Hope...looking from 2006 to 2007

Hope...
to wish for something with expectation of its fulfillness.
to have confidence: trust.
to hope with little reason or justification.
to expect and desire.
It is the dictionary's description of hope.

So what do we hope for?
Putting aside the greed..
We hope for solutions to problems.
We hope for a better life.
For ourselves as well as others.

As a nation, we hope for a good and
safe solution to a war? police action?
or what ever one wants to call it.
They said they had a plan. But it
seems the plan only went into how
to start it. Not how to solve it, or finish
it. Peace? How presumptuous they were,
that they could bring peace when there
has not been peace in that area for over
2,000 years. Yet we have hope.

Congressmen in the nation as well as
the states, have gave themselves raises
for years, yet hold down the minimum
wage for the bottom workers. They say,
it will just raise the economy higher and
we will have a depression or any other down
side term they can say. Yet, their raises
don't do that? How is that? But we have
hope, that maybe this time around the
votes may have been heard. Maybe,
we hope that the worker who makes it
happen for the higher paying jobs, will
be treated fairly. We hope.......

The people have express their feelings
about how the law is for some, while those
who enforce the law, seem to think it
doesn't pertain to them as much.. We
voters have hopes that abuse of all
kinds, will be dealt with. Justly and fairly.
We hope.

In Bonner County, we have hope that
the bypass will be come a reality. After
all, 50 years is long enough to wait.
We have hope that the powers who
loved the increase of high level housing
will see that the low level need affordable
housing. Affordable on $5.75 to $9.00
wages. $220,000 is not affordable, by those
of service type jobs. We hope for all of them
to have a safe house. And we don't lose
families in trailer fires. We hope......