Dear Citizens:
Remember in Passing View the lady on the train.
Let's examine her question on seeing the tent city: "Why can't the government do something about this?"
While I do remember a dint of pity in her voice did she mean help the tent dwellers with aid or remove them with force?
Small but necessary first steps in essential aid --porta potties from the local governments, request from area churches for food and bottled water-- looked to be in place at that time but the problem of the displaced person still remained and to this day, six months later, still remains.
CNN reports "Tent camps once associated mainly with the "Hoovervilles" of the Great Depression are springing up in places as varied as Sacramento, California; Nashville, Tennessee; Pinellas County, Florida; Providence, Rhode Island; and Seattle, Washington."
Should we tip our teabaggedly treated tricornes, as we ride by, all the while complaining to the club car patrons that "big" government of this new "illegit" administration made this problem therefore the one solution we don't need is more interference from the government and then shouting to the tent dwellers, "Don't worry, when the economy gets back on it's feet your tent cities will go away and you will have jobs and your homes back."
Well, of course not! That would be just silly. It becomes the Laissez-faire or the Lazy Fairy approach. Pass out a few bottles of water and blame someone. I've done what I can now leave me alone. Read--give me my government back.
Too much government or not enough?
Do we help or just get off the train at the next stop?
Hard choices to make.
What would Jefferson and Hamilton say if they had been on the train?
Soon
Be Well and I am trying to be civil.
A Journeyman Citizen
Too much government or not enough?
Do we help or just get off the train at the next stop?
Hard choices to make.
What would Jefferson and Hamilton say if they had been on the train?
Soon
Be Well and I am trying to be civil.
A Journeyman Citizen
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