Now THAT'S what I'M talkin'about!
Posted By: anon on 2007-06-29
In Reply to: Offshore concerns blog - mg
Red, Blue, left, right or sittin' on the fence, this is an issue that brings us together. We are not some puny little group of waifs crying in the wilderness. I think this is ullustrated in this post I am transferring from the company board.
Lest we get redirected to the politics board, let me make a few general observations. I would not look to the companies for resolution. They are only one player among many whose greed holds our country in their clutch...a tight, squeezing grip that impoverishes the poor, enriches the wealthy and make economic refugees of the ever-shrinking middle class. Look beyond the corruption of the politicians and whatever despair, frustration and hopelessness you may feel. For a long, single moment, stop and stare far back into the eyes or our history and ask these questions over and over and over again:
Why are we paid wages like we're a third world country? It'd be nice just to meet the bills, but between low wages, high cost of living, colossal insurance rates, a must-have because our antidepressant medications are so flipping high, who can survive doing this anymore?
They are your questions. They are mine too. Why, indeed. Go and find your answers. Seek educated and balanced debates, pros and cons, right and left. Here's a hint on how to start. You'll have to switch to something besides Fox and CNN to find this. Listen to the candidates. Follow the rhetoric and their platforms. Watch closely and be a tough critic. Put yourself around others who share these perspectives. Listen and contribute, teach and learn from one and the other. Identify your agenda and then go out and promote and support it.
Do this between now and this time next year. Then show up at the polls. You will know what to do. If you don't get what you want from the leadership and the legislators, do not retreat into a corner of the country with your tail between your legs. Get out there and go for it, over and over. This is not wasted effort. If you were a child of the 60s or 70s, you would believe this. In my life, sweeping, long-reaching and lasting reform has come and gone. Minorities and women still reap the benefits of those efforts from so long ago. We didn't have the internet back then...this is the most powerful tool of all in this endeavor. Free speech rocks! The time is ripe for history to repeat itself.
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