I went to lunch yesterday, McD's dollar menu, with three friends. It is all we can do anymore, I am retired disabled and 2 of the three have lost their jobs. But we are long time friends, so where does not matter.
Accross from us were 3 tables of senior citizens, all they can do for a lunch out too I guess. But their conversation was clear and (becuase of hearing problems) loud enough for us to hear.
They were dealing drugs, no shit, pain medication. Why?
They were hungry.
They get paid monthly, as do I. At the beginning of the month all the money shows up, you hurry up and pay everyone you can, then try to survive until the next check.
They are not making it. Seems that in the third and fourth week of every month they are out of food, and out of money. So they were discussing how to sell pain meds on the street to make enough money for food. Now mind you I live in a small town, I see some of these women and men shopping with me at the Dollar store, getting the 80 cent pot pies, and all the 2 for a dollar vegetables in cans, I won't eat the meat from the dollar store, all they ever have is nasty looking chicken. But one of those women at that table buys it every month. They discussed the food pantry, we only have one. And how the food supply there is drying up, so what other choice do they have?
Seems they gathered that day, to discuss strategy. Where, when, the least dangerous way to get this done, who are the least dangerous dealers, police enforcement and going rate.
One woman began to cry because she felt was depriving her cancer riddled husband the relief he needed from the pain, he patted her hand and said "I am strong, you still need to eat"
I was so ashamed, to be an American, we are so large that we can not feed our seniors or our children anymore? No that is not it, it is the money behind our elected officials that keeps us in this stalemate of a government. Hell you could reinstate full welfare on the money lost on IT projects alone.
http://www.gao.gov/...
How can any senator or congress-person take their paycheck and sleep at night? How can our president, and vice president and all those appointees take their paychecks and sleep at night?
It will not change, as long as our Elected Officials need to raise billions of dollars to get elected. They need insurance co's, Pharma, the Fortune 500 NEED them, so we will starve our Seniors and our children, deny welfare, and in general run our country right into the ground, for campaign dollars.
Occupy Wall Street'ers; Wall street will never change either under this current Campaign Legal strategy either. Try Occupying congress for this change and the rest will follow suit.
http://www.opensecrets.org/...
http://www.opensecrets.org/...
it goes on and on..........
9:16 AM PT: One more reason for real campaign finance reform (1+ / 0-)
and lobbying reform. Those should not be right vs left fights. They should be right vs wrong fights. A socialist friend of mine who is in terrible financial shape told me on New Year's Eve that we won't see any real changes made in this country until we have fully public elections and get the money out of politics.
So say we all! Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined version)
by nerve on Sat Jan 07, 2012 at 12:08:55 PM EST
11:02 AM PT: We are calling this the "Awakening", where America Wakes up, and goes for Campaign reform first, social programs second, finance reform third. Let's get this in order, if we stand together on one platform they can NOT deny us ever again
12:54 PM PT: http://i1015.photobucket.com/...