I agree with oc, blue and Pikes. How, you ask?

Well, I'm glad you ask, because I want to tell you.

 

It doesn't bode well, as Pikes post points out. We have become a nation of lazy, apathetic, "let the other man do it" people.

I don't expect that to last, tho. The op did end on a high note, citing how one great leader CAN change the winds of fate and motivate others to help.

 

IMO, it won't be us "old coots"(sorry oc) who foster and bring about that change. It will be the 20-40 yr olds who will wake up and smell the coffee. They have the energy and means to get active. I think they will. Not having a crystal ball, I don't know what it will take to do that. Hopefully, just the plummeting economic situation can. I don't want another attack or assissination. When that group of people are standing in  unemployment or bread lines, it could be enough. Where there is youth, energy and hope there are solutions. It won't happen fast and some of us here may not live to see the ultimate light at the end of the tunnel, but I think it will happen. We will be around to see the wheels turning.

 

I've always said that it takes the bad times to appreciate the good times. Let's look at these times as preparation for the glorious celebration when they too will pass and we are on the road to prosperity once again.