Think about it. Quote of the day, by Bill Moyers

OK. Thought about it. Not a great way to start the day, though.

He forgot the Supreme Court appointments. No Child Left Behind. The dismal deficit.

words of wisdom from an intelligent, compassionate man.

Mostly untruths and innuendos from a great leftist and anti-Bush.

The only outing of a CIA agent was done by John Kerry on the Senate floor unless you want to count Joe Wilson's outing of his wife by listing her in Who's Who in America well before Joe Wilson wrote his oped piece. But Wilson's wife could not have been outed because she did not meet the requirements for being covered by the relevant law.

"Stopping stem cell research"??? Bush? He started government research. Besides,there are 9 private research centers all doing whatever they want. Talk about an gross untruth.

Katrina? The Feds are not responsible for handling hurricanes. It is a local and state function. FEMA exists to funnel federal monies to assist the state. The Democrat Mayor and the Democrat governor completely shirked their responsibilities and Bush gets the blame. Wow! The year before Katrina, 4 hurricanes passed within 60 miles of my Florida home. Some towns were almost wiped out. Was that the Feds fault? Did the locals and the state handle those situations with normal FEMA aid? Yes, Yes, a thousand times yes.

Fred, you should do some basic research before you blindly quote an extremist whose values permit him to mouth untruths to besmirch Bush.

Best regards, Ben
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"

Thank you Liz, KRC, Cheryl, mona, and Ben.

Liz: I too love Bill Moyers, and dislike arrogance!

I thought about it, and now I'm thinking of going back to Denmark!

Bill Moyers is God.

Ben, with all due respect:

You are a military man and we all thank you so much for serving our country.

If possible, please ask yourself:

Why are so many Veterans so poor, powerless, and homeless?

Why are Veteran's benefits being cut down to almost nothing?

Why do the poor parents of our poor soldiers have to pay, to buy some shabby BODY ARMOUR for the brave soldiers who need them so badly in a war zone?

Did W help one friend, the Exxon CEO make $ 500,000.000? ($500 Million Dollars!) In one year, and also help Exxon to profit $40,000,000,000. Dollars ($400 Billion, with a B) in one year?

Why is it that W has no money left for our brave and poor soldiers for their minimum bare basic needs, and why do the soldiers even have to pay for their own coffins!

To an open mind, W's actions speak very loudly.

W's behavior can only be explained if you allow these new assumptions.

W only believes in two main goals: Money and Power.

Please realize that W is really your worst enemy! But, you are refusing to acknowledge the truth to yourself.

It's so sad to watch you do everything in your power to empower your own worse enemy to destroy yourself!

Stop!!!! Don't follow W all the way off the cliff.

Please, re-think those false assumptions that are destroying you!

We thank you for risking your life in the military in order to serve all of us.

Thanks.

Thanks for sharing that, Fred. I've always liked Bill Moyers.

Thanks Marsha,


Bill Moyers is in the same league as America's beloved Walter Cronkite!

With all due respect, Fred.

I am well aware of the status of military pay and benefits. I was promised lifelong heathcare when I entered in 1953. When I retired thirty years later, no healthcare. We finally got started with some in 1996 after Republicans gained some control in Congress. It has improved since. Pay has improved greatly. Bush can't cut benefits just as he cannot cut or raise pay. These things are done by Congress. Bush only gets to sign the bills and to my knowledge he has only vetoed one.

Clinton downsized the military and spent very little energy trying to improve it. Bush took over and had to address a lot of very basic issues and had to build up the military. While the Dem leaders were voting against every major military system we used to cut through Saddam like butter, Republicans and some Dems got them authorized and funded.

As for the oil barons, I don't know of anything Bush has done to help them. I do know that liberals have stopped us from developing about 80% of our oil resources thus making us very dependent on foreign oil and driving up the price of gasoline. They have also pretty well stopped us from creating any new refineries, among other things.

If you want me to condemn oil company CEOs as being paid far too much, I will agree with you as long as you admit that they are just a few of very, very many CEOs who are paid way too much. Oil company profits are rather poor. They are no more than and often far less than 10% of revenues. Compared to 20-30% achieved by most companies, 10% is pretty poor. It is a lot more than it was when oil was $10 a barrel a few years back.

Although I am an independent and one who doesn't like a lot of things Bush does, from the military standpoint he has been a very welcome change to Clinton or to Bush I. Regular military morale is sky high inspite of the war and their reenlistment rates are likewise higher than ever.

If Bush is all for money and power as you contend, compared to Johnson who actually had those goals Bush doesn't match up. He has alienated a lot of people and stood firmly for what he believes inspite of adverse reactions and being unpopular. He does not do what the polls would require. His actions are almost the reverse of what one would do if one were interested in money and power.

Bush is attacked and attacked and attacked for almost everything he does, and yet he persists. That is conviction and commitment, not a quest for power and money. Look to other president's for being interested in money and power.

Best regards, Ben
Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"

Ben,
Unfortunately, the Military-Industrial-Complex propaganda machine has hopelessly overwhelmed your logical reasoning powers.

At this point you have mistakenly committed to a FALSE set of Convictions and Commitments.

Commitments to faulty assumptions can only bring you more and more unhappiness, until such moment that you allow your rational thinking to take over.
One plus one is still two, and not just anything that you wish it to be.

I am sorry to see that you are still insisting on reasoning with your emotions rather than your mind, a perfect recipe for more unexpected pain and disasters!

I wish you well.
Thanks,

You gave me a very good laugh, Fred.

I well remember a particular military contractor testifying against me before a sub-committee of the Senate Armed Services. That CEO wanted to get rid of me because I was trying to get his company to follow the specifications for building the USS Nimitz.

Thanks for that laugh, Ben

Author "Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed"

Keep laughing Ben, keep laughing.

In the meantime those of us who attempt to balance our appraisal of our current existance with emotion and reason, will find that there is is serious lack of love compassion, good will, and empathy in our midst. Bill Moyers simply happens to be an articulation of our profound desire to find new and better ways to relate to our world, ways that are not "governed" by fear, hate, and greed. Thanks Fred for reminding me of all that Bill Moyers means to me. And thank you Ben, for reminding me of all that he does not.

Well-said Perry. You are right, we do want new

"ways that are not "governed" by fear, hate, and greed."

But to Ben that might as well be in Greek!

Thank you Perry and Mark.