This will be short... you may feel free to criticise me, rightly so, for posting such a short diary. Likewise a diary that doesnt provide new facts (though that seems the norm now..)
A girl i used to datehad to leave two her kids with family. She's homeless now "living" with a guy who abuses her. I dont have the money to rescue her.
One of my best friends hasnt has barely scraped together money to feed his kids for the last two weeks because another friend gives him some work doing construction... ten or twenty hours a week at 10 an hour. They havent paid the rent in two months. Theyre supposed to get kicked out next friday. His children will go to his (EVIL) ex wife. He is trying to find a place for his Pregnant wife to stay. He plans on living in his car.
I have two female friends with kids who have lived with their families for two years and cant get a job. Cant do anything. They both suffer recurring depression.
I have other friends with things almost as bad.
Noone gives a flying shit about statistics or what the economidiots who helped create this disaster (and are still... doing just fine) have to say.
If things dont change SOON it's going to be the 1930's all over again.
For those unaware the 1930's saw the rapid rise of Naziism and Communism in the United States. Despite the pablum fed to us by our media and our propagandahistory classes there were in fact large rallies of both in major cities across the nation. Not only were the democrats and republicans concerned, even our military was. To top that off.. even our veterans were rising up
Theres no FDR to save the day..instead we have Hoover and Hoover jr. (no offense to the Presidents most ardent supporters.. but he is NOT an economic liberal)
Our party seems to be pretending it isnt happening and blaming the gop. The gop seems to be celebrating and blaming the democrats.
Its time to take our heads out of the sand and DEMAND the democratic party stand up for working people. If things dont change soon this country will burn. It almost did before. It's up to US to stop that from happening.