I want to know why it is that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I mean, where is our grease? Do we just not need grease? Are our wheels running smoothly?
Watching the news over the past few days, it seems as though everyone has some kind of bitch and quite a few of them have absolutely no inhibitions when it comes to voicing them. It's like we're in the perpetual shouting match. This person is trying to say something but has to talk over another...then a third person decides that they need to be heard too so they start talking even louder. It rapidly gets to a point where the noise is more deafening than a crowded school lunchroom.
I want very much to figure out a way to silence the squeaky wheel. Have none of these people ever heard the phrase "When life gives you lemons...make lemonade"? We, and when I say we I'm really talking about society as a whole, are far more content to point a finger and scream at the top of our lungs that it's someone else's fault we're in whatever predicament we find ourselves in. For example:
The government, despite messing up right after Katrina, has given more than 85 BILLION dollars to relief efforts. This is in addition to other relief efforts as well as continued work on rebuilding affected areas. Yet, all I'm hearing on the news is how pissed these people are that the government hasn't already come and rebuilt their house. Where I come from, you make sure you have insurance when you buy a house. If you buy a house in a flood prone area or a hurricane zone, maybe you should pay extra to be insured or move elsewhere. But please stop whining that MY tax dollars should build you a new house!
Gas prices. Yeah, they are high almost beyond belief. Yeah, it hurts everytime I go to the gas station...and I don't even own a gas guzzling SUV. Despite this fact, people are still driving cars that can't even dream about 20 miles per gallon. We aren't driving ANY less than we were a year ago. If you don't like the gas prices....drive less, carpool, buy a more efficient car...but I don't wanna hear anymore about how you can't afford to drive to the dadgummed mall! Energy companies will continue to make record profits as long as we continue to follow old habits.
What I wish more people understood is that we all have far more control over our destinies than we have been led to believe. To get a result you've never gotten, you have to do something you've never done. That starts with taking personal responsibility and continues with giving thought to what we can all do to better our own situations. I don't see where that's possible for many people when they are too busy blaming their plight on someone else.
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Good update.
ReplyDeleteI, too, get tired of hearing people complain over and over again.
Personal responsibility, there's a novel idea. It's clear dependence on government is not the answer. Areas along the Gulf Coast equally hit as hard as New Orleans are busy rebuilding, using old fashioned hard work, initiative, and neighbors helping neighbors. Sadly, today most of us don't even know our neighbors, must less help them out in a time of need. Until the welfare system is abolished, and people learn to support themselves, I don't see the situation ever changing. I think much blame should also be placed on the liberal media, such as Oprah Winfrey, if she says it, it must be so. So many people believe whatever they read in print or hear on TV, regardless if it is actually true or not. We have apparently lost the ability to think for ourselves.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, why doesn't our government spend more of our tax dollars for developing alternative fuels? Guess that would not be a popular topic with the oil companies and the people getting rich from them. There are lots of good ideas out there to decrease our need for oil and we need to make sure our elected officials know this is a priority for us. I was pleased to see Willie Nelson is promoting a new fuel called Bio-Diesel. A product created from soy and other grains now being sold at stations nationwide. Fuel from corn or other grains is not a new idea, and even was much touted during the fuel crisis of the 70's and 80's. It was said at the time it was too expensive to mass produce. It would have to be cheaper than fighting an unwinable war over oil. When you see the unprecidented profits the energy companies made this past year you see what is really driving the high price of gas. Seems they have a short memory when it comes to the oil bust of the 80's and what happened to cities like Tulsa, Oklahoma City, and Houston, not to mention countless small towns in Texas and Oklahoma whose livelyhood was closely tied to the oil companies. Now they feel free to invest in upscale shopping centers, pro sports, and building huge luxurious facilities. If they would just spend a fraction of that money to invest in technology for alternative fuels, they would be the heroes of the modern world and would help ensure perpetuation of their company and their way of life. Everyone seems to overlook the fact that fossil fuel does not have an unlimited supply.