tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post4542730019668024571..comments2024-03-26T15:30:39.733-07:00Comments on Rainy Day Thoughts: Caretaker or destroyerRain Trueaxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-87866982980232752372013-02-15T11:41:18.279-08:002013-02-15T11:41:18.279-08:00So true, Ashleigh and Tara.
And that is a good p...So true, Ashleigh and Tara. <br /><br />And that is a good poem, Hattie. It fits well with my topic for tomorrow on dichotomy. Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-63779880946353250282013-02-15T11:28:52.646-08:002013-02-15T11:28:52.646-08:00Not really to the point, but I was reminded of Eme...Not really to the point, but I was reminded of Emerson's poem, Brahma.<br />http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175138Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02621439195920479957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-69155408518719337192013-02-15T10:58:50.829-08:002013-02-15T10:58:50.829-08:00Drones save our soldiers - I have a hard time gett...Drones save our soldiers - I have a hard time getting past that. We do treat war so cavalierly; I am not sure drones will keep the boys from insisting that we need to go over there and do something... where ever "there" happens to be. Like Taradharma, I started a post but couldn't go anywhere with it.<br /><br />Caretaking... nurturing... moving beasties off the road... you have a good soul, a reflective character, and always give me something to think about.<br /><br />We saw a Stealth Bomber years ago at the Chicago Air and Water Show. One minute the sky was clear, the next it was filled with the scariest flying thing ever. VERY glad they are on our side :)<br />a/bAshleigh Burroughshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05790757220725900941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-4470888746456372772013-02-11T13:10:56.336-08:002013-02-11T13:10:56.336-08:00I've been pondering the use of drones a lot la...I've been pondering the use of drones a lot lately as well. I started a post about it, but realized I was completely out of my depth. War is ugly, no matter by drone, guns, tanks, bombs. All kill people without benefit of jury or judge. If the use of drones can target 'the bad guys' and do it with little or no collateral damage, great. But from what I've read there is an enormous number of innocents who die from drone attacks. Similarly, innocents die from attacks by other war weaponry as well. A difficult subject, for sure.Taradharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665801586196931603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-10133736474800937082013-02-10T16:55:39.613-08:002013-02-10T16:55:39.613-08:00I agree, Dick. That's why the word caretaking ...I agree, Dick. That's why the word caretaking has to be thought about in terms of what really helps. If it keeps someone dependent or as I happen to know with some friends, where it came to unemployment recently, not caring to find work until it ran out, real care taking is the ticket.Rain Trueaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07994628226501093880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-11201056078908710912013-02-10T15:27:22.290-08:002013-02-10T15:27:22.290-08:00I think there is some risk of a caretaker going to...I think there is some risk of a caretaker going too far to protect and ending up destroying the initiative of the person they are trying to help. This I think is the big risk of too much welfare or it running too long. It is especially bad when it gets to the point where the benefit exceeds what an uneducated or poorly educated worker can hope to earn on his/her own with a job- no incentive to go to work.<br /><br />My brother retired from the welfare department and told me years ago that our present system was setup based on a system setup in the South to help seasonal farm workers during the time of the year when there was little or no farm work. The program had no built in incentives to find work as those it benefited had jobs, they just had to wait for the growing season to return. It actually sounds more like a modern unemployment benefit but without the back to work incentives one finds in most of those programs.<br /><br />I realize this is a small part of what Rain is referring to in this post but it is a big issue on the political scene in our country.Dickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12381970360203140143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22918248.post-49959457137569407742013-02-09T08:00:57.256-08:002013-02-09T08:00:57.256-08:00Rain's post reveals that closely related to h...Rain's post reveals that closely related to her caretaker/destroyer classification of people is the propaganda of destroyers to cloth themselves as caretakers. Great post!Diane Widler Wenzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05270246393901276648noreply@blogger.com