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2ndHandLion prompted this
I am not sure we know what common sense is any more.
We have the rich building on barrier islands that are nothing more than shifting sand.
We will spend billions rebuilding the rich homes on shifting sand. Yet a critical port for the Midwest, south and central US, NO, we don't want to protect, nor will we rebuild properly? Did no one take economics 101 at college? Where does the economic wealth really come from?
For example: despite the conservative republican back patting the cold war was not won by Reagan’s rhetoric or saber rattling. Gobachev writes he realized the fight was lost when he was agricultural minister and visited Eugene Whelan, Canada’s agriculture minister’s farm in Ontario. Gobachev knew that a countries wealth ultimately originate from the productivity of it’s farmers. When he saw the west’s farms he new it was lost. So friendship and hospitality of the farmer turned the man's mind.
We can not do without the port of New Orleans and the efficient transport of products to and from the country or the productivity of the Midwest farms would be pointless.
We can do without the rich building along the beach. Personally I would appreciate being able to walk around the beach unfettered with only the birds and other beach lovers. Is leaving these shifting sands to the birds such a bad idea?
If we follow history only once has a nation turned itself around, from decline to greatness. In this case one man started a reformation by riding around on a horse. He did this for 50 years. Turning one life at a time. He carried no weapons and faced many hardships. But then he was following God not man.
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2ndHandLion prompted this
It is the difference between rebuild and rebuilt right. The Netherlands has spent large amounts of money developing and redeveloping areas for flood prevention. It has taken federal resolve and capital to accomplish the level of protection they have.
Here the development is authorized and then each government has its 4 year program life or rather 3 year as the last year is spent campaigning . Or more precisely 2.5 years as ½ the year is spent on the midterm elections. These types of projects take many more years to complete. What happened to the levee plan passed 40 years ago?
How do you think foreign nations view our bazaar flip flop politics and agendas? Reverting back to Gorbachev, when asked to go and meet with Reagan, he said “Why would he meet with someone that thinks of us as the axis of evil?” Someone had to explain to him that it was just American political grandstanding in an election year. Unfortunately most Americans are not astute enough to realize when the BS is being thrown. The media has taken the sound bites and feed it continually to us until we think of it as truth. Personally I despise the media spin left or right.
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