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And what started this train of thought?

Our government wants us to get out there and spend money to create a fiscal stimulus and calm the “potentially disastrous impact of the recession”. Let us be humble with our needs and our actions, let’s ensure that grand gestures are born of passion and tempered by wisdom and the obssessive, blundering behaviours that fuel our greed and selfishness are managed. Before we self-implode let’s look out for our neighbours, are they warm, will they be alone at Christmas? Do they need someone to listen to them? The man on the street begging may be surviving on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol but maybe a hot drink and a sandwich may remind him it’s not a ‘them and us’ situation and that now is the time to let in the professional support that’s out there. Does that make you recoil? It does me,  I’m rubbish at being a better person. Small steps, small acts of compassion, whatever it is, whatever you can offer. Hasn’t that got to be better than being a part of the world as represented by national news?

Steps slowly off soapbox… and falls over

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