[classicsnoot]

people do not care and they will not care you may be right, but you are painting with an immensely broad brush. you care. i care. i bet many care. does that mean anything? time will tell. ...nothing is being done about NSA, Gubniment corruption, torture allegations, etc Jeez. What did you expect, a revolution? This country of mine [ours?] was built to do things slowly. The original idea was to make it hard for the central government to do things quickly, thereby weakening its power. It may have worked for a while, but it also severely handicapped anyone in the government to stand up to banking and commercial interests [there are some in the government, past and present, who legitimately care about people and earnestly try to do the right thing]. things take time. understand, i have said, verbatim, everything you stated more than once in many different situations. i agree, but i guess seeing it in writing from another person rustled some optimistic feathers i had not known i had. a personal story, so take it with a grain of salt: someone i know, very personally, works for no such agency. at the time of the Snowden Revelations, they were obviously mum. to date, they have said nothing about it, but i have watched the bags under the eyes deepen, the gray hairs multiply, the demeanor sag. Does this mean anything to anyone, does it mean there is hope? who knows such things. i encourage you to consider two things: 1) wedding bands serve the very important function of reminding a person what they already know; the effort is the point. the building is the amalgam of the bricks put into it. 2) no one changes their mind during an argument; it is only after silent and solitary consideration that a person's mind changes.