I wish I could take credit for this but I jacked it from another forum I visit. My hat's off to everyone in the midwest who is making the best of a bad situation, you have my utmost respect and sympathy.....

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Just a personal observation...as I watched the news coverage of the massive flooding in the Midwest with over 100 blocks of the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa under water, levees breaking, and the attention now turned downstream for when this massive amount of water hits the Mississippi, what amazed me is not what we saw, but what we didn't see...

1. We don't see looting.
2. We don't see street violence.
3. We don't see people sitting on their rooftops waiting for the government to come and save them.
4. We don't see people waiting on the government to do anything.
5. We don't see Hollywood organizing benefits to raise money for people to rebuild.
6. We don't see people blaming President Bush.
7. We don't see people ignoring evacuation orders.
8. We don't see people blaming a government conspiracy to blow up the levees as the reason some have not held.
9. We don't see the US Senators or the Governor of Iowa crying on TV.
10. We don't see the Mayors of any of these cities complaining about the lack of state or federal response.
11. We don't see or hear reports of the police going around confiscating personal firearms so only the criminal will be armed.
12. We don't see gangs of people going around and randomly shooting at the rescue workers.
13. You don't see some leaders in this country blaming the bad behavior of the Iowa flood victims on 'society' (of course there is no wide spread reports of lawlessness to require excuses).
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Must be a small-town midwest thing.

My Comments From: Tumbleshd 25 Jun 2008, 3:28 am good old farm country for ya, hard work, hard winters, all in the name of the good life. maybe all the coasters of this country could learn something. Have a great one!  "T" From: greybeard 24 Jun 2008, 3:41 pm well said and also a respect for themselves "respct is not given it is earned and to earn it you must be willing to give it" From: hdsd05 24 Jun 2008, 9:00 am I think the reason we don't see these things in Iowa or any other Midwestern town is that the people of these towns don't expect a hand out but a hand up. They understand the value of hard work and just do it. The last time I checked the government had nothing to do with the weather. Also there is a respect for others, for personal property and for our government.