Maia
Jedi
Yesterday I wanted to but refrained from commenting on the SOTT Article concerning the young couple that just got done buying a yacht for tens of millions of dollars. (Shakes head and rolls eyes).
Meanwhile tens of millions of people starve from lack of food, clean water and adequate medical health care. Many right here in America.
Our Senators and Congressmen and their wives are set for life, read their healthcare and retirement package benefits. Who is working for whom?
While some are allowed to earn so much per year they couldn't possibly spend it all in ten life times there are those that really do the work, care for your child each day while you zoom off to your 10 X 10 cube, the person who gets you your McMuffin and coffee, the person who makes sure you have enough toilet paper and cleans your company toilet, the person who shapes your child's mind each day in the classroom, these people barely make enough to put food on their table and a roof over their head.
Then there are those that don't even have a warm room or bed.
For the most part, these are people that cannot work. Many are ex vets, with physiological trauma damage that fighting the rich elites many wars bring. Many yet are mentally challenged, but they all are still fellow human beings.
Most people pass by the homeless and think, lazy bum. That mindset excuses empathy and allows for apathy to comfortably set in.
I can only speak for the Midwestern United States as I am not well traveled. Where I work at a soup kitchen two days a month - many of these homeless people just a few years ago were the mentally challenged (Reagan closed down most of the mental health institutions in the 80's).
Now, as each month progresses, we are seeing, more and more people that just a few years ago were classified as The Middle Class". The rich are getting richer and the middle class and poor are getting screwed. And most people are either blind or simply don't care.
One medical issue, one job outsourced / in-sourced = home loss = another homeless person / now with more children involved than ever.
I am seeing it, each month, and the numbers are increasing dramatically. People don't seem to care if some injustice doesn't affect them. But, they don't realize what affects one of us eventually affects all of us.
I suggest watching The Tunnel Dwellers of New York. Excellent documentary - The last sentence is hollowing.
I held a middle class, very technological white collar job until it was outsourced to “Team India” August 31, 2010. It did take them over a year to learn my job function, but learn it they did and luckily my husband makes a good enough salary we will be able to pay off our home in 7 years. I am 58, he is 66.
Can’t think this will happen to you – think again.
Just one, maybe two major issues would be all it would take to overnight you from being comfortable to sleeping in a sleeping bag in some tunnel with no protection, no locked doors, exposed and hungry.
Your nice house with two and a half baths, two SUVS, The membership to the local health club, dinner Saturday night at Wild Fire, hair and nail appointments at the local beauty shop – your comfortable lifestyle hangs by a very thin thread that can be cut short at anytime.
Again, the very last sentence in this documentary says it all. If you watch this documentary, listen for that last sentence.
Time is running short, the clock is ticking. We must all wake up and realize that we have a choice. We are at a crossroads as Laura has stated previously.
There is no on the fence on this one. You are either a Service to Self or a Service to Others.
Our collective choice to the above statement will determine our future as a species and our place in the universe.
Sorry, but in my book, some sitting down at the table and cutting themselves ¾ of the pie and leaving the ¼ left for the rest is neither fair nor just.
Something must change and soon.
Meanwhile tens of millions of people starve from lack of food, clean water and adequate medical health care. Many right here in America.
Our Senators and Congressmen and their wives are set for life, read their healthcare and retirement package benefits. Who is working for whom?
While some are allowed to earn so much per year they couldn't possibly spend it all in ten life times there are those that really do the work, care for your child each day while you zoom off to your 10 X 10 cube, the person who gets you your McMuffin and coffee, the person who makes sure you have enough toilet paper and cleans your company toilet, the person who shapes your child's mind each day in the classroom, these people barely make enough to put food on their table and a roof over their head.
Then there are those that don't even have a warm room or bed.
For the most part, these are people that cannot work. Many are ex vets, with physiological trauma damage that fighting the rich elites many wars bring. Many yet are mentally challenged, but they all are still fellow human beings.
Most people pass by the homeless and think, lazy bum. That mindset excuses empathy and allows for apathy to comfortably set in.
I can only speak for the Midwestern United States as I am not well traveled. Where I work at a soup kitchen two days a month - many of these homeless people just a few years ago were the mentally challenged (Reagan closed down most of the mental health institutions in the 80's).
Now, as each month progresses, we are seeing, more and more people that just a few years ago were classified as The Middle Class". The rich are getting richer and the middle class and poor are getting screwed. And most people are either blind or simply don't care.
One medical issue, one job outsourced / in-sourced = home loss = another homeless person / now with more children involved than ever.
I am seeing it, each month, and the numbers are increasing dramatically. People don't seem to care if some injustice doesn't affect them. But, they don't realize what affects one of us eventually affects all of us.
I suggest watching The Tunnel Dwellers of New York. Excellent documentary - The last sentence is hollowing.
I held a middle class, very technological white collar job until it was outsourced to “Team India” August 31, 2010. It did take them over a year to learn my job function, but learn it they did and luckily my husband makes a good enough salary we will be able to pay off our home in 7 years. I am 58, he is 66.
Can’t think this will happen to you – think again.
Just one, maybe two major issues would be all it would take to overnight you from being comfortable to sleeping in a sleeping bag in some tunnel with no protection, no locked doors, exposed and hungry.
Your nice house with two and a half baths, two SUVS, The membership to the local health club, dinner Saturday night at Wild Fire, hair and nail appointments at the local beauty shop – your comfortable lifestyle hangs by a very thin thread that can be cut short at anytime.
Again, the very last sentence in this documentary says it all. If you watch this documentary, listen for that last sentence.
Time is running short, the clock is ticking. We must all wake up and realize that we have a choice. We are at a crossroads as Laura has stated previously.
There is no on the fence on this one. You are either a Service to Self or a Service to Others.
Our collective choice to the above statement will determine our future as a species and our place in the universe.
Sorry, but in my book, some sitting down at the table and cutting themselves ¾ of the pie and leaving the ¼ left for the rest is neither fair nor just.
Something must change and soon.
