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Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:15
PM
Subject: [MSAR] Getting it
together,looking at it from both sideds of the fence
It's like this folks, as long as you have a census and you continue to
ask if people are black, white or purple, professional or amatuer or
volunteer, you will continue to spur arguement because in any census you are
still having segregation and discrimination.
Seems to me that too often the personnel that are paid to do this
versus the volunteers that are not manage to equate that the people who are
UNPAID are a bunch of lacky amateurs. How pathetic that mentallity is
when infact some of those volunteers can do just as good a job or even better
than some of those who are paid.
I have worked my fair share of government jobs and in my life I
have seen my fair share of worthless patronage jobs.
Perhaps look at it from a different point of view and take a walk in
the victims shoes and you will find yourself not giving a rats fanny if
the "body" that comes to your rescue was an amateur
or a pro, a horse or a dog, just as long as whomever came DID
SOMETHING to rescue or recover them. I am sure they simply do not give a
damn if you are paid or not or even whether you have insurance or even
experience etc. The victims probably could care less about your resume
and that only that you are a GOOD SAM.
As the population grows, so to does the potential for disaster, so folks,
don't cut your noses off to spite your faces and exclude ANYONE if they want
to be involved. You never know when that "body" is going to be the
one that just might save your life. The general public is getting to be
more survival minded day by day so isn't it smart to get with the "program"
and get with ALL people and WORK with it? I can see why so many
communities have more than their share of crime because there is a blatant
lack of "community" and in blatant terms, too many "good old boys" in it for
themselves. There are programs missing that draw the
community together and becasue of that, they are also split apart. I
find the real tradgedy is that too often it takes a disaster to
bring a community together when that community should have been functioning
well before hand and was not.
I was recently involved in a conversation with someone who was adamant
about the segregation of church and state. While that might have merit
for some people, this person
that I was having this discussion with had absolutely no clue as to how
many people of faith
did more for the common good when it came to disaster relief efforts as
in the cases of Katrina or the India earthquakes etc. and for the sake of
the victims and how many of those fine folks were volunteers. Until you
have worked with these missions and missionaries, you have literally no clue
and when you work with these people, the volunteers live it, breathe it daily
and they give of free will. And if you have not worked with them, you
might just consider this, they are a member of a church.
It is also a fact of irony that when you bring a group of
horsemen together, there is always arguement as to what care is better or what
training method is better or what feed, breed or saddle etc....It is a fact
too, that we all can carry away a peice of knowledge from anyone who engages
in this conversation of how too and why. And it is a fact
that when someone NEEDS HELP, those with helping hands will leave NO ONE
BEHIND whether they are paid to do it or NOT. And never assume that that
volunteer standing or riding next to you is
a total lacky just because he or she is not getting paid or had an
education like you.
Karen Nesbitt
VMSAR
Iroquois County
Illinois - USA
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