Beginning to think about 2010
I’m not big on resolutions for the New Year, but this article I read on TruthOut by Jim Hightower has me thinking about resolutions and our government leaders. Here is a paragraph as an example:
Jim Hightower| Hoping for a New Ethic in 2010
27 December 2009 | Truthout.org
Let’s start, then, with those proud-and-loud members of Congress who’ve adamantly opposed real health insurance reform for workaday Americans. Not only do I include the entire block of Republican lawmakers whose vocabulary is limited to the word “no,” but also those pathetic Democrats who’ve compromised the reform idea into corporate mush. It would be neat (and only fair) for each of these stalwarts of the status quo to make this vow for 2010: “Since I helped kill reform, I will give up the excellent government-paid, socialized health coverage that I get so that I am in the same leaky boat as my constituents.”
Is our system so dysfunctional that it can no longer be self correcting? Isn’t that what electing Obama was all about?