Despite the Other half (1/2)

i heard what should be a relatively intelligent financial investment professional say that he did not want to help out (speaking of the stimulus bill) folks who made a bad decision or who cannot afford a house as big as the the one they live in to receive help to make up for their mistake. Nevermind that helping that person would help the nation, a reality this same supposedly intelligent financial investment professional admitted in his next breath of air, stating that the current crisis began with housing and would not be over until housing recovered. so, which is it? You want to punish the jerk who bought the wrong home for the wrong price, at the urging of compaines who were making life good for relatively intelligent financial investment professionals or you want to help restore the economy so we all can have a better life?

About 1/2 the country - the Republicans and Republican sympathizers - does not not want to help the nation recover because they want to punish the democrats for being so disrespectful in calling the last 8 years of Republican rule a disaster. So, with the country living through an economic nightmare, with a president who actually thinks we can do something about it and has asked us all to pull the same way on the rope, the other 1/2 says no. we are not going to pull the same direction. We might even (Rush Limbaugh included) pull in the opposite direction hoping the nation descends further into hell just to prove that the Democrats are as bad or worse than we are. billiant strategy! Very helpful! Really appreciate the concern you have for those with whom you share the planet. This must be compassionate conservatism at work.

now someone is ready to say...Yeh! But what about the democrats the last eight years; they were pulling the other way against Bush. True... I would just say that there is a difference between trying to prevent someone from drowning the nation and trying to save the person who is about to drown.

Despite the other half (1/2) the rest of us are beginning to pull together in the same direction - proposing actual solutions, seeking to care for those who are hurt the most, trying to figure out some creative ways to address our common problems - and we will right the ship and set it on its way. And you know what, the other 1/2 who supported all the leaders who tried to drown us and who now want to do nothing to help the ones who are drowning; they don't deserve the economic recovery that is coming our way due to pulling together, but they will benefit from it along with the rest of us. I think this falls under the Scriptural explanation of reality: "The rain falls on the good and the evil, just the same."

Just when you could hope that it was true, this previous talk about "them" and "us" (i.e. "we" get the economic recovery and "they" go further into hell), it will be proved, once again, that in fact, we are all in the same boat (ie. we all get the economic recovery). But, come on God, couldn't we just throw a few overboard?