America Is Not Broke! It's Just Broken.....

Van Jones & Greg Coleman at CCBC, Catonsville, MD today

Have you ever heard the statement: “The rich get rich and the poor get poorer”?

Well this is exactly what has been going on in this country since it began. And this is what is going on now, right in front of our faces and under our very noses, because of Voluntary or Involuntary Ignorance, Mass Hypnosis and Political Apathy.

During the Frontier Days, (which is where Republicans want to return); there were only certain classes of people who did well, who did not starve to death, freeze to death or get destroyed by predators.

It wasn’t the Original Americans; (The Indians), because their land was forcibly and violently taken from them through Violence, Deception and Betrayal.

It wasn’t the slaves who were forced; to work the land for free, that was stolen from the Indians, which they did under some very Painful, Dangerous and Deadly circumstances fueled by Hatred, Ignorance, Fear and Greed.

And it was also not, (in many cases), the hired help who were the “Have-nots” who worked for the “Haves”.

No! It was the landowners who had Sufficient Wealth, Power and Influence, which allowed them to not only survive under some of the most primitive conditions in human history, but to grow and prosper as well, and provide adequate support and protection for their families.

At that time, many of the people who held these advantages felt like only they should have these advantages.

Fast Forward to the 1930’s and 40’s when the Labor Movement, (which got its start in 1882, when a parade and picnic was held in New York to bring the workforce together), known now as Labor Day; blossomed with the formation of the CIO, (Congress of Industrial Organizations).

This was the beginning of Organized Labor Unions in America, which created such Humane Concepts as Child Labor Laws, Worker’s Rights, 40 Hour Work Weeks, Vacations, Paid Time Off, Sick Time, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Safety in the Workplace, etc.

These are all things that are important to humans who work and who have the responsibilities of protecting and providing for their families.

Now of course as a result of this human inclination towards survival that turned into a movement, “The Haves”, “The Establishment”, “The Powers That Be”, “The Man”, “Republicans”, or whatever you call them, did not want “The Have-nots” to have an opportunity to take anything from them.

And I understand that! Because I don’t want anyone to take anything from me either that I worked hard and honestly to have.

But not only did “The Haves” not want “The Have-nots” to take anything from them, they also wanted to prevent “The Have-nots” from having a fair chance at having a life that got progressively better as a result of their labor.

So in other words, the people who were willing to fight to the death to protect what they owned, were the same people who were more than willing to take away the rights of the people who worked to build and maintain that which they owned, down to the very basics of Human Needs.

But as a result of the Labor Movement and the strength that it gained thru the 40’s and 60’s, those who employed other human beings to work for them were forced to be fairer to the people who worked for them, and to at least meet some of their basic human needs-such as a Honest Day’s Pay for an Honest Day’s Work.

However, even though the Labor Movement gave birth to the Middle Class in our country as a result of its successes that allowed thousands of decent hardworking individuals the chance to live “The American Dream” of providing for their families, protecting them and supplying all their needs; the Dark Forces that relentlessly seeks to have complete and total control of all wealth, all power and everything continues to work behind the scenes to take away all that has been accomplished.

As a result of these dark and evil forces and mistakes made by many of the unions themselves; the labor union’s numbers and strength began to decline thru the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.

And “The Powers That Be” pounced.

Now we are at the crossroads again between Equal Distribution of Power and Wealth or Domination of “The Many” by “The Few”.

So what’s going on?

Well!

America is not broke.

It’s just that one political Party and some in the other party, are trying to once again, “Take It All”.

It’s not that we have less money to spread around.

It’s just that there are a few people in this country, about 1%, who already control the majority of the wealth and power in this country and because of their greed, they want more. And they are willing to hurt or destroy people whom they do not know or could care less for; like the sick, the poor, the uneducated, the middle class and those who are trying desperately to rise above their present dark circumstances and make a better life for themselves and their families.

You can see this in their constant attacks against Food Stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Student Loans, Pell Grants and all other “Entitlement Programs” that they can divert funds from the bottom and “Distribute” to the top.

You see!

These people believe that giving Welfare to those who really need it is Communism, Socialism or Marxism.

But giving millions of dollars a year away with Massive Tax Breaks, Complex Loopholes and Gigantic Subsidies to Billion Dollar Corporations who do not need it is “The American Way”.

But the fact of the matter is: If we stop giving Millions and Billions of dollars to rich people and major corporations and stop letting rich people who are so damned “Patriotic” that they do not want to contribute to the strengthening of the roads and bridges that take our children to school and our families from place to place by the millions on a daily basis, that do not want to see our kids educated so that the future of America will be safe, secure and progressive (like other countries), provide Affordable Healthcare for their fellow citizens so they will not suffer and die unnecessarily, invest in science and technology and 21st. century medicine, that will take us from the Barbaric Medicine of the Dark Ages into a new age of medicine that will heal without harming and cure diseases that are currently not being cured deliberately, for the benefit of profits; see the unnecessary loss of human lives and American dollars for wars that are staged just to create massive profits and a host of other things that have proven to be disastrous to our country in the distant and recent past.

And the only way that the people who are trying to do all of these evil deeds to 99% of the people in this country can succeed, is if they can convince 99% of the people in this country that America Is Broke.

America Is Not Broke!

It’s Just Broken…..

But it can and will be fixed with the Knowledge of Evil, the Power of Truth and Focused and Organized Political Action by “We The People”.

This small But Significant Group of Corrupt Politicians, False Statesman, Hateful, Greedy, Racist Patriots, must be forced to submit to the will of The American People.

And it is up to us to make it so.

So please for all our sakes, please continue to talk to each other, share information and knowledge with each other and stand with each other to make it so.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Frederick Douglass