The government has picked winners and losers. The winners are those with a seven figure income, government workers with a guaranteed pension, and those either right below, or at the poverty level. Everyone in between is facing higher costs for everything, worrying about the diminishing purchasing power of their money, and is not seeing anything that hints at necessary changes.
Why is this happening? Too many government officials sold their soul, ignored their vow to uphold the Constitution, and placed their grandchildren in debt. Big business, as well as lower income individuals, have successfully nestled against the belly of the country and suckle at the teats of public money.
We have the media to report about such things. The only problem is the media is as woefully clueless about the real world. Those in the media - at best - had an early life experience of working with their hands, or in a menial job, which is only a sour taste of what is reality for hundreds of millions. They can't understand what it means to spend every summer, maybe for decades, waking two hours before sunrise, preparing for the day, and spending the next ten hours in heat that literally kills.They'll report about the deaths, or the hardships, but they're still clueless; and their concentration is sensational occurrences, or opportunities to expound on their self-proclaimed brilliance with world matters.
This won't last. Never has; never will. Ignoring those that make it all happen never leads to anything but turmoil, at best, and retribution, at worst. You can't exclude the importance of the producer to allow those that spectate a cushy existence, and those that run the government a better life than those that hired them to take care of the business of government.
Time will tell how this all works out, but the dissatisfaction of those that turn the nuts and bolts is becoming more apparent daily; in spite of the narrative of those that produce nothing but expenses, and hollow words. My advice is they pay attention. Civility is an orphan, when survival is a necessity.
I am hearing more and more rumblings from those who get up every single day and go off to a job. They say they are tired of working to feed people other than their own families. They express a certain amount of anger at paying for illegals free health care when their own insurance rates have increased dramatically. My youngest son is of the opinion that each welfare recipient should have to pass a drug test before receiving their free stuff. After all, he has to pass one to keep the job that provides tax money for the free stuff. His brother concurs. They are right. So many feel they are being punished for being hard working industrious people. And they are.
ReplyDeleteIt's too easy to receive free taxpayer money. That needs to stop
DeleteGreat piece, Jess...well said. And, I agree.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteI think my opinion is shared by enough to make a huge difference in the United States.
What you say is true, which is why the borders are wide open for the purpose of diluting and eventually drowning us.
ReplyDeleteI hope the next President enforces laws and makes it difficult for aliens to reside in the United States without documentation.
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