To All, Thanks to Reid Harvey who has expressed wonderful thoughts and sentiments so beautifully. America must change, and must take on the true role of world leader; it has not done so.
Well said, Mr. Harvey! JBB Reid Harvey wrote: > CS Enthusiasts, > I remember well that when I was a child my father, a clergyman, told me > that he would like to be around for the day of resurrection. Now he's 85 > and I believe he and others of us may just get that wish. It's a > horrific thing to see our planet going up in smoke, but after all, we're > all going anyway. > > I think that what a lot of folks in other, poorer countries love about > the U.S., and hate about the U.S. at the same time, is the capacity to > prosper while so many other places decay. But when we go we need to free > up our hearts and minds and let it all go. Forget about the nice home, > the environment, the hope that the future will be like the past. I > believe it was Francis of Assisi, who when asked what he would do if he > learned that he had only a few minutes or hours to live, said simply > that he would continue working in the garden. I thought about this this > morning when I gave my five year old a bath and read a book with him, > and this simple experience meant so much more. > > I remember hearing about a guy who saw World War II coming a few years > in advance and decided to move to a place he felt sure would be safe. He > moved to Guadalcannal. > > It seems that that the consumerism of America is no less at fault than > the hatred of the fanatic. Isn't it clear that a lot of dope pushers get > the impetus to deal in this profession from the what they see and TV? > It's possible round the clock to see how the other, richer half is > leading the good life, with cars and houses, all the trapping of > prosperity. Now the poor all over the world are seeing the same on cable > TV. > > It's a serious pity that the most powerful and prosperous nation on > earth is also the most miserly when it comes to development assistance > abroad. Ten years ago I had a chance to consult in Nicaragua with a > group of disabled war veterans there. They had recently gained a > contract from their government to supply $500,000.00 a year in low > tension, ceramic insulators, saving their country desperately needed > hard currency. Then Violetta Chamorro came into power, and the U.S. > entered with a big aid package. A small part of this aid included a > provision that Nicaragua would buy American made insulators, and the > disabled veterans were put right out of business. All this so that some > U.S. congressman or senator could throw a bone to an insulator factory > in his constituency, then Nicaragua would be paying with interest over > time. > > This miserliness in aid has uniquely characterized the U.S. approach for > many years, and I believe that now it is coming back to haunt us. I'm > not the best at living the bible, but now I remember the words written > in Proverbs: "Where there is no vision the people perish and the nation > wanes." > Reid > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] -or- [email protected] > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
