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In reply to the discussion: Video Has FoxNews in a Panic!! [View all]Goodcrow
(1 post)I have watched what the rich have done for 5 decades and tried to warn people but my words fell on deaf ears. The start of this was in 1966 when I could walk down any street and stick my head in a shop door and say I need a job. I would have one before I got three doors! Then the government told the rich they didn't have to pay benefits if they laid off people just before Thanksgiving and hired them back when they needed to do inventory. SO, that is exactly what they did!
Then the EPA came in and closed down the mines where I worked claiming that the lead dust was a hazard to the miners health and to the town. Then they closed the Cement plant for the same reason. That was followed by them claiming that the fish couldn't get up the river because of the dams so they stopped all hydroelectric dams. Then they stopped the local loggers from logging because of the "Spotted Owl" and they allowed Japanese loggers to come in and clear cut the mountains and then they shipped the trees 200 miles off the coast of Seattle where the Japanese processing ships turned the timber into plywood and sold it back to us. That caused the cost of a sheet of 3/4 plywood construction grade to go from $11.00 a sheet to $44.00 a sheet overnight!
Then they began laying off people and closing plants and sending our jobs overseas claiming that the Unions were asking too much money and they couldn't afford us anymore. When we caught them on that subject they then said that it was because we lacked the education and skills to do the jobs they had. Truth was they didn't bother to find out if we had the skills or education. They sent the jobs to China and Korea and Afghanistan and India and they brought farmers in out of the fields who obviously had more education and skills than we did here in America! Then they taught them to work in sweatshops cranking out stuff to send back here and make Wal Mart rich and Apple.
I still kept working at whatever I could and I was one of those people that did the migrant work that no American would want and I worked in the fields next to the Mexicans doing the same work. All the time the Government kept telling the middle class it was the poor that was the source of their problems because we laid up on welfare and took food stamps and made babies and didn't look for work cause we were lazy! Of course the middle class bought it and they preached it for years. All the time housing and rents kept going up and up till I couldn't afford to buy a house or even pay rent on one. The middle class wasn't worried they had credit cards and big houses and many cars and boats and ski doos and ATVs all on credit. Then one day the house of cards the rich built fell down around their ears and the too big to fail banks and insurance companies who pillaged the poor and middle class for years wanted a bail out! So everyone let them have it. THey paid themselves Humongous bonuses for failing. They went after the middle class and foreclosed on their homes and blamed them for going into debt for stuff they couldn't afford and then put them out in the street!
Now those people that used to be middle class and called me lazy are now in the same boat as I am and they want pitty! Well somehow I don't feel all that sorry for them after decades of being called lazy and having to take migrant jobs and setting sprinkler pipe in knee deep mud for ten cents a head in January with no coat and pneumonia just to feed my daughter and wife. Because of the rich and having to work part time jobs and migrant jobs I have never made more than $7000 a year! But I got my kids raised on it and now I am old and broken down and retired and get $4440 a year from Social Security and God help me if I get sick because I can't pay for medicare or Medicaid and I don't qualify for anything from the state. The Insurance companies will let me have a quarter of a million in death benefits for $29.00 a month. They want 395.00 a month for health insurance! So in short they want me to die but they don't want me to live! If I go to the bank to cash my social security they charge me $15.00 for cashing my check. I can get it at wal mart for $3.00 if I do it there. If I could afford to have a bank account with $10,000 in it I could get it done for free. So not only did they make me poor but they penalized me for being poor my whole life. However there is one thing they did not do! They didn't take my faith, my honor, or my soul! They made me a survivor! I will use my last ounce of energy and my last breath speaking out against this kind of ME attitude and the constant blocking anything that will help the working class! I went without food so I could buy a computer so I am able to have a voice. The rich will play the races and the classes and everyone against everyone as long as they can keep us divided! They blame anyone they can to take the heat off of themselves. If we don't put a stop to it there won't be any America to be proud of!! We have to shine the light in the darkest recesses of Wall Street and Big business and Big Insurance and get the prices down so we can afford the American dream that my father and mother knew. We have to HARP on JOBS JOBS and MORE Jobs till they spend some money on the poorest sectors of our society. They cry for billions for some third world country to feed the starving kids and the warrior class steals the money and food and medicine and blows up our cities! They want to take away my pitiful social security all $376 dollars a month of it! How about we take the entitlements of Congress first they get paid for life no matter how long they serve! Lets deal with THOSE entitlements first! Lets feed OUR starving and educate OUR children not teach some son or daughter of some terrorist how to go home and teach others to make bombs and such to destroy us with! Ok I have spoken my piece! God Bless America because He is the only one that seems to care!