Reposted by Robot Automatomshany
This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.
![[Refrain:]
First you take your babe and gently hold her
Then you lay your head upon her shoulder
Next you walk just like your legs are breaking
Do a fango like a tango
Then you star the shimmie to shaking](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nos6kfqibuacnxxlkgtwdl2c/bafkreidsi5wkfjzirapdu5m7rcoi73qs2lfw23xgss2sms62rnec53mwee)
![The final movement [from Charles Ives' Orchestral Set No. 2] "From Hanover Square North, At the End of a Tragic Day, The Voice of the People Again Arose", recalls Ives's experience of May 7, 1915, the day that the news broke of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, preceding the United States' entry into the First World War. Ives's focus, however, as Clayton Henderson notes, is not about the sinking per se, but rather "the reaction of a group of commuters". According to his own memoirs, the crowd waiting on the platform of New York's Hanover Square station spontaneously broke into the gospel hymn "In the Sweet By and By" – a tune that was being played on a barrel organ on the street below. He stated:
Some workmen sitting on the side of the tracks began to whistle the tune, and others began to sing or hum the refrain. A workman with a shovel over his shoulder came on to the platform and joined in the chorus, and the next man, a Wall Street banker with white spats and a cane, joined in it, finally it seemed to me that everybody was singing this tune, and they didn't seem to be singing it in fun, but as a natural outlet for what their feelings had been going through all day long.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nos6kfqibuacnxxlkgtwdl2c/bafkreidyag25nt5eoqbiuirxum423cvd7zq74kbp5l75vsme32gvogxixi)
