There must be a consensus.

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Of course, no one can know the outcome of y2k. But surely there must be some way to reach a national consensus on a problem as potentialy serious as this. I think it's foolish to rely on government assurances..Republican or Democrat! With the exception of Bennett and Dodd,(both of whom I'm afraid have fallen under the spinmiester's spell) who can we really trust in Washington? Clinton? Gore? Kosky? PULLEEEEEZE! We have been left adrift by the politicos and frightened department heads to to fend for ourselves! If y2k is truly catastrophic,I for one will find it extremely difficult to forgive, and impossible to excuse any leader(s) that stood by and let it happen. If there is statistically only a 5% chance of what many intelligent,thoughtful and software educated persons are predicting, then we should immediatly put this country on a crisis mode and frantically use every means and resource to prepare for a national disaster!Even the pollys won't say it absolutely can't happen, they just believe the odds are vastly against it.At least we should immediatly put our best and most knowledgeable people together with all the best data available, and see if they can reach a consensus as to weather the risk is great enough to warrant preparation and how much preparation...If their consensus is that there's a reasonable chance of anything greater than a three day storm, then let's go all out to prepare. Whatever their consensus, I personally will prepare.

-- citizen (lost@sea.com), September 26, 1999

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There is nobody in Washington that we can trust. Except maybe Ron Paul. I suggest that we forget what people are saying, pro and con, and consider this: if we just lost a very conservative 5% of businesses, small, medium, and large...plus 5% of government services, along with getting jacked by all the rest of the world's obvious lack of concern...we are in some major trouble.

Go ahead pollys...dazzle us with your statistics. If you were around in 1974 and saw what happend when just one item, oil, was in short supply, then your yada yada yada is bs bs bs!! Those who claim that Y2K will have no impact on our economy are complete morons. It has already had an impact, considering the amount of money that has been spent fixing it!

-- Don Wegner (donfmwyo@earthlink.net), September 26, 1999.


don,

i trust Ru Paul, but i don't know if he's (she's) in D.C. maybe ru could team up with jessie and the two of them could kick ross' and "the donald's" little chicken shit assess. actually ru wouldn't need any help from jessie to get the job done. jessie could limit it to refereeing and his proceeds could go towards buying a small island that ross and "the donald" would be banishe

-- corrine l (corrine@iwaynet.net), September 26, 1999.


citizen, please re-read your post and see what you've really said:

You don't know what's going to happen.

You want someone to tell you what's going to happen.

The government has told you nothing will happen

You don't believe that.

So, you want someone else to tell you what's going to happen.....let's assemble a blue ribbon panel to tell us what to do.

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None of us know what's going to happen.

Most of us make our own decisions about the risks and the rewards of the situation, and based on our own perception we prepare/don't prepare. When we get through this we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

You are looking for a crutch. It isn't there. It won't be there. You will have to think for yourself on this one.

-- de (delewis@inetone.ent), September 26, 1999.


Even if you COULD arrive at a consensus, (how? by vote? poll?) you wouldn't have anything you could use as a compass to navigate Y2K's troubled seas by. POLLS are USELESS unless you are trying to "govern" from a Liberal Perspective. NO ONE TRULY KNOWS!! and opinions (the stuff of votes and polls) are just like fundamental orifices, EVERY BODY's GOT ONE!

Night Train

-- Jes an ol footballer lookin for the light (nighttr@in.lane), September 26, 1999.


Night Train,

A thousand pardons if this is a personal intrusion, but every time I see your sig, I wonder, do we have a Hall-of-Famer posting here?

Respectfully your fan,

-- RUOK (RUOK@yesiam.com), September 26, 1999.



corrine, we're relying on ru paul to see us through? Oh oh!

Citizen, you make a good point--even if we lose only a conservative 5 percent, we're in trouble. We are in trouble, I think. Leaders? That's, indeed, what's missing.

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 26, 1999.


Clearly, Y2K is NOT one-size-fits-all... either globally... nationally... or locally.

As preparation is not. To each their own comfort level.

It's all different, and we can't expect it to be the same, nor can we expect those with the covered crystal balls in Washington see into our individual or collective futures. (They don't even "get" their own, at this point in time).

Yes, it "appears" they've abdicated their elected and appointed responsibilities. We are saddened by that fact, but are we particularly surprised? Not really.

It's time to depend upon your own inner authority, and take responsibility for those around you. That "sphere of influence" you DO have some control over.

Your choice! Don't abdicate it to the illusion of "authority," or "experts." NO ONE on the planet has, as yet, mastered this game.

3-Dimensional checkmate? Or not? Your move.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 26, 1999.


A consensus of idiots and charlatans (most of the public and politicians) will give you a "consensus" with no relation to reality. You're on your own.

-- A (A@AisA.com), September 26, 1999.

"Consensus is the negation of leadership." - Margaret Thatcher

-- Jay (havocuz@mindspring.com), September 27, 1999.

I'm in Ron Paul's district. He writes ~monthly articles for our local paper, but never anything about Y2K. Usually KYC/big brother stuff.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), September 27, 1999.


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