Subject: Fw: Denver News]
-------------- > THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT.
>
> Denver Post:
>
> This text is from a county emergency manager out
> in the central part of Colorado after todays
> snowstorm.
>
> WEATHER BULLETIN
>
> Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered
> from a Historic event--- may I even say a "Weather
> Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic
> blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90
> MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility
> poles, stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow
> banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of
> communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
>
> FYI:
>
> George Bush did not come.
>
> FEMA did nothing.
>
> No one howled for the government.
> < BR>> No one blamed the government.
>
> No one even uttered an expletive on TV .
>
> Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
>
> Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
>
> Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else,
> either.
>
> CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or
> report on this category 5 snowstorm. Nobody
> demanded $2,000 debit cards.
>
> No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
>
> No one looted.
>
> Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do
> something.
>
> Nobody expected the government to do anything,
> either.
>
> No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No
> Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
>
> No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood
> types to be found.
>
> Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
>
> Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of
> snow engulfed cars.
>
> The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks
> and didn't ask for a penny.
>
> Local restaurants made food and the police and
> fire departments delivered it to the snowbound
> families.
> Families took in the stranded people - total
> strangers.
>
> We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil
> lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
>
> We put on extra layers of clothes because up here
> it is "Work or Die".
>
> We did not wait for some affirmative action
> government to get us out of a mess created by being
> immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes
> for 'sittin at home' checks.
>
> Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale
> has never fallen this early, we know it can happen
> and how to deal with it ourselves.
>
> "In my many travels, I have noticed that once one
> gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90%
> of the world's social problems evaporate."
>
> It does seem that way, at least to me.
>
> I hope this gets passed on.
>
> Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world
> does Not owe you a living.
