Life under GWB

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Stop acting the librarian and talk to people, better yet shut up and listen to people, outside your social circle.

How does one talk to people outside one's social circle, Bruce? What? Should I go to an upscale neighborhood and start knocking on doors and invite whoever answers to have an informal rap session with me? As a matter of fact, I do have an acquaintance who is a millionaire. She mostly talked about her problems finding a good nanny and how her husband refused to accomodate his work schedule to her afternoon jogging routine. Pretty shallow, all in all, but I'd hardly extrapolate from her to millionaire's in general. I'm sure that some have found excellent nannies for their children.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Cites? Do you see one thing in that entire post that's stated as anything other than opinion from personal experience? One stated "fact"?

Well, I don't know what post you are thinking of, but my question was in direct responses to this:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Ladies please, compare the attitudes of the guy making $50k to the guy making $300k. Or the guy with real clout making a million.

I'm sorry my social circle isn't wide enough for your liking, Bruce. I have the one millionaire passing acquaintance; I know a number of people whose income is probably around $50K, and, offhand, I can't think of anyone I know to really speak to in the $300K bracket. Maybe you'd like to invite me to your next poker party, so I can broaden my horizons.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Do you hear a hew and cry from ANY economic strata other than the environmentalists that make it their preoccupation if not occupation?
GWB has given us plenty of serious shit to worry about, very scary stuff, and the bunnies have taken a back seat.
Like it or not that's reality....or should I say priority.

Way back a thousand posts ago, this was my answer to the the question in the OP:

We have lost civil liberties, environmental safeguards have been cut back or discarded completely, spending on the country's infra-structure has been disregarded in favor of spending on an unneccessary foreign war that takes more American and other human lives every day, fewer people have access to medical care, more children are homeless - the list goes on ad nauseum.

I agree that this country faces many grave issues of which the environment is only one, and that environmental concerns may not be as much a priority to other people as they are to me. I picked environment out of the list as an example of something that people on "entitlements" probably wouldn't be so concerned about - that's all.

I am more worried about the war in Iraq, the economy, and the loss of civil liberties than I am the environment, anyhow. I think things won't go to hell environmentally for another 30 -50 years, at which point, I'll most likely be dead and buried, and since I don't have any children, my concern for the environment is rather abstract, at best.

I leave it to the young 'uns to worry about the bunnies coming home to roost.