Reply #5: K&R -- Required reading [View All]

[Armstead]

I havevthe TV on in the background and these words hit home especially today:

"I bring all this up because as big business runs and ruins our government and our lives, we are sitting around bickering over nonsense like Jeremiah Wright. We need people in government who will take these monumental problems seriously...Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike. Most animals run for their lives when threatened by obvious danger. We just argue with each other on the tracks as the train fast approaches. I don't usually use this word literally but we've gone crazy.

While our politicians are mired in their short term corporate agendas, they're leaving your future and my future and our kid's future to chance. You don't have to go far to see some of the very real world consequences of government inaction and irresponsible short-term thinking as our financial system crumbles from the corrosive effects of unregulated greed in the marketplace. Politics is not a game, it's physics. With every action there is a reaction...eventually!"