Friday, September 02, 2005
Monetary Tipping Point
If you are seperated by Six Degrees or less with someone in coastal Louisiana or Mississippi, you should, of course, send money and any other assistance directly to that person or those people.
If you need more than Six Degrees to make a connection with the folks struggling to recover from Katrina
AND
you are frustrated, appalled, and/or out-of-breath angry at how things are not progressing positively down in MS and LA, you are at a monetary tipping point.
Get a piece of paper. That envelope you just threw out that had held your monthly utility bill will do.
Get a pen, pencil, or borrow T.O.'s Sharpie.
Now, regardless of whether you lean toward the Republicans, the Democrats, or to a (pick your own here) Third Party, think of the money you were planning of sending that political party this year.
Write that amount down on the paper.
This money.
Will is be spent wisely?
Will it even benefit one person, even yourself?
Will it make any difference?
Honestly, now.
If your answer is, "No, it won't make a difference.", please step over here for a moment.
If your answer is, "It may make a difference.", please consider those questions again. Then once again. If your answer slips from a "Maybe" to a "No", please join your colleague from the previous paragraph, right here. Thanks for reconsidering your answer.
If your answer is, "Yes, my political contribution will make a difference (mainly for myself, actually)." AND re-reading the questions will not sway you in any possible way, there's a seat available for you at the President's Energy Board Committee. PLease feel free to engorge yourself.
For the "No"'s, turn that potential political contribution into something that will make a difference. Turn it into a charitable contribution for relief to the folks down in Louisiana and Mississippi. Click on:
or, as Whisky Prajer suggests, to those "thrifty Mennonites" at Mennonite Disaster Services.
Look at the amount you've scribbled on your envelope. Please make that amount your contribution.
This is the year when the political contribution should become solely the Hurricane Katrina Relief contribution.
If you need more than Six Degrees to make a connection with the folks struggling to recover from Katrina
AND
you are frustrated, appalled, and/or out-of-breath angry at how things are not progressing positively down in MS and LA, you are at a monetary tipping point.
Get a piece of paper. That envelope you just threw out that had held your monthly utility bill will do.
Get a pen, pencil, or borrow T.O.'s Sharpie.
Now, regardless of whether you lean toward the Republicans, the Democrats, or to a (pick your own here) Third Party, think of the money you were planning of sending that political party this year.
Write that amount down on the paper.
This money.
Will is be spent wisely?
Will it even benefit one person, even yourself?
Will it make any difference?
Honestly, now.
If your answer is, "No, it won't make a difference.", please step over here for a moment.
If your answer is, "It may make a difference.", please consider those questions again. Then once again. If your answer slips from a "Maybe" to a "No", please join your colleague from the previous paragraph, right here. Thanks for reconsidering your answer.
If your answer is, "Yes, my political contribution will make a difference (mainly for myself, actually)." AND re-reading the questions will not sway you in any possible way, there's a seat available for you at the President's Energy Board Committee. PLease feel free to engorge yourself.
For the "No"'s, turn that potential political contribution into something that will make a difference. Turn it into a charitable contribution for relief to the folks down in Louisiana and Mississippi. Click on:
or, as Whisky Prajer suggests, to those "thrifty Mennonites" at Mennonite Disaster Services.
Look at the amount you've scribbled on your envelope. Please make that amount your contribution.
This is the year when the political contribution should become solely the Hurricane Katrina Relief contribution.
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