Got this from several friends at the place I used to work.
Worth a read.
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This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part
of North Dakota state after the recent snow storm.
>>
>> WEATHER BULLETIN
>>
>> Up here in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from an historic
event ---may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions"
--- with an historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to
90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded
hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated
scores of communities and cut power to tens of thousands.
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>> F Y I:
>> George Bush did not come....
>> FEMA did nothing....
>> No one howled for the government...
>> No one blamed the government
>> No one even uttered an expletive on TV...
>> Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit...
>> Our Mayors did not blame Bush or anyone else...
>> Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else either...
>> CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or report on this
Category 5 snowstorm...
>> Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....
>> No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House....
>> No one looted...
>> Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something....
>> We put on extra layers of clothes because, up here, it is "Work or Die"...
>> We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us
out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that
trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.
>> Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen
this early...we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
>> "In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of
about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of most of the world's social
problems evaporate." It does seem that way, at least to me.
>> I hope this gets passed on. Maybe, SOME people will get the message.
........The world does not owe you a living.......
--
Collins Richey
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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