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| "SHIP OF FOOLS" |
HANK1 |
02/02/07 |
"The ship of fools is an old allegory, which has long been used in Western culture in literature and paintings. With a sense of self-criticism, it describes the world and its human inhabitants as a vessel whose deranged passengers neither know nor care where they are going." - Wikipedia
Well, guys and gals, perhaps it's time for HANK to take a hard line re: what's going on in our culture and elsewhere. How about an analogy? Let's call our White House a SHIP and call the politicians who haunt it EARTHLINGS who neither know nor care where WE, the citizens, are going. They're out for themselves. So, maybe our balance of power should be shifted from Washington to ALL State capitols. The United States exemplifies a FEDERAL republic whose central government is suppose to be restricted in power. Sorry! It's not! If each State became a REPUBLIC, a common sense REPUBLIC, said States would be ruled by very inclusive electorates. Reasoning: It's much easier for me to keep my eyes on the head of a pin instead of on a requiem. Smaller the better!
Would it be feasible to have 50 common sense REPUBLICS than what we have now? (Disclaimer: This is nothing but a hypothetical question)
HANK
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Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 02/02/07 3:41 pm:
Hank regarding you rating comments to the Captain :
The founders were far from the unified group that most imagine they were . Their partisan bickering was much more vicious then anything we see today . No one today gets shot in a duel like Hamilton was . Jefferson and John Adams once the closest of friends became bitter rivals during the Washington Presidency and they only sorta reconciled on their death beds (they both died the same day ...on the Fourth of July ,1826)
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 02/02/07 5:07 pm:
Hank . Most of my politics are local .That is where I am active. Trust me ;State gvt. is no panacea . Can my community live the way we want to ? That's a big NO . The State won't budge on classifying our small town Main Street as a State truck route. It cost our little village a fortune in small business revenue lost because consumers do not feel safe parking in front of stores or even crossing the streets . We have lowered the speed limit as low as we are permitted and still trucks come barreling through .We do not have the resources to man a police force on our own so we are beholden to county and State police for enforcement. If I had my way there'd be speed bumps across the street.
Our govenor boldly called himself a" f***en steam-roller " this week and the local press is praising it. He is a tyrant ;he was a tryant as Attorney General and he will be worse as a govenor. States rights are not the answer;Citizen engagement is . Clarification/Follow-up by HANK1 on 02/02/07 10:37 pm:
Tom: I live in a small town but not that small. What's the State's reasoning behind the turn-down? Citizen engagement IS the way to go. Why don't you round up a bunch of guys and construct some speed bumps some dark, cloudy night? All you do with quick drying cement is add water! That's something I would do!
HANK
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