When all is said and done, will you be willing to accept incremental changes in...

[WCGreen]

How health care is rationed out in this country...

How the government regulates the carbon emissions in order to ease global warming?

How federal funds are trickled out to the state and local governments in an attempt to rebuild a small portion of our crumbling infrastructure?

How fast (or slow, if you're a pessimists like me) we disengage from combat in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

How federal funds are used to education the next generation?

In the way we allocate resources to individuals? You know the rich getting richer and the poor, well, getting Walmart.



Did we really work so hard for democrats this last election so that all the many transgressions committed by the former administration could be swept under the rug because our leader wants to look forward instead of backward? How does that help the country when the people who look at service as a way to exercise their own private vendetta take control of the government. It will happen again.

Is there going to be more welfare reform?

Is no child left behind going to be looked at with an educators eyes and not a politicians?

Are we anymore prepared for another natural disaster as monumental as Katrina?

Change...

Is that a promise or what we will have left in our pocket full of dreams?

[lizziegrace]

1. Well said, WC

:thumbsup:

[FrenchieCat]

2. I'll let you know in 4 years.

Till then, I'll work hard to get what I can,
take what is coming,
and start adding it up.
Once I have the true sum of things,
I'll let you know how it all worked out.

What I do know is that our work only started with the election of Barack Obama....
I hope you didn't think that's all there was to it!
If it was that easy, it could have only been a dream.

http://abc4all.net/wearetheones.htm

[WCGreen]

3. Well you really don't know me, I guess...

I have been working for these kind of changes since the late sixties when I marched in my first Environmental Awareness March. If I didn't have a disabling condition I would be doing more but suffice it to say, I was involved and disappointed time and time again.

Maybe this country really is a conservative country since when ever they, meaning conservative, get in they rally behind their cause and pretty much get their way until their shenanigans start coming to light.

I'm just putting out some questions as we get deeper into the debates over cap-n-trade and health care reform.

We'll see.

On the downside, I don't think we have four years because if the GOP can portray the Obama Administration as a failure on some of their main positions,it will be easier for them to run against Dem's using Obama. Even if they pick up only a few seats in 2010, it will scare the Dem's that Obama doesn't have long coattails.

On the upside, when Clinton lost a few times in his first two years, he was working against that 43% that he won with. Obama had a very clear majority.

[FrenchieCat]

5. I think this is a manipulated country,

and the media has a lot to do with it....
that and an inherent capability for selfishness which we are trained to
allow ourselves to have from early in life.
I'm not saying we are all automatically selfish,
I'm just saying that we all have that capability within us....
to try and protect what we have and be very afraid that someone is going
to take what we worked for.
If we want someone to have something, we want it to be what we want and when we want,
and not have someone else dictate that to us.
I think that's the classic American political Mentality, from what I see,
which is why making progress is like threading a needle.
It doesn't take much to offend the American voter.

[WCGreen]

6. And the media is going along for the ride...

I would be curious to see how many positive stories about Health Care there are compared with those trending negative...

Compare that to the poll numbers and I am sure you would get a very large disconnect.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Toon to illustrate the paradox in our populace, and why they make things so difficult!

[TheKentuckian]

4. Yes, the alternative to small steps forward seems to be giant leaps backwards.

Every time we give up on incremental change in disgust we trade it for digging a deeper hole. The right stays on target decade after decade and can only be slowed by a combination of a done in populace and leadership willing to give a little to keep the majority of the system in place. Conditions that by definition can only exist for a very limited period of time.