I'm an expert at cleaning up longstanding problems. Of all types. I've also stepped in and business-re-engineered entire corporate processes, including backroom operations, you name it. One thing I know: Everybody bitches, non-stop, until everything is in place and working. It takes months and years, even decades, depending on the size of the changes.
What would have been nice is if all those clients of mine had just shut up and let me do my job instead of giving me grief. Eventually, I learned to ignore their complaints because I knew that when everything was finally done, they would be happy. And they were.
What would have been even better was if every one of those clients had offered to be a part of the solution. We could have had fun implementing the change instead of dreading the process.
Gee. What would happen if every citizen decided to shut up and do their part instead of bitch?
I'm not dissing the freedom to bitch. I love doing so on occasion. But on this subject? I guess I'm tired of it.
The last time America faced an economic doomsday, FDR became president and both solved the immediate problems and put in place social safety nets we still rely upon today.
Obama is no FDR. (Sigh)
You're right. He's no FDR and this ain't FDR's depression. Give it a break, already. Maybe it's my nature to hope but I can't seem to help it. Dum Spiro Spero...the South Carolina state motto...while I breathe, I hope. Stop all the bellyaching and lend a hand to turn the problem around.
It seems like many Americans are doing just that. They've tightened their belts, put more money into savings, re-allocated some of their investments, changed their way of thinking. More are volunteering, helping those who are not as well-positioned to help themselves. More people are moving in with family. I have a brother, an adult son and, temporarily, my older daughter, her husband and two children as well as my younger daughter at my house. It's a little tight but we'll make it through and we'll be the better for it.
We don't go out to eat as often as we once did. Shopping trips are smaller and better planned. Automobile trips are fewer and also better planned. Spur of the moment entertainment is generally something we can all do free. Family time is more frequent.
Once you've done all you can at home, step out into your community and see whom you can help or what you can do there. Busy hands are a good thing and when you're working towards a solution you have less time to bitch about what others are or are not doing.
FDR had more then a few Republicans in Congress/Senate that supported his common sense legislation back then.
Republicans and DINOs have moved so far to the right today they would rather see the country fail completely then give a Democrat credit for good legislation again; they march in lock step as one like Borgs.
It’s crazy...
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The point is that FDR's policies were not "common sense" when he proposed them; they were radical.
But Obama, even having the lessons of the Great Depression, can't get up the oomph to propose what needs to be done. He has an underfunded stimulus and no jobs bill. He throws money at banks without reforming their practices that got us where we are. It's as if he thinks Herbert Hoover had the right ideas.
(Sigh)
They may have been radical to Republicans but they were common sense to most non-Republicans and non-partisan Economists of the time. The two arguments
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What "good legislation" are you talking about LLL?
...just askin'
I'm an anarchist; there is no such thing as a good law.
If they would strengthen whatever law that would keep religion OUT of politics...I'd be into that law.
Wow!
I wish I'd gotten here earlier! I'd have had something to every one of your collective rhetorical answers.
So I am left to answer BC's rather interesting posit.
Religion invented politics.
