Meetings

Luckily I don't have <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/10/27/build/state/30-ranchers-wolf.inc" target="_blank">this problem</a> here <u>yet</u> but I really wonder what kind of good this meeting is doing? A chance to get together and bitch? A little earlier this year Stillwater county had another <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/index.php?p=291" target="_blank">meeting</a> about the drought that was basically just a bitch session too. I am not a big fan of meetings though so that may color my viewpoint here.<br />n<br />nI mentioned before one of Montana's big fires was here last year and they, being anybody that felt like it, had fairly regular meetings while the fire was burning. The people fighting the fire, and others, would come out here and ask if I had been to the meeting. To begin with I would ask what the meeting was about and the answer would vary from plans to fight the fire to how landowners can get paid for thier losses. I would tell them that they could meet about the fire all they want, I was going to fight it and put it out while they were busy discussing it. They would ask "what about getting paid for your losses?" I told them I didn't want a god damn dime from anybody, I just wanted the fire out and that was exactly what I was doing while they were busy talking about it.<br />n<br />nI don't know, endless meetings don't seem to get a person anywhere to me. They are just big bitch sessions with nothing really accomplished but, I guess it makes some people feel better so they do it.<br />n<br />n<b>Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. John Kenneth Galbraith</b>