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Re: Something Else Is Missing
Author: OldPoleBurner
Date: 04-16-2011 - 10:02
I too can understand Drew's reluctance to help out the perennial losers that run the State of Confusion, er, a, I mean, State of California. If it won't "Buy" votes from the gullible voters at the bottom of the bell curve, they generally tend to hold it back - for a ransom paid by the taxpayers!
They constantly threaten to NOT do what the great middle class wants - the state's most basic of all duties (civil protection - thus perennially firing police and firemen), unless the people gullibly agree to keep on raising taxes, year after year. I too an disgusted by that - I do get it.
But jeez, Drew! We're lucky to have any state support at all, for a museum of any quality, or anything truly educational for that matter. With or without that state support, virtually any worthwhile civic institution, such as CSRM, deserves voluntary support; especially from those with the skills, the interest, and the needed physical agility, to actually do the job.
Granted, you want to keep gov't small, and out of our private lives as much as possible. But to accomplish that, and still have the civic wealth that we now have, it will require a civic minded effort by all of us to do our part, freely and voluntarily, according to our own interests and abilities. I wish I still had that physical ability - I would have retired a long time ago and devoted myself "to the cause".
That sir - would be "Freedom" indeed! At its best! I am indeed old enough to remember an America like that - and so are you. Or perhaps San Jose had already lost it by then - I don't know. But my Idealism (I never lost it) says we all ought to do all we can to bring it back - never mind the politics - with or without the state's support.
As the last of the great private Industrialists, Henry J. Kaiser, is quoted as saying, "Find a need - and fill it". If you can plainly see that CSRM needs more help. . . . .
OPB
PS.-- If we do not freely volunteer our time, we will loose these civic institutions. As ought to be plainly obvious by now, no gov't is ever going to be reliable enough to depend on, for much of anything. And if volunteerism is also not reliable enough, then perhaps we the people just don't deserve, what we will not be getting anyway!
They constantly threaten to NOT do what the great middle class wants - the state's most basic of all duties (civil protection - thus perennially firing police and firemen), unless the people gullibly agree to keep on raising taxes, year after year. I too an disgusted by that - I do get it.
But jeez, Drew! We're lucky to have any state support at all, for a museum of any quality, or anything truly educational for that matter. With or without that state support, virtually any worthwhile civic institution, such as CSRM, deserves voluntary support; especially from those with the skills, the interest, and the needed physical agility, to actually do the job.
Granted, you want to keep gov't small, and out of our private lives as much as possible. But to accomplish that, and still have the civic wealth that we now have, it will require a civic minded effort by all of us to do our part, freely and voluntarily, according to our own interests and abilities. I wish I still had that physical ability - I would have retired a long time ago and devoted myself "to the cause".
That sir - would be "Freedom" indeed! At its best! I am indeed old enough to remember an America like that - and so are you. Or perhaps San Jose had already lost it by then - I don't know. But my Idealism (I never lost it) says we all ought to do all we can to bring it back - never mind the politics - with or without the state's support.
As the last of the great private Industrialists, Henry J. Kaiser, is quoted as saying, "Find a need - and fill it". If you can plainly see that CSRM needs more help. . . . .
OPB
PS.-- If we do not freely volunteer our time, we will loose these civic institutions. As ought to be plainly obvious by now, no gov't is ever going to be reliable enough to depend on, for much of anything. And if volunteerism is also not reliable enough, then perhaps we the people just don't deserve, what we will not be getting anyway!
