Why aren't we rising up?

Our schools are in disarray. Don't people understand that learning is our only means in Capitalism? Unless they were counting on having welfare babies to pay for everything.. that might actually work.

Meanwhile, those of us want to actually work and do something we like to do, something that makes money.. well we're screwed. No one helps through college and therefore many have to just work instead of being educated.. then most of us are so poor that we qualify for welfare.. we never leave that tax bracket.. our economy suffers and people start losing jobs.. then we have this mess. Great.

So what are we going to do about it? I have some suggestions but I know people will start screaming that "THAT MONEY IS MINE MINE MINE I DON WANNA SHARE!!" Then leave.

-welfare reform

Does anyone else find it absolutely disgusting that a 6 time felon, one child removed from her care, becomes pregnant in rehab by another rehab "patient" and can collect all sorts of money based on the child she irresponsibly had (doesn't have to work or anything) and yet a student, who is TRYING to get an education in order to get a better career who will be able to pay taxes one day is turned down for food stamps because they lost their job?

How about the fact that so many people are screaming in the streets about "WAAA WAAAAAA I DON WANNA DO PUBLIC HEALTHCARE BECAUSE DATS MY MONEYZ!!" while they're not saying or doing ANYTHING about said loser collecting living wages for a FAMILY from the state?

Backwards much?

-education system reform

How about K-12, EVERYWHERE, that is worth a damn? Yes, that's right, run by the FED so that local governments can't teach what VERSION of history they feel is appropriate. You're kidding me, right? Gee, I wonder why there are so many uneducated/stupid people in America. It couldn't be their lack of education, nope.

How about, say, not sending kids home every summer? Very few kids/teens work on farms anymore, so why are we still on this 9 months on, 3 months off schedule? This doesn't make sense. We end up losing most of what we learned and spending half of the next year reviewing. We don't really LEARN that way.

How about, instead of giving hand outs to little miss I-can't-seem-to-understand-contraceptives, we take them and give them to the people who are trying to MAKE something of themselves? Or do only rich people and losers get hand outs in this country?

-media reform

The whole truth and nothing but the truth is only acceptable in our courtrooms, so why all the BS on TV? Why are people allowed to be told half truths and mislead into voting against their own interests? Freedom of Speech, sure! Freedom to lie and mislead a nation? Nah, sorry.

-remove religion from the government

I'm sorry, I don't tell YOU how to live, I don't come into YOUR house and tell you how to have sex or with whom you may have it, I don't have to approve who you love before you're allowed to marry them.. so please, LEAVE ME ALONE.

-new economic system

Clearly, capitalism isn't working.. too many people out there that have their own agenda. Before you go screeching unholy devil at me, I am NOT suggesting COMMUNISM. That is another extreme. Say it with me; the opposite of sick is still sick. :D

That being said, a definite lack of JOBS is being seen here. Even when you get a job, job security is a joke. No, it's not as bad as it could be, but if you want to have a stable economy you MUST have a stable workforce. What we NEED is a hybrid of Capitalism and Socialism.. a rock bottom, if you will.

Yes this will require people to pay more taxes.. but wouldn't it feel better knowing that you'll never be sleeping in a tent on the off-ramp next to I-5? Yea I thought so too.

-mostly, for people to stop. WHINING.

I'm sorry, but if you make over $100,000 a year with a family of 3 and you're constantly broke.. that isn't you being "taxed to death".. that's you not being able to budget and overspending on shit you don't need.

Like a 4 bedroom house and 2 brand new cars.

Not really my business what you spend your money on, true, but if I have to hear one more asshat whining because the gom'ment is "stealin ther moneh" or how broke you are as you're going to your very expensive hair stylist then to get your manicure and pedicure, I'm going to scream.

JUST some things to think about.

Recovery

A trooper, Gabrielle Giffords. Alive and well. I know it sounds cheesy but this survival gives me hope. Hope that reason can also survive, rather than extremity.

The American Nightmare

Welcome to the real world class of 2010- No one wants to hire you!

Unemployment rate for college grads is highest since 1970

No one needs you, 2010

"Over the next several weeks, hundreds of thousands of Millennials will graduate from institutions of higher learning. They will celebrate for several days, perhaps longer. Then they will enter a labor force that neither wants nor needs them.

They will enter an economy where roughly 17% of people aged 20 through 24 do not have a job, and where two million college graduates are unemployed. They will enter a world where they will compete tooth and nail for jobs as waitresses, pizza delivery men, file clerks, bouncers, trainee busboys, assistant baristas, interns at bodegas."

1967

"I wheel my two-year-old daughter in a shopping cart through a supermarket... and a little white girl riding past in her mother's shopping cart calls out excitedly 'oh look, Mommy, a baby maid!'"

-Audre Lorde ("Hispanic")

Small goal #1:

My friend and I have decided that banning corn syrup in the state of CA (production of corn syrup as well) is a good idea..

..getting it on the ballot. Need to research some stuff though.

This is a reason for fury

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/24/news/economy/thebuzz/index.htm?fb_ref=fbLike&fb_source=home_multiline

..yet again.

Career Goals

-Major in Law, focusing on Civil Rights and Labor Law
-Minor in psychology, sociology and philosophy

-to enforce and incorporate any candidates for public office to only recieve and make use of public funding for election campaigns

-greatly reduce the amount of corporate lobbyists plaguing Washington DC

-make minimum wage the minimum cost of living (as it applies to holdhold sizes not exceeding 4 individuals)

-forbid employers from EVER requiring an employee to forsake a higher education to dedicate their time to any current employment (this will not mean that you can simply ignore your employment or abuse your employers)

-ensure that employers cannot inquire an employee's (or potential employee's) union membership status nor forbid any employee from being a union member

-to have GM, Mack Truck, Firestone, and Standard Oil of California rebuild the public transit torn apart by them in Tulsa OK, Montgomery AL, Cedar Rapids IA, El Paso TX, Baltimore MD, Chicago IL, New York City NY, and Los Angeles CA

-close loopholes that corporations take advantage of in order to (in the long term) take advantage of employees; right now this country has checks and balances for our politicians to be kept in line.. but corporations and companies are running amuck.. they have NO balancing system. There needs to be one, period, end of sentence.

-education reform

-welfare reform

I would like to be THAT LAWYER who makes the corporate rats (and that by no means means that ALL corporate workers/employees are corporate rats) shake in their boots when they hear my name, or even a reference to me.

People are not commodities, they are people. It is time that the average household does not need 4 separate jobs/incomes in order to keep their heads above water.

Ultimate goal:
I want to give this country back to the people, not the corporations.