We Are Living In A World Gone Mad!

How did we ever get to this place in our society where people are acting like madmen?  Arianna Huffington wants President Obama to open a temporary White House in New Orleans, Keith Olbermann wants the president to show some anger and then someone else says he isn't paying enough attention to the economy.  Many people will not be happy unless he dives down 5000 feet and plugs the hole himself!
The BP CEO wants his life back when his company has created the worst ecological disaster this country has known.
Bobby Jindal, governor of Louisianna, who has criticized the President's stimulus plan and hates "big government" is crying for government intervention in the oil spill.  His state has received so much money from the oil industry that in spite of this tragedy and the ruination of environment of the Gulf Of Mexico he is advocating more drilling in the gulf and asking Obama to end the moratorium on drilling.
Israel attacks an aid ship going to Palestine where people are starving.  Do they remember how it was to starve during the Holocaust?
Glen Beck attacks the young daughter of the president and makes fun of her.
Former President Bush admits to the war crime of water boarding and says he would do it again.  Why are we not prosecuting him and Dick Cheney like we have others for the same crime.
The lobbyists have a strangle hold on Congress and the Republicans can do nothing but say no and the Democrats do not have the guts to push ahead.
The big banks and Wall Street still continue their bad practices at our expense.
Then at the state level we have so many people running in the primary for governor and only one of them has anything new to offer.  We are budget cutting everything in sight and in reality doing nothing to improve our economy.  Our kids are getting poor educations and the poor are getting poorer.
The we come down to the local level and the Town of Windham has elected a council that is self serving at  best.  They treat the citizens with arrogance and intimidation.  They have taken land out of resource protection, they are allowing zoning changes that only favor developers and have deep impacts on established neighborhoods.  They have spent over $450,000.00 of TIFF money to buy ten acres of some the worst property on Route 302 to supposedly fix a poor intersection when in reality it appears that it was just to help out a friend.  They talk about economic development but give no thought to the cultural needs of the community.  We have no bookstore, no decent shoe or clothing store and the development along Route 302 is an eyesore to the community.
We all need to step back and rethink where we are going and what kind of world we are creating for future generations.  We need new ideas and a better sense of integrity and get back to caring about each other and realize how our words and actions affect others.  We need people in office who have a strong sense of accountability and a strong moral code.  We as individuals also need to stop and think about how we live and what do we do to allow this corruption and madness to exist in our country and in the world because if we cared we would be sure that it changed.