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Thunderbird; Since this your thread, it might be interesting to hear what you had in mind when offering it. To every administration, there is a very minor recreation, with the known knowledge any changes are subject to change in 4 or 8 years by the next. Add in the House can change every two years, there is not much time to change anything. Good ideas from past administration even some bad are still around and Bush's 'Faith Based Initiative' policy likely to be a good one.
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I believe the directional compass for real change comes from the people. History has shown that American society only progress from listening to the needs of the community. Policy makers that are in touch with this, or better yet lifted into power by these community based organizations are more apt to steer the country in directions that creates a conscious consensus for a positive direction and hope for the future. Powerful stuff.
On the opposite end of that scale is the worst case scenario for American society is for the leaders to create divisions between the needs of the community and the agendas of the powerful.
The Bush administration main agenda was not about the being in touch with the community, although the faith based initiatives I’ll have to admit worked much better than I expected, and should be expanded. However Bush’s neoconic paradigm of secrecy, torture, partisanship at home, unilateralism abroad, unrestricted free market based on pure greed aligned with tax breaks for the rich have been an utter disaster. The most offensive to me however is the deliberate trickling down of misinformation on an Orwellian scale in order to keep the public under control.
This type of government control has always existed to some extent but under Bush it has reached a level that could have tipped the power balance so for toward what can only be described as neo fascism.
I think we came very very close to a precipice that would have left America a third world economy with a police state mentality. All it would have taken is McCain to have been elected followed by a complete economic meltdown, or Palin taking office, and the inevitable terrorist attack that would have followed . Imagine Palin as president and 60% unemployment food riots, marshal law imposed , dogs and cats living together. He were heading down that road “My friends” Now however we can change coarse away from what would have been the dark age of division.
The election of Barak Obama...............hold..20 min later. Ok I’m back, Good example, I just got a call that an elderly lady needed a box spring and mattress so her husband could be released from the hospital. The woman had tried though Disabled Citizens they were not able to help her. She called *****, here at the Community Partnership. ***** is a Pentecostal pastor , ****** called My boss A liberal community coordinator. She called the a local Church, that stores donated items for the needy. My boss called me, I am the local Reentry coordinator that assist felons, but I happen to have a truck, I just got back after picking it up and deliver it to the very grateful nice lady. This cost the tax payer....well...nothing . Community and faith based organizations work well because they have little bureaucracy and address immediate needs directly . As a side project for the employees here at the office we have raised enough money though projects and charity auctions to buy Christmas presents for about 800 needy children. Obama chose to work in the Chicago community to learn how to address the needs of people. He could have easily taken a job in cooperate law but he chose instead to work in grass roots organizations. My kind of fellow.
America Needs Obama To Recreate Our National Narrative
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-r..._b_133340.html
