What in the world is going on in my country?
Since the country's beginnings, we were joyously given an opportunity to follow happenstance, and our educations, guts and intuitive capabilities allowed us to go forward to pursue our own place in society or farther. Individuals - with beliefs that could reason, and now especially in an age where most certainly those with differing views, skin-tones and sexes can make a difference - make a name.
And yet throughout the Americas, groups of people have deemed themselves numbers or percentages, and perhaps this to belong to a collective - to give themselves a "small-group" in which that number could have significance; a big fish in a small pond.
Our country has grown in population, but why does that have to diminish the individual to a numeric category.
Americans have lost their creativity, so much so that names do not matter unless one is at the top of his economic or political ladder. Washington DC (which by the way has the richest population per capita in the United States) and the banks do not care about any single one of us, unless we are voting for them or buying into their loans.
The difference of course between the two of these entities is that one group can either lie or backtrack on their promises, and the other one, in order to save its slimy scales, will word contracts that we willingly sign in the "lawyer-speak" - thereby making it difficult to understand, nudging gently into agreeing with what in hindsight is completely ludacris; the word "mortgage" means "til death".
One more word regarding banks, especially those who promise school loans, car loans and mortgages - read the words (the fine print too - and I know that it's hard to understand) and then remember this "Caveat Emptor". Difficult? Don't sign!
I am not a number.
I wake up 4 or 5 depending upon what days I am opening the business. And work 50 to 60 hours a week. My wife, who I love more than bread, works another job, which actually helps our business. I do not have cable or satelite TV. I pay my mortgage. I pay my dang'on student loan to a company that I paid for that is now being handled by some jackass that lives in Pakistan. We have health insurance, it's bloody expensive, but it beats the alternative. My health care plan is exercise and restraint. We give personally and through the business to countless organizations throughout the community including to public school systems whose unions are among the strongest and hungriest in the country. We pay a lot in taxes and with more than ten employees are constantly under scrutiny and unwarranted tax obligations and adjustments.
I probably belong to a number or a percentage. I just don't care to know what it is.
I am not a number.
- neither are you. So stop acting like it!
Since the country's beginnings, we were joyously given an opportunity to follow happenstance, and our educations, guts and intuitive capabilities allowed us to go forward to pursue our own place in society or farther. Individuals - with beliefs that could reason, and now especially in an age where most certainly those with differing views, skin-tones and sexes can make a difference - make a name.
And yet throughout the Americas, groups of people have deemed themselves numbers or percentages, and perhaps this to belong to a collective - to give themselves a "small-group" in which that number could have significance; a big fish in a small pond.
Our country has grown in population, but why does that have to diminish the individual to a numeric category.
- I am the 99%.
- I am the 53%.
Americans have lost their creativity, so much so that names do not matter unless one is at the top of his economic or political ladder. Washington DC (which by the way has the richest population per capita in the United States) and the banks do not care about any single one of us, unless we are voting for them or buying into their loans.
The difference of course between the two of these entities is that one group can either lie or backtrack on their promises, and the other one, in order to save its slimy scales, will word contracts that we willingly sign in the "lawyer-speak" - thereby making it difficult to understand, nudging gently into agreeing with what in hindsight is completely ludacris; the word "mortgage" means "til death".
One more word regarding banks, especially those who promise school loans, car loans and mortgages - read the words (the fine print too - and I know that it's hard to understand) and then remember this "Caveat Emptor". Difficult? Don't sign!
I am not a number.
I wake up 4 or 5 depending upon what days I am opening the business. And work 50 to 60 hours a week. My wife, who I love more than bread, works another job, which actually helps our business. I do not have cable or satelite TV. I pay my mortgage. I pay my dang'on student loan to a company that I paid for that is now being handled by some jackass that lives in Pakistan. We have health insurance, it's bloody expensive, but it beats the alternative. My health care plan is exercise and restraint. We give personally and through the business to countless organizations throughout the community including to public school systems whose unions are among the strongest and hungriest in the country. We pay a lot in taxes and with more than ten employees are constantly under scrutiny and unwarranted tax obligations and adjustments.
I probably belong to a number or a percentage. I just don't care to know what it is.
I am not a number.
- neither are you. So stop acting like it!
