[Rhodes22-list] Political and medical reply to Brad

[Brad Haslett]

Thanks Ed,

The best therapy is work!  I ran our trackhoe this morning and pretended to
know what I was doing just to warm the oil for an oil and filter change.
Our buddy Bob (now 81) moved in his new home and is as happy as a pig in -
one happy 81 year old out of a FEMA trailer.  One down, 87,000 more to go.
He's having a SuperBowl party today but I need to get home as soon as the
cloud cover breaks.  I love this place!

Brad


On 2/4/07, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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