[StBernard] debris vs. getting dumped on..

[Westley Annis]

What we'd like to see is MURPHY picking up the bill for allowing many in the
spill zone to stay clear of ad nauseum of the oil spill area cleanup,
henceforth missing a chance to have the homes gutted without charge by
groups, etc. Now, the chances are slim to none to get handled in any
foreseen future knowing deadlines have been mastered, etc. and time allowed
to surpass our window of opportunity. At this point, many of us are between
the proverbial "rock and hard place" and as time marches on, ---so do our
hopes of survival in any reasonable sense. Why does everything always need
an "anniversary date" to prove we can't make logical decisions on our own?
Since this is an unmatched, unprecedented event, what we really need (in a
hopeful sense) is time to heal, emotionally and financially. If God can give
most of us, time to repent, why is it that state/local/fed. Governments
believe they cannot follow his act and give us time to heal?

Leaders? I've seen better performers in our churches and organizations
around the parish, state, and country. NOW, those people can REALLY show us
how to run things in a non-comedic manner. They use volunteers and STILL
they get the job done because they use delegation, self-motivation, the
charm of volunteerism, --each stepping up to the plate without any sense of
"control-freakism", and because they run an organization better than a
business or government, you can bet when each say I'll do this as
self-pleasure because it helps communities prosper, they eliminate a
paid-employee's grudge work--simply because the voluntter's devotion to
helping lets him/her know that they will have achieved satisfaction of a job
well done. It's the significent difference between losing a job and losing
self-respect.

So, Murphy and other powers get to dump on us on numerous occasions. First
from a spill, then as left-me-outs in regards to citizens who were always
told that industry pardnered with community citizens--until there's a legal
matter, that is.

--jer--


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This past weekend,  Murphy's contractor, I assume, picked up the debris that
I and John Richardson have been complaining about. Thanks to any and all who
interceded behind the scenes because they picked up the debris that was
months old, as well as a week old. Perhaps Murphy or their debris contractor
is reading da parish.com postings. In any case, keep coming, there's plenty
more fresh gutted debris in the oil spill area.

Deborah Keller