Unscrupulous Nature of of Politicians and Politics

Unacceptable. That represents the word best to describe how white folks on capital hill treat poor people, under the hill. At stake is HR 4213, which I now refer to as the Human Rights bill. I find it utterly preposterous how anyone who makes an average salary of over $100,000.00 can capriciously play Milton Bradley board games with the lives of human beings. Again, the social schemas are resoundingly evident. You do a favor for me, I’ll do a favor for you. So the doctors can get paid, while S-corps can easily be funded. That said, what about getting people fed? Incrementally, the economic and social divide is becoming bigger and deeper. Its no longer about haves and have nots, but instead, haves and the done. If you have, then you too can still take your turn at the game called the American Dream. But if you are among the done, you are finished. You are on a down hill slide to the underclass. Now what does it mean to be a member of the underclass? Lets see, in the words of the Clash:

You have the right not to be killed. Murder is a crime
Unless it is done by a policeman or an aristocrat. –In this case, that means some of the folk on capital hill.
You have the right to food and money. Provided of course
You don’t mind a little investigation, humiliation, and if you cross your fingers
A little rehabilitation.
You have the right to free speech, provided you are not dumb enough to actually try it.

It is amazing how those words which were written under a republican administration actually have merit in a democratic administration.

I’d like to add a few to this:
You have the right to health care, provided you can afford it. If you cannot afford health care, the state will provide an expedient burial for you, of course at a nominal fee at the local landfill.

Case and point, I’m still in awe about the woman who elected to shoot herself so that she could be seen by emergency room medical physicians… That’s the state of America we live in today.

No you do not have the right to a job, but we will quickly provide you with room and board if you commit a crime. As much as I hate to make this analogy, it’s easier for someone to live who is an inmate. As an inmate, where rehabilitation is a joke, you at least get “three hots and a cot” and of course health care. You even get a job, though it may be making license plates, you at least get a job with a salary of a quarter a day. Granted it as I said it is an absurd analogy but our incarcerated population gets better care than those who have been laid off, lost their house, lost their dignity. But it’s like that and that’s the way it is—Walter Cronkite or Run DMC.

I would love it if some of these elected to the bourgeoisie, those who live this glamorous life of the “cult of celebrity” actually be forced to take up residence in the slums, the prisons, the ghettos the places they are so removed from, the places they politicized and criminalized, and experience some of the real world decisions the underclass have to make daily.

Here are a few:
1. Gas or groceries?
2. Doctor or groceries?
3. Take a job that pays less than the minimum wage or work in the underground economy
4. Buy the next anesthetizing bottle of booze or seek treatment for alcoholism.
5. Do I take my family to a shelter or move in with my children?
6. Fast money or no money?

These are just a few of the decisions folks have to make, to guess what; survive. Sad, yes, the reality of many, regrettably true. We have more sympathy for a pelican in the gulf than our neighbor being evicted from their home.

Welcome to my United States of America….