This is the way the year ends not with a bang but with the quiet sound of desperation as people starve...

This is the way the year ends not with a bang but the quiet sound of desperation. The unemployment rate has fallen. The problem is that it’s not the REAL unemployment rate. It doesn’t measure the people that have stopped looking for work because the world has become a hopeless place for these people; they can no longer provide for their families and they are at the point where unemployment benefits are exhausted. Sadly, unemployment has become a political ball to be tossed back and forth by Democrats, Republicans and those Tea folks all of whom are hopelessly out-of-touch with what is happening to America and Americans. Maybe they just don’t care. Considering all the funny money that corporations pour into the coffers for political parties, I wouldn’t be surprised if none of them really care about what happens to the average American. See guys by taking money from these guys that really don’t want much of anything in return (well, maybe a bill signed here or there that erodes the essence of our capitalistic economy and political way of life).


As we watch more money rise and poverty continue to crush more and more people we have to realize that the success of being THE dominant power has backfired; we’ve been able to bring economic success to a lot of people. Unfortunately that economic success has come to CEOs being rewarded for driving our economy in the ground through risky, insane investments that it takes a degree in mathematics to understand. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow with the middle class increasingly becoming the nothing class—they have nothing they can aspire to because they are weighed down with debt (debt I should add that people like Alan Greenspan encouraged them to adopt in the form of taking out the equity of their home then watching the housing market crumble—in essence borrowing phantom money from themselves) and as they have watched wages continue to stagnant for themselves the very people that provide the backbone of prosperity for this nation.

Let’s continue to lie to ourselves about unemployment, pretend that the new jobs being created replace the old ones and that there have been no erosion of wages for the middle class. Let’s pretend that the CEO’s of major corporations aren’t making out like robber barons. It used to be that CEO’s didn’t make hundreds of times or thousands of times or a million times of the average worker’s salary. There used to be a fair wage paid to employees. Multinational corporations aren’t required to do that and they have no national allegiance. The CEO’s of major corporations now only have allegiance to their pocket books, no common sense, no decency, no morals, no ethics and contribute to society in one way—they keep their shareholders wealthy at the expense of the rest of humanity.

Let’s continue to let politicians sell special favors to the highest bidder. Let the favors fall like snow, let them fall like snow, let them fall on all of them because, really, they need a bit of cash in their pockets, too. While this type of behavior has gone on for thousands of years the fact that it has become so widespread and polluted so much of our society without any sort of ramification is frightening.

I suppose there’s nothing wrong with, well, being the nothing class as long as the world continues to turn and someone continues to make money. In the world someone will be employed; in the world someone will be fed just not the people you see begging for food for their children or themselves on street corners. We could be cold and just state that they aren’t taking all the jobs that are already out there of course these are the jobs that have increasingly seen more and more funds pulled from them to filter up to those that really need it at the top. They should just take the money that they are offered. They should not be disappointed that they aren’t given a livable wage. Really it’s their own fault and the reason so many people are unemployed that we don’t count—it’s their own fault. They’re lazy. Those thoughts will allow us to sleep at night. God bless us everyone.