An answer to all of you
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Almost all of you keep asking the same questions over and over again..."How could I?", "Why should I?", "Why would I?".
This isn't your grandparents' party anymore. This is not 1958, it's 2008. This is the 21st century. Things, times, move on. The world has changed enormously in the past 50 years. We do not need to look back at the past with rosy-colored glasses. We need to look to the future. In the past 50 years, we have gone from a manufacturing and agricultural economy to a technology-based economy. In the past 50 years, we failed to seize upon obvious opportunities to make positive changes in the way our economy is structured, in the way we use energy, and the way we deal with others in an increasingly global landscape, because we were afraid. We are stuck in the past.
I am 57 years old, but I want to see real change in this country. Our economy stinks because it is built on an ancient, outmoded, consumer-based model. Our society stinks because we have never challenged the way it was headed. We have all the tools to dramatically change the American political, structural, economic and societal landscape, and we don't use them because we are too afraid of change.
I envision a new America, where we pursue our noble ambitions without trampling on the noble ambitions of others; where we are well-regarded world leaders. Where we create, invent, think out of the box and push out the envelope every day. Where we stop reminiscing about our grandparents' time and start planning for our grandchildrens' time. An America where every single person is an active participant in this new society, and not just a casual beneficiary.
Change is coming. You can be part of it and benefit from it, or you can be left behind.
Your call.
This isn't your grandparents' party anymore. This is not 1958, it's 2008. This is the 21st century. Things, times, move on. The world has changed enormously in the past 50 years. We do not need to look back at the past with rosy-colored glasses. We need to look to the future. In the past 50 years, we have gone from a manufacturing and agricultural economy to a technology-based economy. In the past 50 years, we failed to seize upon obvious opportunities to make positive changes in the way our economy is structured, in the way we use energy, and the way we deal with others in an increasingly global landscape, because we were afraid. We are stuck in the past.
I am 57 years old, but I want to see real change in this country. Our economy stinks because it is built on an ancient, outmoded, consumer-based model. Our society stinks because we have never challenged the way it was headed. We have all the tools to dramatically change the American political, structural, economic and societal landscape, and we don't use them because we are too afraid of change.
I envision a new America, where we pursue our noble ambitions without trampling on the noble ambitions of others; where we are well-regarded world leaders. Where we create, invent, think out of the box and push out the envelope every day. Where we stop reminiscing about our grandparents' time and start planning for our grandchildrens' time. An America where every single person is an active participant in this new society, and not just a casual beneficiary.
Change is coming. You can be part of it and benefit from it, or you can be left behind.
Your call.
On June 12th of last year, the 40th anniversary of the court's decision, Mildred Loving made the following statement:
"Surrounded as I am now by wonderful children and grandchildren, not a day goes by that I don’t think of Richard and our love, our right to marry, and how much it meant to me to have that freedom to marry the person precious to me, even if others thought he was the “wrong kind of person†for me to marry. I believe all Americans, no matter their race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry. Government has no business imposing some people’s religious beliefs over others. Especially if it denies people’s civil rights.
I am still not a political person, but I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about."
when telephones were invented, the whole industry was wiped out - or so the story goes.
we have a system now where old technologies are being propped up to the detriment of progress and our economy - by self-professed "free market" capitalists no less.
they are either ignorant or misleading when they act as if they don't understand that "change" is embodied in the essence of free markets - where is the essential "competition" if change is stifled?
change is good for the economy, good for our culture, and good for the environment.
throughout history we have made progress as a civilization.
there is no reason to think we have reached the end of that process now.
we still have a long way to go.
if we are to prosper, we must allow the new ideas to percolate and come to the top.
green collar jobs, that - to me - is where its at.
Ever wonder why in some countries, notably in the Caribbean, power is restored so soon after a hurricane?
I have been in a couple of Category 5 cyclones. One was in the Indian Ocean, on Reunion Island. Another was in the South Pacific, in New Caledonia. Terrible damage in both, but electricity was restored in both cases within a few hours of the event. Ask yourself how they did this?
Power lines are buried in both places, not overhead. Not only means you can restore power quickly after a storm, but also lessens the chances of electrocution (which is a common cause of death in the aftermath of tropical storms).
Change is coming. You can be part of it and benefit from it, or you can be left behind.
But you seem averse to change - by being unwilling to become part of the discussion. So - are you willing to participate, or you just going to be a grouch and nay-sayer?