For the forth day millions of French people are continuing a country wide strike against their own government. Why? Because their government wants to raise the retirement age from 60, to 62.
Millions of French workers striking over a two year increase in retirement, while Americans continue to take it in the rear with taxpayer bailouts of banks that screwed over the financial industry, banks that are screwing over homeowners with a foreclosure fiasco, a Federal government that is screwing over its citizens in favor of corporations, and state governments that are cutting budgets to the bone because no one seemed to see the coming economic collapse. Hello!
People, the United States of America was founded by Revolution. That Revolution inspired other famous revolutions, like the French Revolution. The French obviously have no problem continuing that tradition. But what happened to the birth place of modern citizen revolt, called, the United States? Many of the founders of the United States stressed the importance of periodic Revolution by the people in order to keep government in check. Yet, it is considered un-American to talk about Revolution. That is a sure sign that our country has been high jacked, and is being run by people who have no intentions of doing what is right by the People.
Maybe it’s because the People have become too dependent on their governments to solve everything. The proof of that is the election of Barak Obama, because the People hoped he would bring change from the top down. But here’s what Obama said, several different times: In 2008 “Real change comes from the bottom up, not the top down.” (goqnotes.com), and again in 2010, “Real change comes from the bottom up, and that is why we are here.” (c4ss.org). Comedian Jay Leno has even questioned Obama’s running for President because of these statements. After all, if real change comes from the bottom, why did Obama run on the Hope of bringing Change to the United States? Because the People are lazy, or fearful, and Hope that the government will do it for them. Another way to take Obama’s ‘change comes from the bottom’ statements, is that he is subtly telling us that we, the People, are the ones who need to take action, to Revolution.
Or maybe it’s because, despite increasing school budgets year after year, since I finished high school in 1982, the quality of our grade school education has dropped like a rock. Americans are dumbed down. A prime example of our failing education system, both public and private, is the wacko political candidate named Christine O’Donnell. In a recent debate she stated that we were in Afghanistan to “…finish the job…” against the Soviet Union (www.youtube.com). What? I thought it was to get Osama bin Laden because of September 11th, 2001? She also said we were in Afghanistan in the “…80s and 90s…”. Nooo, I don’t think so, not officially anyway. We supported Afghans (Afghans that we are now fighting) in their fight against the Soviets, which ended in 1989. Also, the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. There is an old saying: Stupid is as stupid does. (Maybe she really is a witch because her supporters seem to be under a spell)
Or maybe it’s because our government is actually spending our taxpayer dollars to spy on those of us who do stand up and challenge the system. Yes, the state of Pennsylvania revealed that they hired a company, co-owned by Israelis, to spy on activists. They spent 103,000 taxpayer dollars to do so. It was part of a Homeland Security operation. The result? Pennsylvania Bureau of Criminal Investigations chief, George Bivens, said the Israeli-American company’s spy report on the activists “…is unsubstantiated gossip.” (english.aljazeera.net). So they just took the taxpayer money and ran?
People of the United States, we can not afford to act like the proverbial frog in a pot of water, that is slowly heated until it’s too late to escape, and we are boiled alive. Wake up!