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Q. Why strategies put in place by
the White House and/or Congress fail?
A. Because there’s nothing
more powerful than the truth. So if you build a strategy coming from a state of
consciousness which is steeped in hypocrisy, fraud, deceit,
and lies... that strategy will have been built on pillars of
sand. Why is that so difficult to understand? Why
do we think we can cheat and lie and be a traitor to life and get away with it?
Q. What strategy or strategies
am I talking about?
A. Any of them… all of them.
This is a lesson that mankind
just refuses to understand: In the absence of intellectual
integrity and goodwill, our actions will almost always end up
producing perilous, counterproductive, unanticipated,
unintended consequences. We can avoid all that simply by
telling the truth and maintaining the highest levels of
intellectual integrity.
You would think that the
process of sending a man to the moon and bringing him back
safely would have taught us something: when you build
something with care, intelligence, and integrity, it has a
good chance of working… in fact, it’s the only thing that
we can consistently depend on to work as intended. Had we tried to build
a spacecraft, say… with the same amount of care and
integrity with which we are trying to design our healthcare system, we
would never have gotten to the moon and back. The space program required
that thousands of
people had to work together toward a common goal. They
demonstrated
that people working together can accomplish great
things. We have the talent, the imagination, and the
skill to do great things. All we need to do is make an
attempt to do great things. And why not. After all, our
healthcare system, for example, affects millions and millions
of people.
1. Our foreign policy in
general, is not founded on goodwill. It is founded on selfish
objectives, justified with lies and pretenses, such as…
trying to control oil and other resources while pretending we're up to
something else, trying to become or stay fabulously rich at the expense of
honor, decency and other people; trying to dominate others and undermining their best efforts to succeed… and almost always we seem to do
this in a very
ruthless, hypocritical manner, and without compassion.
We treat people that we don't understand as if they are not
worthy of dignity. But of course, they are. We all
are. Why
do we compete with utter ruthlessness when we could accomplish so much more by working
together for everyone's benefit? 2. Elected officials are not
loyal to their constituents or to their highest ideals. This
is why the tax code, the practice of law, the stewardship of
our natural resources, our social service and benefit
programs, our educational system, and most other programs are
so often skewed to benefit those who are already well off
rather than create a level playing field for everyone, so that
everyone has a chance to succeed. It is because those who are
well off don't see themselves as fiduciaries and stewards of honor and
goodwill for the benefit of others. But of course they
are. We all are. It is appropriate to be thankful and appreciative
of the
gifts God has given us. We show our appreciation by
honoring the best that is in us and being the best people we
can be.
Let's not make life more difficult
than it has to be. Please, read this.
http://www.gpln.com/onwork.htm
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