It's above politics. Get energized, it's Save the World time !!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

Imagine for a second, the other path at the fork in the road on September 12, 2001.

Imagine a president who used the global goodwill to gather leaders everywhere (good and bad) to talk about peace.

Imagine a president who understood that we needed to learn more about the cultural differences among all people and seek out ways to bridge these differences.

Imagine a president who consulted with the brightest anti-terrorist experts in the world to develop a multi-lateral plan to capture Bin Laden and his followers and bring them to justice in front of the whole world.

Imagine a president who truly put our safety first and recognized how woefully inadequate and deteriorated our infrastructure and disaster preparedness was, here at home.

Imagine a president who gathered urban, security, and emergency planning experts and created a comprehensive plan for our country's renewal.

Imagine a president who took that plan and lobbied Congress to appropriate $191 billion (current cost of Iraqi War) to:
1 - Improve the domestic security.
2 - Fund state of the art urban evacuation plans and disaster refuge accommodations. Plans that could have been tested today with Katrina.
3 - Fund research and implementation of our country's most pressing infrastructure vulnerabilities, such as innovative solutions to New Orleans flooding.

Imagine a president who recognized what almost all scientists are concurring with - the dangers of global warming and took immediate executive action. Action that one day might reduce the severity of storms like Katrina.

What could have been, can still be. It is not too late. The events of the last week can energize us. We must work harder than we ever thought possible to elect CARING AND THINKING people to lead us. It is more than politics, it is SAVE THE WORLD time.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. I'm beyond ready!

Rise Up People!

[Amonester]

2. I Imagine President Al Gore (although I am convinced Atta...

... & Co, thus, the PNAC's "wished for..." new Pearl Harbor would have been "busted" before they could have done what they did, and tens of thousands on all sides would still be alive or well today).

Al Gore would still be president today also. :patriot:

Good post: that's the way a real "intelligent" prez would have done his job if for any reason, these criminal events would have happened the way they happened: THE WAY HIS JOB FOR THE PEOPLE IS.

:thumbsup:



Edit: had to complete my sayin' (sorry)

[Gregorian]

3. Imagine my father.

This was the one man I heard talking the way your post sounds, just the day after 9/11. He's 81. He and I have spent so much time agonizing over what could have been. And what is.
As stupid as it may sound, it only takes love. Love doesn't come easy when you want to get even. There is no getting even. Especially when one deserves what they get. It's a complex subject. But it's also very simple. Love. Live frugally. Be humble. Basically, follow the Ten Commandments. But we have power, arrogance, greed, anger.

Just one example of what we could have is this- there is a rail line that runs from Humboldt to Marin on the coast of California. The easement rights are being sold off as fast as possible. That rail is never going to run again. But it could have been a brilliant means of transportation and tourism, running through the redwoods, over bridges, next to the big river. This is the kind of thing that happened when bush gained office.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. You are so right. My father is the same way. The generation

is able to cut through a lot of bullshit and they have a finely honed, deep-rooted, sense of what is right and wrong. My dad is where I got my deep compassion for the underdog in all situations.

Interesting that you bring up the rail system. If you have been to europe, you are just amazed at how wonderful and efficient the high-speed trains are. Why do you think that politicians (I assume mostly repugs) are so dead set against a premiere national rail ??

[Gregorian]

5. American carelessness.

I am now seeing what has caused this mess. Cheap and easy resources, taken for granted. We're just an adolescent in the world scheme of things. We pilfered everything we had. It's like my father- he started a business and eventually made a few measly million dollars. All after retirement age. Some people with money, waste it. Some people with money become rotten. My father bought a small piece of property and planted gardens. And hired help from those who cross the border. He treats them like best friends. It's the reckless and careless who have ruined America. Not the liberals, not drugs, not environmentalists, not abortions. I'm really tired of the careless, arrogant idiots. As a bicycle rider, I know what it's like to be the underdog. I spent my life as the underdog. People don't realize that it's the weak link that is the most important one. Ride a bike in this country, and you'll soon find out how it feels to be an underdog. I am particularly angry right now. I just moved to Oregon, and it feels like another universe from where I grew up.


I spend time on a european website, and it just hurts me to the core. They have intelligence, culture, transportation. The ignorance of so many Americans. The carelessness. The cultureless. The lack of feasable infrastructure.