If you think the country will be a better place for you if those currently trying to rule this country win, you're wrong. If you think the country will be a better place for your children if those currently trying to rule this country win, you're wrong. If you think the country will be a better place for your grandchildren if those currently trying to rule this country win, you're wrong. I am sure you are wrong because everything they do is to benefit only one group, and you are probably not a part of that group, your children are losing opportunities to ever aspire to be part of that group and your grandchildren won't know that opportunities to be part of that group ever existed. It used to be that if you were an honest laborer and you worked very, very hard you had an opportunity to reach a level of great wealth. How often have you heard a very rich person say that they started from nothing? But now, they want to give those who already are rich the power to stay rich and get richer by taking opportunities away from the hard working laborer. Like by taking jobs away, and cutting pay, and asking the hard working people to pay more, and taking health care options away, and asking hard working people to pay more for less, and taking away the freedom to bargain for a decent wage and decent working conditions and basically making us all slaves. Please don't take offence to that, a slave is one forced to work for nothing and treated with disdain, and that's what we are all becoming. Now our children are even worse off because if they are lucky enough to get a job, they sure as hell won't do anything to lose that job, so they will work really, really hard for very little pay and be treated with no respect and thank someone everyday that they are working and won't think at all about the possibility of being rich. And our grandchildern will watch their parents work really, really hard for very little pay and know that they will do the same. OR THEY WILL STAND UP AND SAY NO MORE AND WISH LIKE HELL THEIR PARENTS OR GRANDPARENTS HAD DONE THAT AND FIGHT LIKE HELL TO LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM WHICH WAS SNATCHED AWAY BY A GROUP OF SELF RIGHTIOUS EGOMANIACS WITH NO CONSCIENCE WHO CARED NOTHING ABOUT THIS COUNTRY BUT CARED A GREAT DEAL ABOUT THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR WHICH THEY HAD PLENTY OF AND COULDN'T STAND THE THOUGHT OF HAVING TO GIVE ANY OF IT UP OR NOT BEING ABLE TO GRAB MORE!!! I will say one thing for those who are trying to rule this country, they are smart enough to know that what they are putting through will take years to undo, and when it is finally undone, because our grandchildren will win, they'll be dead, or dying, or too damn rich to care.
Rosemary
What is happening at federal, state, even local levels, is class warfare. Make no mistake about it, people. The rich are getting richer, the poor, poorer. Like Martin Luther King, we should all have dreams, too: that all children should be able to go to college, that all citizens should have health care (and my physician friend who is a dual citizen of this country and Canada says that, yes, health care works over there), that seniors shouldn't have to decide whether they will get their prescriptions - or buy food...We need jobs, work where the people of this country can make a livable wage. I don't understand why people aren't burning up the phone lines to Washington, state capitols, writing letters to their respective congressmen and women, the legislators that are supposed to be working for us. Where is the appropriate moral outrage?
ReplyDeleteRose you're still preaching to the choir. As for the robber barons. In way you got to feel sorry for them. One of my favorite quotes is from The Dali Lama. To paraphrase. When asked what surprised him most about humanity he said "Man because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present. The result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die. And then he dies having never really lived" I guess in a perfect world we would all live by the Ten Commandments and be happy to just be here.
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