What better way to accomplish something than to say, "hey, here is a plan that I have drafted that addresses issue X and that will cost Y amount of dollars to implement" to present to your representative in lieu of a protest? Wouldn't that be more productive than walking around with a sign chanting slogans?
It is a great thing to complain about what you don't like in an administration, it is quite another to show that you know what you are talking about by finding an alternate/better solution to a problem that has not been addressed. Those people who spend hours preparing for a protest (or the purple hearts and bandages to mock Kerry's military service) have wasted time without achieving anything other than notoriety. Let's face it, by now, a representative should already know what the feelings of his/her constituency, since we have been barraged by them through constant media coverage.
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:04 pm (UTC)What better way to accomplish something than to say, "hey, here is a plan that I have drafted that addresses issue X and that will cost Y amount of dollars to implement" to present to your representative in lieu of a protest? Wouldn't that be more productive than walking around with a sign chanting slogans?
It is a great thing to complain about what you don't like in an administration, it is quite another to show that you know what you are talking about by finding an alternate/better solution to a problem that has not been addressed. Those people who spend hours preparing for a protest (or the purple hearts and bandages to mock Kerry's military service) have wasted time without achieving anything other than notoriety. Let's face it, by now, a representative should already know what the feelings of his/her constituency, since we have been barraged by them through constant media coverage.