No doubt we all remember those sayings from our childhood: Look before you Leap, Don't bite off more than you can chew, Stop chewing your cabbage twice, etc. etc. They were meant to teach how to be cautious. Not to take on too much because it would only lead to disaster.

Well apparently our elected officials never got that message. Both at the Federal, State and Local level our elected politicians are trying to fix everything and in the process not only not fixing anything but making matters worse. What is wrong with picking something that can be fixed fairly easily, that is a relative term, fixing it and then moving on to the next item. Is it so wrong to be known for doing something right and as promised rather than doing everything wrong and not living up to any promise?

Right now all of our elected officials are running around like frightened chickens pecking at everything they see without really accomplishing anything. Everytime someone criticizes them for not looking over there, they run over there and peck at it until someone else cries foul and then they run to that problem and peck at that one for a while. Nothing ever gets completed, except maybe now the Dash stadium, and no one is happy, except for Billy Prim.

A lot of our problems are critical. My feeling is you fix the infrastructure first, roads, schools, fire, police. After that you look at what is left. Fixing the roads, building new or refurbishing the old schools will create jobs. Paying our teachers, police and firemen a decent wage will hopefully encourage qualified individuals to apply for positions in those fields.

Perhaps I am coming from a different time when priorities began at home and not elsewhere. You took care of your own and then you helped strangers. Funny but it worked back then. You would think with all the technology and advances that have come about since then, it would work even better now.

Perhaps it's because we have changed. We no longer look after our own but ourselves. We no longer care what happens to our extended families, our neighbors but ourselves. I will get mine first and after that it is everyone for himself.

How sad.