The Sunday Knight - Short and Seismic

This week I wanted to talk about the health of America’s governing branches.  I wanted to explore the reasons and repercussions of the apparent merging of the legislative and executive branches.  I wanted to examine how this week’s health care summit has displayed the diminishing power of the legislative branch and the increasing power of the executive.  I wanted to focus solely on this reality, yet now after the earthquake in Chile the relationship between the executive and legislative seems less significant.  It still needs examining, but sometimes we need to focus on the reality and not the metaphor.  Washington may be ‘broken’, but there are plenty of places and people who are in much more dire straights.

At the end of the day, we can argue about health care all day long.  The Democrats can want to create government institutions to provide health care for American citizens, and the Republicans can favor completely restructuring the private sector to provide health care for Americans.  The sides will never agree, and the country will remain at an impasse until one side acts and angers the opposition.  At the end of the day one would hope that either side would decide to act based on good intentions instead as a result of negative events.

The destruction from the earthquake in Chile, and additionally from the less forceful yet more destructive earthquake in Haiti, should allow everyone to understand the necessity of supporting others in times of need.  Our hearts go out to those who have lost loved ones and watched their worlds crumble around them in these recent earthquakes, yet at some point people need to be able and willing to help others before total destruction has occurred.  Helping others in times of catastrophe is an admirable trait, yet equally as admirable but less celebrated is the act of helping others before the disaster strikes.

The poor infrastructure of Haiti compounded the results of the earthquake.  The mismanaged levees of New Orleans magnified the damage of Hurricane Katrina.  If anything all people should learn that managing problems before they are exacerbated by other events is to the benefit of everyone.  Proper management makes negative events less detrimental, and prevents them from getting worse.  At some point the American government should be able to care and act for the benefit of American citizens before a disaster has occurred, but sadly over the last decade we have show a near incapacity to act in this fashion.  Lets hope this changes in the near future.

Do not forget Haiti or Chile, and we all should acknowledge that destruction of this magnitude can happen to anyone in the blink of an eye.  We should care enough about others and ourselves to act in the right manner not only when disasters occur, but also during all facets of life.

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[Jim]

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