Shocked and Angry
Hello...yes, am alive and so is everyone I know, though a friend of mine had just crossed the 35W Bridge here in Minneapolis not 10-15 minutes before it collapsed. Watched in horror when I got home that night and turned on the tv...
Terrible, just terrible. And to think that thousands and thousands of bridges all over the US are just as bad, if not worse.
Reminded me of that song by this one country singer called "America First," where he sang about how we spend all this money elsewhere, but then don't spend the money to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges. Sounds almost prophetic now. Of course, rebuilding roads and bridges (which is part of what govts are supposed to do) doesn't line the pockets of the big companies which make weapons and supply wars now does it?
Sad, so sad.
I do think it is time and more than time that our govt spends the money it takes in in taxes on the poor and homeless and hungry in THIS country for a change. Not to say that we can't and shouldn't help others, but shouldn't we help ourselves too?
Why bother to defend a country that is crumbling down around our ears? Especially when the very liberties we are meant to have--and that our ancestors died to create--are being taken away from us in the name of "safety" and "security." Get a clue...no one can ENSURE your safety or security or surety, and if the cost of pretending to is all the liberties that this country was founded upon then the cost is too high by far.
Oh, but I forgot. Some people think that they are only in this world to make money upon the backs (and lives) of others and don't give a rat's ass otherwise.
Time for a change.
Will light a candle today for those who died and those who were hurt and in the hopes that something good will come of what happened this week.
Terrible, just terrible. And to think that thousands and thousands of bridges all over the US are just as bad, if not worse.
Reminded me of that song by this one country singer called "America First," where he sang about how we spend all this money elsewhere, but then don't spend the money to rebuild our crumbling roads and bridges. Sounds almost prophetic now. Of course, rebuilding roads and bridges (which is part of what govts are supposed to do) doesn't line the pockets of the big companies which make weapons and supply wars now does it?
Sad, so sad.
I do think it is time and more than time that our govt spends the money it takes in in taxes on the poor and homeless and hungry in THIS country for a change. Not to say that we can't and shouldn't help others, but shouldn't we help ourselves too?
Why bother to defend a country that is crumbling down around our ears? Especially when the very liberties we are meant to have--and that our ancestors died to create--are being taken away from us in the name of "safety" and "security." Get a clue...no one can ENSURE your safety or security or surety, and if the cost of pretending to is all the liberties that this country was founded upon then the cost is too high by far.
Oh, but I forgot. Some people think that they are only in this world to make money upon the backs (and lives) of others and don't give a rat's ass otherwise.
Time for a change.
Will light a candle today for those who died and those who were hurt and in the hopes that something good will come of what happened this week.