What Have We Lost In the Recession?
I just flew East to visit a Vedic scholar from Vrindavan, India who is teaching a summer session at Rutgers. He’s a friend, and I asked him how he found the United States on this visit compared to his previous visits.
“Stressed,” he said. “The whole country is stressed. My students are all stressed. Everyone watches the news and is stressed. But why should you all be stressed? America has plenty of land and very few people and enough resources to grow its own food. What have you really lost?”
What have we lost? On the airplane back from New Jersey to San Francisco I listened to the latest podcast of Bill Moyers’ Journal. In it, two very knowledgeable experts, a health journalist and a physician, agree that Obama might not get a health care reform bill passed into law, but that even if he does get a piece of legislation out of all this political wrangling and lobbying, it won’t do any good, because the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance industry will have gutted it with their constellations of lobbyists. He will have gone down to inevitable defeat trying to preserve his political future rather than his ethical priorities.
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Great thinking. I thought the new administration was supposed to bring change but it appears it brought the same politics but just with another brand.
Integrity starts with the individual (each of us) and can come from no where else. Unfortunately integrity isn't held in high regard by our supposed leaders these days and the people see the bad example and learn to go along to get along.