Do you like what you see?
Take a look around – cities are flooding, storms are ripping our infrastructure apart, and our "leaders" only pay attention for a photo op. People want to help but they’re torn – will this happen to them? It sure looks like it. We live in the Northwest but there have even been a few funnel clouds around here – we’re in an earthquake zone, have had flood threats, and an active volcano nearby. Lightening just a few days ago sparked fires – and it’s early in the season, folks!
Take a look around – people are losing their homes. THEIR HOMES! The roofs over their heads! They can’t even count on renting because the owners of the rentals are foreclosing also. A whole new category of homeless is being created. We live pretty modestly in a manufactured home in a park. It’s a nice home but the interest rates are higher to finance and the rent for the space keeps increasing. Can’t sell it – who will buy it?
Take a look around – I paid $4.25 a gallon for unleaded a few days ago for my Camry; which gets pretty good mileage but now costs as much to fill and run as my husband’s Dodge diesel a year ago. In the last day or so I’ve seen people walking down the road with a gas can. We’re lucky around here – we have a pretty good mass transit system but it can’t service everyone.
Take a look around – as an aging boomer we’re not only supporting ourselves but helping out our grown children (who are all employed but struggling) and supporting an aging parent. That’s almost the equivalent to two full households. Add in the costs for prescription drugs and added electricity for oxygen tanks for the parent and loans to pay this month’s phone bill and prescriptions for the grandkids – it adds up. The grown kids’ hours keep getting cut – there’s not enough business for full-time work. Fewer people are taking their pets to the vet or buying home improvement items or lawn and garden products or even getting the medical care they may need – these are our kids’ employers.
Take a look around – our "leaders" are lying to us, spying on us, breaking the law, spitting on the constitution, and making you feel like you’re the traitors for pointing it out. Who decided that I can’t possible love this country more than anyone else – I love it so much I want it to be better than it is. That is why when I see deliberate damage being inflicted in my name I’m going to speak out - loudly and frequently.
Take a look around – our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, nieces, nephews, grandsons, granddaughters, and friends are being wounded and dying. DYING! In an occupation – not a war – an occupation we have no business being in. (IT’S THE OIL, STUPID!) Meanwhile, there is a war that we’re ignoring while more and more are suffering and dying; more last month than the month before and the people that are responsible are allowed to go free because our "leaders" have decided that they are not a priority. And I’m not just taking about American lives but the lives of people who only want to live their lives in these countries that are being ripped apart. And before anyone thinks I don’t have a personal stake in this – my son will be deployed for the 4th time – FOURTH TIME! So when someone makes a stupid comment about "no one suffers more than ...." – tell that to the mother who’s child will be deployed AGAIN for a lie or who will never be deployed again – to anything.
Cut the crap and take a look around. Do you like what you see?