If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. - Anthony J. D’Angelo
So what how far does our complaining take us? In the most recent weeks we have found many things to gripe such as the way the country is run, the environment, the weather, the cost of living, the health service etc.
Who is listening? The complaints make great copy for the editorials in the various newspapers across the land and also make great subjects for me to write about but while we may read and think “yeah, that is an outrage something must be done” we turn the page or put down the newspaper and do little or nothing about it.
Yes there are groups that want to make a change for the right reasons but there are also people who join these groups just to cause problems of a physical nature. It is nearly guaranteed that if you organise a mass rally in the city centre that there will be a minority that will just show up to look for a fight.
Automatically the group is singled out as problematic and thus not credible, “How can you even attempt to convince us about making a change to the way things are run when you cannot even control your own supporters?”
We will do what we always do, ignore the pleas and cries for help. We elected a government that does just that so why should its voters be any different? Why has it taken 6 months of wading through the laser light show that is a Fianna Fail campaign to find that the shiny prize that attracted people to vote for them was nothing more then a dull old stick, capable of only being thrown to the distance while the dog (the voters) chase it to find that it was not worth the effort?
We can ask the same old questions like ‘where are the extra 2,000 gardaí or extra teachers?’, receive the standard answer which will not confirm or deny anything and still be told “ by the way, tighten your belts”. Not exactly the next steps forward is it?
So as I say I wonder who is really listening to the many cries that emanate from the people around the world? We are told that all of our prayers are heard but sometimes the answer to them is no, I can understand that. As Mick Jagger once sang, “You can’t always get what you want”. The majority of the country got what they wanted when they voted in Fianna Fail but have now had second thoughts and found that what they wanted then is not what they wanted now.
Thursday, December 6th, 2007 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.
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