911 Anniversary

    I am tired of hearing the pompous 911 coverage of late. It has been nearly ten years. Get over it. It happened, we've moved on.  Which is exactly what we are designed to do.  People are wired to get on with their lives, its an important part of our survival mechanisms. Move on, learn, and grow. Remember, but don't dwell on the past.  The excessive "anniversary" coverage seems to me to be more a ploy for ratings rather than sincere, genuine feelings.  Why did all of America tune into the constant 24 hour a day news during that day? Because it was riveting, disastrous, and most important of all, full of genuine feeling.  So a big Fuck You to NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, and any other annoying news network I have forgotten to mention.

     Find some genuine news, report something worthwhile and risky such as the fact that I believe more families in America are going hungry than the government would like us all to believe.  Why? Because that's not the America that we want to show the world. An America whose own people are hungry because the central infrastructure is failing and we can no longer support ourselves.  Find a story like that and run with it, fear losing your own overpaid jobs and risk being a rebel because that is what being an American IS about.

     Sure, I am a heretic. I am the working poor.  I have no religion that I passionately support, much to the bane of my own family who think that I should be a Christian. Of which denomination, I know not.  My mom is kind of a Baptist and my dad is kind of a Methodist and neither practice.  I do give them credit for not immediately having their children baptized "just because" and allowing us to choose for ourselves.  Therefore I am not baptized and am surely going to hell in most eyes.

     Just as I raised lots of eyebrows within my own family 15 years ago when I decided I would rather be cremated than pumped full of chemicals, placed in makeup, then left to rot in some plot of ground that would be better used to grow food for the growing populace than to house a community of corpses.  Now, my dad is seriously considering cremation even though he was so very shocked by it when I told him so all those years ago.

     Find a group of friends and debate different ideas, you never know you may strike a chord and actually have a serious conversation instead of those superficial conversations where reality tv is a major topic of banality.  Stir the pot.  Make trouble for your local, state, or national leaders. Ask them the hard questions they don't want to answer. 

     Why is it that I work 40 hours a week and still can't feed my family?  Why do the rich just keep getting more ridiculously rich?  Why are we allowing lobbyists to keep infiltrating our government to the detriment of most Americans?  Why don't we institute term limits on the senate, the house, the supreme court, and all local governments?  Why can't a Joe Schmo run for president?  Why can't the term "public servant" actually apply?  In no way should these politicians be earning more than 9 dollars an hour.  Guess what? That's what the average American now makes. I don't care about your national averages. I want you all to realize that people are hiring in at $7.40 an hour and no matter how many hours you work a week, you can't live on that.  Politicians should have to feel desperate enough to want to apply for food stamps and wonder how they are going to afford a necessary doctor's visit.

    My bills are not ridiculous.  My mortgage is now under $400 a month. I am not drowning in credit card debt. Until Jon landed this crappy Burger King job, I would have to weigh out buying a bar of fucking soap against food and the budget to see if we could afford to shower!  This is America!

     So while the news people blather on about 911, question what the hell it is they are helping the government keep out of the eyes of its own people.