Email from my Mom about Monday Night's Meeting

I usually write my own blog entries, but I have not had time to write a well thought out entry for a good while so I decided to share the following with you. I received it just a few minutes ago and it bears repeating.
Karl

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From: ecarrol@aol.com [mailto:ecarrol@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:07 PM
To: auctioneer@door.net
Subject: observations

This is how I felt about the meeting...I didn't want to put it on the Anton site till you saw it. If you want it on there....you are welcome to use it. I just had the desire to put it on paper
Love ya
Mom

As I watched the people at the Anton meeting on the 15^th of September, 2008, I observed so many angry people. Everyone that spoke had a gripe but most had no solutions. It was all about me, myself and I. The town I grew up in was a neat, sweet little town. I would like to see it that way again. I want to believe it is still a sweet, (but not too neat) town, and in an emergency or disaster I think we would all pull together, but at the meeting I saw groups together that had their minds made up before they arrived….without facts I might add, or with distorted facts…I realize there isn’t much revenue flowing into town now, so what is the solution? I for one do not like the entitlement doctrine. There are always those that think the world owes them everything, but not our town….surely not….. If it takes a raise in the water bill….so be it. It wouldn’t amount to a lot out of each pocket, and if there are some that can’t (now I said “can’t”…not “don’t want to”) afford the raise…then go to the leaders of our town and each case can be decided. Pull together is what I am saying, don’t keep blaming everything on the other guy. You live in our town, too, so part of the problem must be you. Come up with an idea…and if it isn’t accepted….look at it again, and you decide….maybe it was a solution for your group….but not for the town as a whole. Be honest with yourself, don’t organize a lynch mob. Come up with another idea!

This has always been a Christian based community. Is the serpent starting to slither in??

I pray not.

Carrol Campbell