Right now, across this country, very weary folks are working
two or three minimum wage jobs to support themselves and perhaps a family.
Right now, across this country, folks who are out of work
are wearily reading classified ads, making phone calls, sending resumes, trying
to support themselves and perhaps a family.
Right now, across this country, elderly people, who have
been retired or who should be retired, are working at Walmart or Target or a
grocery store or a department store, trying to support themselves and perhaps
pay for expensive medicines. Yesterday
we found out that Norma, one of our favorite people at the grocery store, had
passed away, and it made us so very sad that this very mature, hard-working,
kind woman had had to work right up to her death, with never a bit of
respite. And Norma is certainly not an
exception.
Neither we nor any of these people are impressed with the
lifestyle of that often-named one percent, the ones who have forty percent of
the wealth of the country. The ones who
have forty percent of the wealth of the country not because they have earned
it "by the sweat of their brows", but because it has come to them through all the weary folks who are working
minimum wage jobs, through the folks who have had their jobs taken away to ‘stream-line
productivity’ because business can do that, or who have had their medicine
costs soar out of proportion because the drug companies can do that.
And right now a whole political party is committed not only
to clearing our national debt by draconian slashing of benefits from Medicare
to education to food stamp programs, they are at the same time intent on
drastically cutting the taxes of that same top one percent. Does our national debt need to be dealt
with? Absolutely. Are these the right methods to use to deal
with our national debt? Well, right
now, those who think that are either the members of one political party, or
that famous one percent, or the sadly misinformed.
So what just may be going on right now is a genuine epic
battle for the future of our country.
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