I'm still thinking...
Many thanks to all of you who have sent encouraging comments and letters. (For those of you who have quit trying to find something worthwhile in this life---and you know who you are---I'm sorry. I plan to live until I die.) But for now fellow bloggers, Lucy has her "Let's Straighten Out This Government" hat on.
I simply can't believe the current administration. I'm pretty apolitical (6 of one, half dozen of another) but I'm aghast at what I hear and read on the news. I was already upset---and I realize this is old news--- I was still fretting about John Gibson, one of my favorite news commentators, reminding me that FEMA has a truly outstanding record of mismanaging donations and government funds---i.e. unwrapped new furniture being auctioned off for private profit and new, unused trailers sinking in the LA mud.
But the more recent news tops it all. UAE? Port control? 6.3+ billion to an Arab company? Are we nuts? I realize I'm simplifying, However, my fears are based on a substantial violent faction of Islam that knows no borders. Can we really believe this UAE company won't (even unwittingly) grant work visas to potential terrorists? Please. It sounds like more equivocating to me.
The good news---and there's plenty of that, will come tomorrow.
Have a great week and keep in touch,
Lucy D
I simply can't believe the current administration. I'm pretty apolitical (6 of one, half dozen of another) but I'm aghast at what I hear and read on the news. I was already upset---and I realize this is old news--- I was still fretting about John Gibson, one of my favorite news commentators, reminding me that FEMA has a truly outstanding record of mismanaging donations and government funds---i.e. unwrapped new furniture being auctioned off for private profit and new, unused trailers sinking in the LA mud.
But the more recent news tops it all. UAE? Port control? 6.3+ billion to an Arab company? Are we nuts? I realize I'm simplifying, However, my fears are based on a substantial violent faction of Islam that knows no borders. Can we really believe this UAE company won't (even unwittingly) grant work visas to potential terrorists? Please. It sounds like more equivocating to me.
The good news---and there's plenty of that, will come tomorrow.
Have a great week and keep in touch,
Lucy D
posted by goldenlucyd @ 12:00 PM
13 Comments:
At 2:36 PM,
Anonymous said…
You just made me discover a great new expression: I'm going to live until I die. Just love it ;)
At 4:40 PM,
Anonymous said…
I too consider myself apolitical but, bend a bit to the right. I'm truly speachless over this subject. Read into that that as shocked.
On a different note, I love your blog. It brings a smile to my face every time I read it.
~Danielle
At 8:47 PM,
kenju said…
I may repeat what Danielle said - and then I won't have to type it..LOL (I am shocked too).
At 10:12 PM,
Anonymous said…
Unfortunately, am no longer surprised by such misguided actions as this UAE issue appears to be. Wonder if maybe the time has come to specify a U.S.A. company should own and lease our ports?
Don't we have any companies who could financially afford them, efficiently handle their leasing? George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and others, where are you?
Should they be city, state, or federal government owned?
At 6:56 AM,
Anonymous said…
I'm with Joared on the fact that a U.S.company should own and lease our ports. The announcement of the UAE taking over scares the stuffings out of me. Not only are company sending our jobs overseas but now they want to put the power of port authority in foreign control. How did the British get the job in the first place? Are we as a nation so lazy and self centered that we can't do the jobs that should be done to maintain our nation? On the jobs subject couldn't the big companies sacrifice a little profit to keep the work force of this nation employed. Do the stockholders have to have big profits if it means some poor family will lose their home because the bread winner can't find a job with a decent wage? This coutry is swiftly going you know where in the proverbial handcart and I for one am sad to see it happen. Find us a person with the guts and the know how to put on the brakes!
At 8:24 AM,
goldenlucyd said…
Well said, folks! I loved Momma's rhetorical question: "Do the stockholders...?" Gee, that's tough one!
Like I said, I'm know I'm simplifying the political/economic situations that upset me. But after listening to all the spin and rationalization I come once again to the conclusion I'm not deaf, blind and totally stupid yet.
Yep, I just can't wait to vote!
At 12:20 PM,
Anonymous said…
Earlier in my life I was politically active. Today, I feel worn down and completely disillusioned which really bothers me because apathy is a danger in itself. FEMA was bad enough, the UAE Port Control is terrible, but the one that will get me up off my lazy butt is the North Dakota anti-abortion bill.
At 2:06 PM,
Anonymous said…
Lucy,
If you get a chance go to this site about selling MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat)on Ebay. They were given out to Katrina survivors and ended up being sold on EBay.
EBayhttp://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=99540&ran=100277
At 3:12 PM,
Sky said…
Great post Lucy. We all have to get up off our butts and communicate with those who are coming up for reelection - an entire House of Representatives! They need to know we are finished with this administration thumbing its nose at all of us! We are powerful IF we vote because we are a large number. Those of us who are 50 and over and those of us who are women of any age - we carry a large percentage of the vote. We must care enough to vote, and we must become active in our political futures.
I am going to do some volunteer work in hope of electing a representative who best represents my values and opinions. My senators already do.
Thanks for this reminder, Lucy!
At 5:38 PM,
Kay Dennison said…
A high five to you, Lucy! I'm as appalled as you are at this latest travesty perpetrated by those crazies we've got in D.C. I have this vision of everyone standing up like in the great film "Network"
and shouting: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
But, alas that won't happen because
most people don't pay attention until it directly affects them. You keep thinkin', Lucy -- that's what you're good at. :)
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