They protested being denied service at lunch counters, what happens when it's your nation's capitol?

[originalpckelly]

It seems to me they have a "no poor/middle class served" policy in good old Washington, D.C. I'm tired of being a second class citizen in my own country, aren't you?

This was a pretty smart deal. You wait until unemployment benefits need an extension, and you make people sweat. Make them think those benefits could go bye-bye. Then, you decide to do something about a problem that's been known to exist for about ten years. At the last minute.

I hope I'm not the only person who made it through the education system in recent years who's actually capable of seeing just why that's wrong.

I hope I'm not the only person, in general, who see's the rank hypocrisy of a class that expects the poor and the middle class to pay up with austerity measures, but won't do shit when it comes to paying up.

To be sure, there are even billionaires who stand with the little people. Warren Buffett for example, has talked about how he, a fucking billionaire, pays less a percentage of his income in taxes than does his assistant.

For years these people have been raiding the social security trust fund to reduce our deficits. Deficits that have been caused, in part, by these fucking tax cuts. Then they come out talking about how the retirement age is going to be lifted, even for people who take early retirement. Those people are usually the poorest. I KNOW THAT. MY MOM IS ONE OF THEM.

Had she been born a little later, she'd been fucked.

I know first hand how you can get fucked. I know how fragile life is in this country, and how ineffective our safety-net really is.

AND THEY WANT TO EVEN CONSIDER CUTTING IT?

That's why I'm livid. My own personal experience. Experience, I gained years ago as a kid. I've lived in a house that's in foreclosure. I know what it's like to come home everyday from school, wondering if this is the day the eviction notice will be on the door.

I'm disabled. I'm not a normal person. I admit that. But I know how awful it is for people like me. I've seen it first hand. I've seen people scrape together and share shitty and unhealthy meals, and then people wonder why they have diabetes more frequently or why they're so overweight.

But you know what? I've also seen the wonders of sharing and how, if there is a God, people like me are living with real morals. How they are truly walking the walk. They don't even talk the talk. They just do it. They're grateful for even having a place to live or to have food to eat.

This nation could learn from people like me, not me, but people like me. I'm a sorry example, to be honest. I'm lucky. But I know my luck is temporary. I'm committed to changing this nation so that it's a little less temporary, not just for me, but for you.

We have to work together, because we're all we've got folks.

The truth is that people like me have been robbed. The least among us health-wise are suffering. And these assholes want more? They just more, and more, and more. And it never seems to stop.

Well, maybe we need to make it stop. Maybe we need to sit-in at our national disgrace, our capitol. Hell if I know how I could get there. Fuck it, I'll walk if I have to and sleep outside. But we need to stop this now.

Will you help me? Could you think of ways we can truly change this nation? Via peaceful/non-violent means? Let's begin a dialog, as to how we can transition from a nation of the haves, to a nation of all the people.

[Angry Dragon]

1. 10 million people walking on the White House and Congress

might make them notice.........

[originalpckelly]

3. We shall overcome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q

[DJ13]

2. K&R, you speak for me as well