And why not it's Friday once again. So what's going on in the world today? Anything change since my seven hour nap? Nah. The Libyans want liberation. The Syrians are getting serious. And nobody is paying attention to Bahrain who want the same thing. For those of you out there who thing this is all about those warm and fuzzy concepts such as freedom, liberty, justice and a semi American way of life you'd be wrong. This has come down to a matter of basic human survival. As the fading memory of just why this all started several months ago ( you may remember a certain out of work street vendor torching himself in Tunisia) it amazes me how short memories are these days. He wasn't fighting for some abstract ideal or political party. He was just trying to survive another day when that small hope was dashed by a greedy and authoritarian government. What he started was the spark of rebellion in the Middle East, but I don't think this shocking show of desperation would have stopped what we are seeing had it not happened. When people come face to face with their own survival they will do whatever it takes to reach that goal rules, laws or social mores be damned.
And now we come to our own country. Just where are we in the long road to survival and where is the breaking point? I'm seeing yet more anecdotal evidence on the one hand of things getting better with friends and neighbors getting back to work yet on the other hand observing more cuts to the already shredded safety nets. Makes me wonder at what point we'll have a societal meltdown. Civility is a very thin veneer you know and a delicate commodity. If they continue to cut programs and the safety mechanisms of society such as police and fire etc. then it's an invitation for events we are now witnessing over seas. And that if you think about it is a very scary thought. To demoralize those who have the job of protecting us is not a smart thing to do. Remember they are just as much a part of the same system.
I have more but again time fails me.
Banks fails later maybe or not.
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For the Us of A, as you say, a matter of the financial breaking point. Once that comes 'round, hell yeah crazy shit can happen on Main Street.
Once half the workers start killing the other half, unemployment will plummet at least.
They want control of their destiny. Good luck with that! You know what you have but you never know what you're going to get.
And why not it's Friday once again.
And rain, rain, fucking rain, those assholes could at least share some of their global warming with us.
A lot of dissatisfied Americans should be benefiting from a costly object lesson in the consequences of bad election-day choices. That, and not the heavy hand of a dictator's police-state tactics, got us to where we are now.
Those bad choices were to vote in Republicans and their tea party auxiliaries or to not bother to vote for Democrats.
Fortunately, Americans still have the option of voting the bums out. If they keep blowing it, that option might become so compromised that it's worthless or even be taken away for good. Then, you would have the makings of a revolution.
....yeah, and if the Demos wern't so goddamn complicite but I'll just go shite in my hat and hope for the better, what?
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