[Rhodes22-list] Political and medical reply to Brad

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Brad:

Relax and walk away from your discussion with Dave L.  Get out a good pair
of sneakers and go run a couple of miles.

You are dealing with ‘television psychosis'.  It is a mental addiction to
the belief that you can just turn a knob and things will instantly change. 
It requires either a psychiatrist or clinical physchologist and appropriate
therapy.  You have not indicated as having these qualifications. 

This condition was clearly illustrated in the following quote:  “100 church
volunteers showing up in the gulf region for a weeks work will accomplish
something, but if you got 100 million dollars out of the government to buy
and operate a fleet of earthmovers and heavy equipment you’d  get a whole
lot more done a lot faster.  It can be done, but Jr or a  member of his
cabinet has to want to do it.  There's no good reason it  should take this
long to move that money, except that the political  leadership don't care or
don't want to. “

Herein is the belief that you can just throw large amounts of government
money at a problem and instantly the problem will be fixed.  It just ain’t
so.  How many years did it take to build the destroyed infra structure on
the Gulf Coast?  

Again, this demonstrates modern addition to the television set.  Just change
the channel and the program will be better.  

Ed K 
Greenville, SC, USA
Addendum:  "The use of money is the purest act of faith; no anchorite who
has followed a vision into the desert has acted on an idea as far-fetched as
our belief that if we put a dollar in a machine we will be drinking a Diet
Coke in a minute."   Mary Gordon




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