I got into this sitting on the tarmac in Syracuse.  Turns out there were three tunnels dug.  And the one that won, the one that reached the stranded miners first, was American.

There’s a drill bit with hammers.  Which kept breaking.  But this Pennsylvania company kept replacing the hammers and ultimately achieved victory over its competitors.

Not that it’s a competition.  But in a crisis, it’s all about can-do.  Naysayers are pushed aside.  We only have time for winners.  Does it take a crisis to unite people?

We’ve got a crisis in America.  No jobs.  And those with the money want to keep it.  And we can’t even help the working stiff.  Chris Christie cancels the tunnel to Manhattan crying about money, stranding his constituency ultimately on the freeway.  Our whole country is going to hell in a handbasket.  Our infrastructure is crumbling, but like an old Freddie Prinze routine, everybody says EEZ NOT MY JOB!

It’s not my job to educate the public say the religious zealots who send their kids to parochial school or school said children at home.

It’s not my job to fix roads I don’t travel on.

When did our whole country become about me, me, me?  If it doesn’t benefit me specifically, if it’s mainly for someone else, screw it.

What about society?

It’s hard to believe in Obama, because the President doesn’t lead.  It’s like giving the halfback the ball and having him stand behind the line, debating what to do.  And when he finally runs, when he bumps into defenders he keeps apologizing, trying to play nice, trying not to offend anyone.

And then we’ve got the idiots on the sidelines who think they can run the government.  Yes, I’m talking about you, Christine O’Donnell. You may not be a witch, but where have you demonstrated that you’re familiar with the issues, that you know how to legislate?  Or that you’re in touch with the public?  Yup, ban masturbation, that’s a great starting point.

So we’ve got the ineffective, can’t do Democrats and the I won’t do anything Republicans, both in thrall to the rich folk who fund their campaigns.  Unless the rich folk, like Meg and Carly, decide to run the country themselves.  As if we want our country run by corporate titans.  Where’s the care for employees demonstrated by the Fortune 500?  A government is for all, it’s not for profit.

But down in Chile, in a crisis, everybody threw in together.  We’re stunned by the technology, the fortitude.  We applaud the human spirit.  We believe problems can be solved.

Will it take life or death to solve our problems here in America?  Is that what it’s gonna take to rally everybody around a cause?

I don’t have any children, should I not pay for schools?

If you don’t drive a car should you not pay for highway repairs?

We live in a society.  And right now our society is not cohesive.  It’s about the haves and have-nots.  Those who want to be in everybody else’s personal business under the guise of freedom and those who want to be able to pursue happiness in their own individual way.

Our country is not about money, it’s about people!  That’s why we’re riveted by the rescue of the Chilean miners.  Because it’s about life and death.

Just because no one’s dying in this election cycle don’t think it too is not about life and death.  There’s just not one crisis we can all point to to bring us together.  But people are starving, people are homeless, people can’t get work.  Are we not gonna help them?