weirdest-time-ever/#comment-2678 Hi Reya, thanks so much for your comments. Yes, I am sure you're right that most people in politics believe they have the good of the nation at heart. I am really against conspiracy theories of most every kind, plus I have a cousin in the Pentagon and I know he is a good person trying to do what he believes is right. It is a very good day today. We get our Constitution back. We get accountability for Iraq. We get a raised minimum wage, reinstatement of taxes that Bush cut, and fixes to health care and pharmaceutical piracy. It will take a while to relieve our crushing national debt and address our worrisome trade imbalance. Hopefully we can start taking the initiative on reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and make the best use of the time left to us to reverse the horrors of climate change. Some things are too far gone to change. I don't know how to address the absolute disaster we have created in Iraq. I don't think we'll be able to avoid a lot of the impacts of global climate change. I hope to God we can stabilize Afghanistan. But I do believe it's an incredibly competitive world, and we can't assume everyone is going to play fair. I look forward to integrity, and if there's backbone in it too, maybe we really will turn things around. Hi Reya, thanks so much for your comments. Yes, I am sure you’re right that most people in politics believe they have the good of the nation at heart. I am really against conspiracy theories of most every kind, plus I have a cousin in the Pentagon and I know he is a good person trying to do what he believes is right.

It is a very good day today. We get our Constitution back. We get accountability for Iraq. We get a raised minimum wage, reinstatement of taxes that Bush cut, and fixes to health care and pharmaceutical piracy. It will take a while to relieve our crushing national debt and address our worrisome trade imbalance. Hopefully we can start taking the initiative on reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and make the best use of the time left to us to reverse the horrors of climate change.

Some things are too far gone to change. I don’t know how to address the absolute disaster we have created in Iraq. I don’t think we’ll be able to avoid a lot of the impacts of global climate change. I hope to God we can stabilize Afghanistan.

But I do believe it’s an incredibly competitive world, and we can’t assume everyone is going to play fair. I look forward to integrity, and if there’s backbone in it too, maybe we really will turn things around.

]]> By: Reya Mellicker http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/07/the-weirdest-time-ever/#comment-2664 Reya Mellicker Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:47:47 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2006/11/07/the-weirdest-time-ever/#comment-2664 Santorum was the first to fall. That proves to me once and for all that what goes around actually DOES come around. But even a Democratic House, even accountable leadership, can not turn global warming around, relieve the staggering national debt, or bring healing to Iraq and other areas of Bush-era disaster. It's the end of the empire - the most I can hope for is a softer landing with the Dems. You said: "It’s a dog-eat-man world out there, the competition is vicious, and hardly anyone holds the best interests of the country as their primary concern." The congressional staffers who come to me for massage ALL believe they are working in the best interests of the country. I doubt seriously the people they work for feel any differently. The ones I agree with, the ones I disagree with, though ambitious and too smart for their own good, carry a huge sense of responsibility on their shoulders. They believe they are doing the right thing. You hear about the worst of the them, the Hasterts, the Foleys, the Allens, and you think that means everyone in American politics is utterly corrupt. They aren't, really they aren't! One of the great gifts of my profession in this city is that it's impossible for me to objectify "the government" or even "the military." Mistakes are made every day, compromises and deals go down, but it's a rare minority (in my experience) who actually are thinking about grabbing all the power and money for themselves at the expense of the country. Thank you Anne for your marvelous post! I love people who make me think. Santorum was the first to fall. That proves to me once and for all that what goes around actually DOES come around.

But even a Democratic House, even accountable leadership, can not turn global warming around, relieve the staggering national debt, or bring healing to Iraq and other areas of Bush-era disaster. It’s the end of the empire - the most I can hope for is a softer landing with the Dems.

You said: “It’s a dog-eat-man world out there, the competition is vicious, and hardly anyone holds the best interests of the country as their primary concern.”

The congressional staffers who come to me for massage ALL believe they are working in the best interests of the country. I doubt seriously the people they work for feel any differently. The ones I agree with, the ones I disagree with, though ambitious and too smart for their own good, carry a huge sense of responsibility on their shoulders. They believe they are doing the right thing. You hear about the worst of the them, the Hasterts, the Foleys, the Allens, and you think that means everyone in American politics is utterly corrupt. They aren’t, really they aren’t! One of the great gifts of my profession in this city is that it’s impossible for me to objectify “the government” or even “the military.” Mistakes are made every day, compromises and deals go down, but it’s a rare minority (in my experience) who actually are thinking about grabbing all the power and money for themselves at the expense of the country.

Thank you Anne for your marvelous post! I love people who make me think.

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