"... there'll be plenty of blame to go around. Right now, just shut up and do something that will actually help someone."

Busy Mom said it the way I'd like to have said it.

The things that don't work:

Political Posturing
Wringing of Hands
Whining
Admonishing
Blaming
Talking about it

The things that do work:

Action
Change (in yourself)

That's really about it - unless you do something, unless you see what you do not like and change first within yourself, nothing will happen.

I heard a local woman on the radio today "why isn't someone doing something" she whined. She wanted to government to do something, she wanted 'someone' to organize a food drive, she wanted 'someone' to organize a clothing drive, she wanted 'someone' to start a convoy down to help Katrina's victims.

"What are you doing?" the announcer asked.

"I can't do anything!" she was shocked and a little bit outraged at his question.

"Why not?" he said, truly curious about how she managed to call him without someone dialing for her.

"I don't have any power, 'someone' in power has to do 'something'!" Right. No real solutions, no idea what the solution should be, no idea who should do it... but something should be done by someone - but it couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't be her.