stellauk
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I'm sorry for your experiences.. and wish you luck in finding new employment. It isn't easy.
You know we can be angry and upset at the corporate world and the government all we like, but I feel we also need to be looking at ourselves and maybe doing a reality check. This isn't a situation which has happened overnight and you know, as much as the Tea Party and people like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh will want you to believe, the United States isn't Number One any more and hasn't been for some years. It's the same situation here in the UK, the dars of 'jolly old England' and the Commonwealth are long gone in the past, we're not getting it on a plate any more, and it's time for us to roll up our sleeves and start grafting like the rest of the world.
The problem is is that we've let this situation develop for so long that it's becoming the norm. We've been reading about civil unrest in places like Egypt and Libya, and these countries generally have a somewhat higher standard of living than we have on both sides of the Atlantic.
What do we have? Spending cuts, governments trying to reduce public spending, closing things down right left and centre. Meanwhile we still have troops and expensive military equipment deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting a war on terrorism against a terrorist organization which I'm not even sure still exists.
And nobody is asking questions as to why this is or pointing it out.
We've become too passive generally, we want it too easy, everybody is looking for money and most people are only interested in the short term return.
People have been telling me for years that communism was defeated in Eastern Europe and I was laughing at them. Everybody got too greedy, too expectant, taking the path of least resistance and always trying to take the easy way out.
People get pissed off about the banks and corporations exploiting people and being only interested in making profits. But isn't this is what expected from them? I mean, would you put your money into a bank which kept making losses?
We can get pissed off all we like at other people, whether it's the corporations, the banks, the government, the poor, the people on welfare, and everybody else but you know deep down that we are all responsible in some way for what is happening now.
This all started with Reagan and Thatcher believing that we could all have a prosperous society by investing in people at the top and having the 'trickle down theory'. Yeah right. It hasn't worked, and what's more it hasn't been working for years, but steadily collapsing and crumbling disaffecting more and more people.
The solution is very simple. If you can't rebuild everything from the top, then you have to start at the bottom. You start with people on welfare. What do they need? I honestly don't believe that most people on welfare are lazy. A few yes, but most people aren't, and I'm pretty sure that if you gave them an opportunity to work for a decent income they would take it.
The only problem here of course is persuading employers to pay people a decent wage for their work. But you know finding a job isn't the only route off welfare. If you can't find a job be creative and start your own business, company, start up a band, set up a theatre, learn new skills, new interests and try and work it into an occupation.
I agree with the OP entirely, there's more to life than making money, there's more to life than work, but if we just sit back and let things happen it won't get any easier. Nobody is going to go out of their way to hand things to you on a plate. Nobody.
Every single human being on this planet is capable of having ideas and being creative. Every single person in this world knows something, knows people, and whether we like it or not, there is no excuse for poverty anywhere in the world. Throwing money at people and feeling sorry for them hasn't worked. They don't need money, they need opportunities.
If the people in power spent less time telling everybody what to think and believe and more time actually getting things done it would make a difference.
You see it on a section here on the boards, Politics and Religion, people on the right bitching about people on the left. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
This is the problem Americans have right now with culture. For years America has been isolated, Canada to the north, Mexico to the south, oceans on either side. Pretty much isolated. Americans use the Internet like everyone else, and the whole world is learning far more about American society and culture than Hollywood ever taught us, and the whole is becoming aware of how Americans see themselves and relate to each other in society.
It isn't a pretty sight. The States is just one country in the world. It's no longer number one, the rest of the world isn't that bothered about Obama, it doesn't care about Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, the Confederacy, we have our own political situations to deal with and our own problems. Everyone in the world is struggling right now. But you know, it doesn't matter that America isn't number one any more, but it's got to be said that some of you guys need to lose that 'us' and 'them' mentality, you need to get over yourselves and stop bitching about neocons, liberals, socialists, faggots, the Tea Party and start showing some solidarity and working together not just for yourselves, not just for Democrats, not just for the GOP, but for everyone who finds themselves in the States today, irrespective of who you are, and where you are in society.
Change always starts with the individual. It isn't just the government, the corporations, your employers or even society which determines what happens to you, it's also you, your attitudes and the decisions you make.
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