The problem is in Houston, Washington, Chicago, or New York.
We are paying entirely too much for consumer goods. Consumer goods, includes Gasoline.
Day after day, we hear of Gasoline Companies setting record profits while the price creep ever higher at the pump.
As a capitalistic society this is how the system works. But, the system also says that a man is to be paid a fair wage for a fair day’s work.
When oil and fuel goes up, so go freight charges, anything made of plastic, utilities, food and on and on.
If a fair days wage no longer supports that worker, then someone has to step in a set the situation straight.
Between January 1 and February 29, 86,000 workers lost their jobs.
In some cases, they will be permitted to collect unemployment for 26 weeks. Most, only 13. Not only do they, in most cases, have no health care, but after their Unemployment insurance runs out, they’ll have no prospects either.
It’s an election year. Nothing gets done during an election year. The lame duck president does nothing. No new government contracts are issued or approved. The congress and the senate might as well not be there at all.
And, no one gives a rats ass what any of the candidates have to say. But, will any of those same people still be around or care at election time?
Wake up, Dammit! People are dying, people are starving, children are being abandoned, whole families are living in cars, tent and parks.
I’m talking about the United States, people! Not some third world back hole.
My friend, a good Christian man I asked where his church’s money was going as far as helping people. He admitted that while some was used for local families in need, the bulk was going over seas. He said that’s pretty much the same for most congregations.
This at a time when Israel, one of the richest countries, in the world, receives in excess of $80 billion dollars a year from our government as a line item budget. People, they are budgeted like school lunches!!!
For God’s sake, please do something. I am personally 2 steps away from living the rest of my life in a wheel chair and cannot help any further than to tell you readers the truth.
Voting won’t help.
An old sage once said “One person throwing a pebble in a river will not stop the flow. A thousand people throwing pebbles will slow the flow. But a million people throwing pebbles will stop the flow.”
Help stop the flow any way you can. Take any risk. Break any law. Stop the Flow!