For the Want of a Nail, the Shoe was Lost, For the Want of a Shoe

[opihimoimoi]

the Horse....Rider...Message, .....Army, ......Kingdom.

What are we missing that our America is the way it is:::

In Turmoil, in Debt, in Conflicts, in Pain, in Confusion, in Doubt.
America is grossly rich, arrogant, jaded, spoiled, ignorant, under educated, and easily duped. We lack a COLLECTUVE Understanding based on Reality and Sanity.

For the Lack of Understanding, the Will was lost, no Will, no Ideas, no Ideas, no Plans/systems, no Plans, no effort, No effort, no success, the Nation suffers/lost.

We need to expidite our Improvement Dept. Get it Going.

Opi s rant #76

[NJCher]

1. I was thinking about this this morning

When I heard Hillary Clinton talking about her article that will be in tomorrow's NY Times Sunday Magazine, "Now Can We Talk About Health Care?"

The partisanship (and here I'm mostly speaking about Republicans) kills off any new ideas. If it doesn't adhere to the tenets of raw, unbridled capitalism, forget it.

HC had a vision for health care extended to more people. Her plan wouldn't have included me but I would still have liked to see it enacted.

How are we ever going to free ourselves from this scourge? These hideous people?


Cher

[opihimoimoi]

4. Our Collective Strength depends on our National Health

It makes good sense to have a Healthy Nation.

It also makes good sense to have a system to garner good ideas re the direction of our Nation. But we see those in Power/Wealth rejecting these kinds of notions. They stifle improvement to our existing system unless they benifit. Sad and Selfish.

[bbernardini]

2. And here I thought we were discussing Todd Rundgren!

:) "The Want Of A Nail", the opening track of his "Nearly Human" album, is one of the great soul tunes of all time. It was also featured in the film "Camp".

[opihimoimoi]

5. The Weakest Link is another Name I suppose to descibe how

even the smallest things can affect us if needed at a crucial time.

[Mikimouse]

3. You left out selfish, and that is the key...

we are far too complacent and selfish to go out on a limb and actively defy the very forces that keep us ignorant. As long as we are not forced to live like those 'other' people (bad water, bad food or no food, no sanitation), and have all the gasoline we can burn, there is no real incentive to force change.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Yup, I certainly did miss those two: Complacency and Selfishness

We are too Lazy to want to learn better so we indulge ourselves instead. Classic.

[Octafish]

7. For want of an IDEA, the leader was lost.

And, thus the nation was lost.

You've hit the nail on the head, again, opihimoimoi: The Vision Thing. Like crooked father, like crooked son -- neither has a smidgen of vision.

The reason why gangsters do what they do is that they can't think up an honest way of making a living. They know that they can get what they want by taking it. The Bush Organized Crime Family has taken this philosophy to the highest level, much to the detriment of our nation, allies, and planet.

Their philosophy is take all you can, survival of the fittest, screw the less fortunate. (This isn't true for all Republicans, most of whom are good people -- just the ones in leadership positions -- from Poppy down to Scarborough.)

Contrast by looking at what a real Democrat believes: ALL people are created equal and deserve equal justice, protection, opportunity and respect under the law. Democrats also believe it’s the government’s responsibility to work to make life better for ALL people – not just the rich so-and-sos.

As a good New Deal Democrat, President John F. Kennedy motivated the entire country to attempt and accomplish the impossible. He was following FDR, who created the spirit needed to defeat the Depression and the Fascists in World War 2. So Kennedy had the New Frontier and considered the next step in man's journey.

JFK wanted the nation to do something that had been dreamed about for as long as there had been dreams, but had been considered an impossibility beyond man's reach -- except in the most fevered or fertile of imaginations. So President Kennedy said to the nation: "Let's go to the moon...not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

The results of the Apollo Program were more than advances in technology or the development of new industrial products — that kind of leadership and clarity of vision made what had been an impossible dream of man’s for centuries into reality. JFK had the vision and courage to prove to the world that America is the place where dreams come true. And a free people are the ones who do so.

In getting the nation to accomplish what had theretofore been impossible, the late President also gave us an idea of what the future might have been. If we could go to the moon and back, imagine what our nation could do on earth, where things would be relatively easier? Challenges Republicans like George “we’ve got more will than wallet” Bush Sr shrink from — like poverty, disease, ignorance, war — would be, perhaps not completely solved, but at least we would be working on solving them.

President Kennedy was murdered by people who hate Democrats and what they believe and are afraid of what they can accomplish. The same group has been running our country down the drain for 40 years now. On occassion, they expose themselves as they did during Watergate, the October Surprise treason, the Iran-Contra scandal, the Savings & Loan fiasco, the BCCI criminality, Selection 2000, the corruption of the Fortune 500, and the tragedy of 9-11.

And so I ask anyone who was alive then and remembers what happened that day: America today is not the same. Things are worse and they keep getting worse. That’s why I’m for John Kerry.

Thanks for letting me rant, Opi!

Shanti.

[opihimoimoi]

8. Well said my friend, well said.

Yes, we are missing out on life. Sure it looks good from the outside, but a closer look indeed reveals the short term and not the long. We want things instantly and lack the patience that the long term demands.

Instead of working on the Big, they got us thinking on the Small, such is the Pubs PsyOps.