My question is sincere but i wanted to add this article .
>THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT.
>
>North Dakota News
>This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part
of
>North Dakota state after a snowstorm.
>
>WEATHER BULLETIN
>
>Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic
event—
>may I even say a “Weather Event” of “Biblical Proportions” — with a
>historic blizzard of up to 44″ inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that
>broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of
>motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of
>communities and cut power to 10′s of thousands.
>
>FYI:
>
>George Bush did not come.
>
>FEMA did nothing.
>
>No one howled for the government.
>
>No one blamed the government.
>
>No one even uttered an expletive on TV .
>
>Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
>
>Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
>
>Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
>
>CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit – or report on this category 5
>snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
>
>No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
>
>No one looted.
>
>Nobody – I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
>
>Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
>
>No Larry King, No Bill O’Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No
Geraldo
>Rivera.
>
>No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.
>
>Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
>
>Sent out caravans of SUV’s to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
>
>The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn’t ask for a
>penny.
>
>Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments
delivered
>it to the snowbound families.
>Families took in the stranded people – total strangers.
>
>We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman
lanterns.
>
>We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is “Work or Die”.
>
>We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out
of a
>mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades
votes
>for ‘sit-in at home’ checks.
>
>Even though a Category “5″ blizzard of this scale has never fallen
this
>early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
>
>”In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about
48
>degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world’s social problems evaporate.”
>
>It does seem that way, at least to me.
>
>I hope this gets passed on.
>
>Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a
>living.
>
>
