"Fuel of interest to the fire of genius"

Adults and children alike are helpless today. If someone doesn’t have money to drive to the office, we’ll help them over the phone; so says a director of a government program on jobs. The tobacco industry has been forced by litigation to fund a program for 6th to 8th graders on "life skills." On a healthier lives without tobacco. On resisting peer pressure. On the proper self-image which will save our children from cigarette use. On picking up butts as part of mandatory volunteerism to up the ante of the repulsion factor. Don’t count on it. Peer pressure is part of human nature. Young voters just facilitated the ascension of a new President Obama into the Oval Office. A smoker, by the way who does not resist peer pressure. Obama’s stimulus package and bailouts reinforce the conclusion that we’re all helpless today. Who said that America’s greatness was moving from the "fuel of interest to the fire of genius?" Who could have been no naive as to think that the soul and psyche of Americans would be totally consumed by that fire? That nothing would be left but the ashes. Oh, Abraham, no phoenix has risen as of today, January 16, 2009.