[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

Thu Jun 20 13:43:01 2002

In a message dated Thu, 20 Jun 2002 12:58:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:

> They may believe that. But all they are really asking is that we give to
> them what took us a long time to build and earn. Is it right that we
> have so much? I am not sure. But I am sure that we have what we have due
> to the work of our fore-fathers and due to our work now.
> Yes we were blessed to have been in a land of great natural resources.
> But many other places have that as well. What is different?

Ralph...what is different is a matter of scale.  In time-honored tradition, if not natural law, the powerful have always taken advantage of the weak.  Hard work?  Yes, for some...but if someone more powerful covets what you work hard for, you'd better be pretty clever to survive.  Right, other places have resources too, and guess who is there working hard to take control of them before others do?  You do know what Enron was about?  Energy control.

I have heard, and wonder if anyone else has heard it too, that at the current rate of consumption the world's entire oil supply will be consumed in 20 years.

 It is the
> choices that were made to have a freer society where that with hard work
> you too can have. Today it is much harder to do this, but it is still
> possible. And as others have stated, even our less 
> fortunate here
> usually have it much better than other parts of the world.

The CIA, NSA, and whatever conglomerate police force emerges from the possible new department plays a huge role in political events worldwide.  I don't think THEY want US to give them want we want them to have and since we won't let them alone, they have found a way to bother us.  The hard work of Revolutionary or Pioneer days is still there if one is willing, but the Robber Barons of today choose the easier path just like the Robber Barons of the past.  I'm not suggesting we take anything from the rich, just from the obscenely rich.

Philip Whitley