Ok, so it MAKES ME SICK!
I am SICK of being spoonfed LIES!
It MAKES ME SICK!
I hear all of these things in the news EVERYDAY and it MAKES ME SICK!
To think that they just passed a budget that cuts $50 BILLION from programs such as MEDICAID, FOOD STAMPS, and college loans and the PELL GRANT(of which I am a recipient) and voted to give themselves a $3,000 pay raise when minimum wage has not risen since 1997!
It MAKES ME SICK that we are TORTURING PEOPLE around the world in order to protect our FUCKED UP policies driven by the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES and we are NOT DOING MORE to STOP it! We have the PRESIDENT about to use the FIRST VETO of his so far five-year administration to abdicate the use of TORTURE! THAT'S RIGHT! FUCKING TORTURE!
Excuse my language, but I am PISSED!
THIS IS NOT WHAT I INTENDED! As a good citizen, who pays taxes, works TWO jobs, goes to school full time and strives for HONESTY and KINDNESS, this is NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR. I DID NOT work as hard as I do to just ROLL OVER and LET this happen!
There HAS to be a WAY to STOP all of this! Our founding fathers foresaw the inevitable, the best power and corruption that money can buy. I am SURE that the context of the CONSTITUTION was meant to prevent just what is happening.
We HAVE to get CAMPAIGN FINANCE under control! Otherwise WE will NEVER have a VOICE, only the LOBBYISTS will...
We HAVE to stop TORTURING people... whatever their skin-color is...
We HAVE to RAISE MINIMUM WAGE... If CONGRESS gets a $3,000 increase in cost of living wages, why can't I make more than $5.15 PER FUCKING HOUR? WITHOUT a degree, which I CAN'T AFFORD, so I have to rely on FEDERAL grant money,...
BUT WAIT... they just cut THE FEDERAL GRANT MONEY...
To give THEMSELVES a pay INCREASE that will amount to $165,000+ PER YEAR!
ANOTHER REASON for the cut in spending on "SOCIAL" programs was the EXTENSION of those HEINOUS TAX CUTS that only AFFECT people who make more than $100,000 per YEAR.
How many people do you know that make that much money?
Are they STARVING? Are they HOMELESS? Because you know, we have people who are living right here, in ANYTOWN, USA, right now WHO ARE!
And yes, some are lazy and take advantage of governmental programs. But are we going to apply the "BAD APPLE" concept to this, when we dismiss it in SOOO many MORE IMPORTANT areas? Such as police corruption? Such as the TORTURE of fellow humans?
What are we ACTUALLY going to do to STOP this?
Can we? It is ONLY possible with a GROUP EFFORT, organization is KEY...
I am really open to suggestion...
As a single mother
Who works TWO jobs, with NO health insurance...
Going to school FULL TIME...
What are WE (collectively) GOING TO DO?
We HAVE to do SOMETHING!
Or it is ONLY going to GET WORSE!
Personally, I CAN't run for office...
TOO many skeletons if you know what I mean...
What is someone like me to do to CHANGE things? For the BETTER of EVERYONE?
I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNOW...
crossposted at http://indigoprogressive.blogspot.com/