What we are witnessing on either side of the Channel is the double whammy of a debt-ridden public sector making cuts wherever it can and a bonus-addicted private sector making cuts wherever it’s profitable — with the resultant disaster foisted on a general public now so cowed and coddled and fearful and risk-averse in the age of terror and technology that an inch or two of snow sends everyone into a blind panic.
And then there was this, at the end of the piece that frequently made me LOL.
It’s the age of pass-the-buck, blame-anybody-but-yourself technology-induced, pasty-faced, initiative-starved helplessness in a Europe that’s forgotten what a shovel looks like.
I must admit, that made me stop laughing.
Now that is just a place I do not want to go, a place in which I do not want to live, and a mindset that I want nothing to do with. I want to live in a country where there are always people ready to take initiative and pick up the shovel.
I think I live in that kind of country. I think. I pray.
3 comments:
Dear the Observer,
Yes!!!! I worry about this too. Now going to read the article--and I may be back!!
Ann T.
T.O.:
ANd I think we're very close to being on the SAME page today.
Stay safe out there.
Ann and Bob:
Many times I was laughing and enjoying Cohen's word play but his conclusion was a frightening thing. I believe we are a different place than Europe, but it still is a scary scary thought of where we could end up.
A wake up call for those with ears to hear!
The Observer
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