MAYBE!.

Just finished reading another good blog by my friend Harry -  http://harry2335.blogspot.com.

We're close in age - appear to have similar thoughts regarding life experiences - parental teachings - ethical and moral behavior - while admitting to one and all - that we're struggling with what's going on in this great country of ours.

Remember the joke about the patient who complained to his doctor about severe headaches resulting from hitting his head on the wall? The doctor's thoughtful prescription was "stop hitting your head".

Perhaps that's advice I need to follow if I wish to continue to write a blog which is often drawn from current events in this country; like what many of us witnessed on CNN last night.

So, should I stop writing a blog?

My concern is what happens if I - and many others - follow the unsought advice of people who advise us to simply turn off the TV when what is being broadcast we so often find offensive?

Of course, that means I'd have missed all those informative political ads paid for by PAC's who were financed primarily by big money - and whose right to do so were promulgated via Supreme Court decisions made by folks who were political appointees.

I'd also fail to experience the pleasure of being blitzed by attorney ads ad nauseum from folks who seem to be intent on convincing me they're running a Non-Profit who's only goal is to serve us as a Good Samaritan.
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Aha, got your attention, right?

Regardless as to whether you'd agree with that last paragraph - please tell me via email - or even a note tied to a rock and pitched through my closed kitchen
window - that you are  beginning to see the problem?

As previously inferred, this is a country so great that people are dying to get into it. Many of them have seen and lived with worse conditions than most of us.

The shame is too often the reaction to their plight is that those of us who got here legally - (like being birthed in Pittsburgh to documented parents)  act too often like a child fixated on grabbing their toy away from another child, despite the fact they have no interest nor intention of playing with it.

Unfortunately, this is particularly descriptive of those among us who when confronted with any interruption to their comfort levels via reports of political and financial corruption, employ a defense mechanism sounding vaquely familiar to that of a popular insurance company ad: "Well everybody knew that!"

Suggesting to others that the mere act of ''Recogniton" of a problem can be equated to that of arriving at a "Solution" to that same problem totally misses the point. Maybe you had to live through WW II to understand how devastating it can be to do nothing. 

Perhaps, that's why my friend Harry and I  - keep writing these blogs.

You'll have to ask him.

As for me, if I really had ALL the answers I'd take all those big sacks of money at my disposal and hire somebody else to write these !@#$%^ blogs.

Maybe!