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Wandering around again…

Well…I’ve been in too good a mood today to get outraged about anything so I thought I’d just talk about a few things and see where it goes…I did see a red-tailed hawk right next to the trail this morning that had a cloud of sparrows around it that were attacking and trying to drive it away. I could have reached out and touched it…almost drove off the trail watching…have to pay more attention, I guess. I did read an interesting article about the rioting that is taking place in Europe in response to the austerity measures that are going on there where the people are being asked to pay the bills for the financial malfeasence of business and the rich by having the social contract there shredded like it is here. The question that was asked was “can that happen here?” and the only answer I have is that I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet. With the bills that have been paid by the middle class to subsidize the rich getting richer, what can be the outcome if the politicians that are supposed to protect the little guy abdicate that responsibility to fill their pockets? There is no longer any way for the poor and middle class to get their grievances redressed since they don’t have the money it takes to be heard in this money driven political system.

Hmmm.do I have an answer? No, unfortunately I don’t….and that is the problem…no one has the answer, or an answer that can be implemented in today’s political climate. Maybe mass demonstrations and riots are the only answer that is left for us….

Why not here?

Well…in reading all of the press about the events in Egypt, one thought just came to me…these people are protesting the theftocracy that has been running their country for the last 50 years and the media is all gung-ho about covering it…but, the question that immediately popped into my head was “why not here?” When it has been determined that it is noble to fight against the entrenched power and the cronyism that has stolen so much from the Egyptians, I see a parallel to what is going on in the US right now and the media just ignores it; and our politicians call it capitalism. The rich, connected and business are doing exactly the same thing here that has gone on in Egypt for the past 50 years…maybe in a more subtle way….if it is so noble for the Egyptians to fight, why are we that fight for the same thing here in the US called socialists, communists, or worse…un-American? Is it different here that the wholly owned subsidiary of business, the Republican Party, works every day to take away from the middle class and give more to the rich and business when the ruling party in Egypt does the same thing? Show me the difference between Egypt and us.

We need our own Tahrir Square where business and the thieves that run them are called out, where the workers that built this country are given the voice that has been silenced by money and power…until that time we are just a more developed Egypt…waiting for the smoldering embers to become a flame…geez….