Reply #119: Thanks, calbluedem!

[Waiting For Everyman]

At this point, what I'm sensing is like the low rumble of a far-off approaching thunderstorm. Sort of like this...

"It's comin' from so far away it's hard to say for sure, whether what I hear is music, or the wind through an open door... there's a fire high in the empty sky where the sound meets the shore... there's a long distance loneliness rolling out over the desert floor... through every dead and living thing, time runs like a fuse, and the fuse is burnin' and the earth is turnin'... " (Jackson Browne, "The Fuse" 1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRa52kuyEsQ

If Obama sells us out in our time of emergency in this Stimulus Plan, so that nothing much about our jobs and homes improves from it, then that may be the end of our "window of opportunity" to salvage our situation - I hope that doesn't happen. People somehow endured through Bush, but now that he's gone something better than this corporatist nightmare has to begin. I hope the changes that are being worked on now give us reason to continue being patient until more can be done; but I also hope we don't continue being patient with more corporatism, without a reason.