Where is our TRUE Leadership?
Where is our TRUE Leadership?
There was a bit of prose I read years ago and recently found a copy of. Feel free to substitute your preferred gender speak for the term “men” as it’s an older piece of writing.
Here it is:
The greatest want in the world is the want of men.
Men who will not be bought or sold
Men who in their inmost souls are true and honest.
Men who do not fear to call sin by its right name.
Men who’s conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole.
Men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
We used to call these people “leaders” and we looked up to them.
Unfortunately, our society and the world has declined to a point where we’re much more concerned with valuing what’s most “politically correct”, what offends the least amount of voters, fighting against what the other political party wants because they’re not our party, ergo, their ideas are wrong by definition.
Ever really wonder why things aren’t getting done? Why government isn’t working? Why we’re in the financial and political mess we’re in right now?
Leaders simply aren’t leading. They’re too busy redeeming campaign promises to special interest groups and have totally lost sight of the big picture of leading this nation that our founding fathers held so dear.
If we’re looking at examples, we have no further to look back at our own history than the recent debates in congress over the $700 Billion bailout. Clearly, this was congressional and partisan bickering at its worst. And for many of those who claim to be our leaders, it’s business as usual at it’s worse.
It’s time to stop business as usual. It’s time to end the partisan bickering process that has and continues to cloud problem solving for our great nation. It’s time to return to true leadership.
The time has come to end management with bubble gum and bailing wire, and to replace it with clear thought and sound policy.
The time has come to end the partisanship that divides us not only politically but as a nation, and replace it with unity and strength of purpose and direction.
The time has come to replace giveaways with sound business plans and policies.
That time of change is now, what remains to be seen is if the new crop of would be leaders are indeed leaders, or just more of the same. Change has to be in the form of action, not a political buzzword. Are they up to it, or is just going to be business as usual all over again?
I’m Don Rima and that’s the way I see it, From Where I Stand.
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