by StarmanSkye » Wed Mar 15, 2006 9:28 pm
Amazing ...<br><br>The good 'Major' (???) thinks it's a good idea for the Federal Scamsters to dig into the never-ending public slush-fund of funny-money to fund 100 mercenaries costing $ 233,000 EACH per year, instead of funding a police-force in the 'usual way', ie. tax revenue -- including a fair-portion from corporations that no-longer pay their equitable share of public administration expenses and social costs -- for rookie police-officers at $40-50,000 per year -- or 12 to 13 million dollars vs. 70 million dollars c/o the FEMA gravy-train scam.<br><br>As far as that goes -- the 'trailers' concept is another incredibly stupid, wasteful, inefficient, and impractical short-term solution to the issue of long-term community housing. Of course, I understand why creative, cost-effective solutions aren't being pursued -- NOBODY in the whole corrupt Federal Bureaucracy has any interest in building safe, energy-efficient, modern housing in neighborhoods where people can truly develop strong community relationships where sharing, self-empowerment, public political and economic participation, local self-reliance and equity-stakes are emphasized.<br><br>Why the FUCK aren't people demanding the government invest THEIR money in themselves to build the kind of model neighborhoods THEY want to build and live in? I mean, it isn't the gummint's money! It's OURS -- WE'RE collectively on-tap to repay it.<br><br>Jeez, what a criminal lack of imagination and common-sense and hopes and initiative. With wholly devastated neighborhoods, I keep thinking about all the wasted opportunity to build smart, deliberately-planned community neighborhoods -- establishing community-based construction companies where unemployed, homeless and displaced refugees provide as much of the work themselves as they can, with training provided so folks can learn as they work, using some of the best concept of Habitat for Humanity, such as sweat-equity and low-interest loans, building homes that people WANT to live in and raise their families, the opposite of mass public-housing tenements and 'projects' where no one actually OWNS anything and so there's no sense of pride or community.<br><br>Fuck's sAke -- People are smart enough to know what their interests are if they could just be given a hand over the rough parts.<br><br>The post-Katrina 'management' and reconstruction and relocation and support services have shown the absolute WORST aspects of fossilized special-interest thinking -- it's the ugly underside of the fake pride and cleverness and substanceless-posturing that has replaced people's faith in the inherant dignity and goodness of their nation and themselves -- the poison of hate and corruption and lies couldn't be kept away from its source even tho our 'leaders' built walls of words and wars to kill the poison before it could return.<br><br>I'm beginning to think that for the most part my fellow countrymen are just too stupid and cowardly and lazy to be worth helping or encouraging -- they've apparently 'bought' the lesson that they're not even worthy of their own self-respect -- While they suspect they're being lied to by 'officials' they minimize their dull-witted ignorance and lack of courage in not taking a stand on principle by telling themself it wouldn't really make any difference.<br><br>People who expect little from themselves can hardly expect to be heard when they demand accountability from others.<br>Starman <p></p><i></i>
