The Management Consulting Group

“I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” (From the movie NETWORK)

The following questions are questions that need answering. Are there answers to
them? We must remain optimistic and vigilant if there are to be. These are just a few
topics. There are many more, some more important and some less, based on a
person’s beliefs and attitudes. I present them, as a reference and a starting point for
discussion

Guns? Why is it so difficult to do what is best for society, not for our liberties? If the
second amendment says we can possess guns, shouldn’t we be expected to abide
by that? Can’t we, better yet, understand the law and realize that people want to,
and have a constitutional right to, defend themselves and hunt for food? Wouldn’t it
make more sense if we allow anyone over 18 (since they can vote and defend us) to
own a pistol for their residences, and/or a rifle for hunting, as long as they have
never been guilty of a felony? Since semi-automatics are in most offensive cases
used for mass killing, shouldn’t there be a law that says it is illegal (as illegal as in
distributing drugs) to manufacture any type of machine gun or automatic or semi
automatic weaponry, or to own one, or have one in their possession, except for law
enforcement personnel? Can’t we all be logical and practical, law-abiding, and
compromising at the same time?

Why would a president, considered by many to be one of our most brilliant, be
impeached for lying to Congress (to save his marriage), when our present president
lied to the American people about weapons of mass destruction, and then lied that
we were there to take out Saddam Hussein, yet we are still there? Why isn’t this man,
who is driving the American people into a debt of half a trillion dollars in Iraq and
Afghanistan (which could be used to rebuild New Orleans, house the homeless, take
care of the infirmed, and feed the poor), being allowed to send thousands of our
children to their deaths while, at the same time, killing tens of thousands of
innocent Iraqi men, women, and children? Why aren’t his lies, deceit, and actions
impeachable? Is it because his party controls our Congress? And why does America
feel it has the right to force democracy upon other countries? How can we expect to
change other people’s way of living when their beliefs have been inbred and
practiced for thousands of years? Should we remove despots and dictators? Yes, but
aren’t we just taking over countries when we force them to copy our government
and live as we do because it’s what we think is best for them? What is America going
to do now that we have now alienated many of our western hemisphere neighbors?
With the middle east and many parts of the orient against United States policy, what
will our president do now that Bolivia has elected a leader who vows to be
‘America’s nightmare,’ and counts among his friends U.S. critics Cuba’s Fidel Castro
and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, along with leftists in Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay?
How much longer before it’s us against them?

Can someone tell me why we are trying to rid the world of WMAs, but we’re fighting
in a country where there are none, and next to a country (Iran) that says they are
building one? A county whose president broadcast that the Holocaust was a myth
and that Israel should be bombed off the face of the Earth? Why is our president not
doing what he promised the world to do: rid the world of weapons of mass
destruction? Why are we in a war in Iraq when we should be in Iran and N. Korea,
and, as we were led to believe, in every country with weapons of mass destruction?

Why are we so worried about Communism and won’t speak with our neighbor
(Cuba) as friends of different governmental beliefs? Why should we punish the
innocent Cubans with our embargoes against them, as the majority of Cubans
seems to find it quite livable? Is genocide taking place there, civil atrocities?
Horrifically, why would our president turn down the thousands of doctors Cuba
offered to send to aid in Hurricane Katrina? How many more lives could have been
saved? Isn’t it true that we should not fight communism any longer, rather accept it,
since China has one billion more people than the United States? Doesn’t big fish eat
little fish? Shouldn’t America be in Africa helping crush the genocides and teaching
these countries to become self reliant and self sufficient so that this will never
happen again? Shouldn’t America and the world, together, take the responsibility of
creating new civilizations, with schools and hospitals and courts, and a government,
not destroy ones that have existed for thousands of years?

Why has it become so difficult to smile at people, to help people, to forgive people,
to offer a compliment, to say pardon me, please, and thank you, to be a kind
person? Isn’t it easier to be nice than mean? Doesn’t it make for a happier world
when people are polite, considerate, and thoughtful? Do people ever wonder why it
isn’t this way everywhere for all people, no matter their color, gender, age, religion,
beliefs, and practices? Will we ever learn? Can’t we all “do the right thing,” as Spike
Lee wrote in his movie?

To survive in the best of all possible worlds we must all work together as one family.
If we want to change and be a better people, a far better world, we must first be
willing to change and act upon it. If you have questions or topics that you feel
should be addressed, please email the author, Bruce Schwartz, at
www.parkavenuepress@hotmail.com. The publisher has the discretion whether to
print your comments

[Bruce Schwartz is the author of the #1 bestselling novel THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
(http://www.thetwentyfirstcentury.com), which deals with race relations in America and a
government conspiracy seven days before the presidential election. He is presently
working on the movie version of his novel.]