Showing posts with label egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label egypt. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Rolling Blackout

While Egypt struggles for their freedom, and National Signing Day is here for football, much of America is shivering in the freezing cold.
Even though it is the second winter in a row that snow has shut down airports, we still do not seem to be prepared.
It does seem that climate change is coming faster than we will adapt to it. Many still do not believe that it is here. Don't worry, the doubting Thomas-es will soon be convinced.
In the meantime, we have rolling blackouts, total electrical failures, and frigid temperatures to contend with.
What actually boggles my mind a bit(not much seeing as so many seem so dead set against the poor and elderly) that they let Senior Citizens homes, residences who have elderly and babies, freeze in the cold while they worry that businesses cannot do business because of the electric failure.
How many people will freeze to death in their homes while the rolling blackouts continue? How many homeless will not make it through this night, let alone this winter?
Do we know?
Will we know??
Does anyone even care???
The electric was off for hours at my child's school. Something they did not seem to think the parents should be made aware of, evidently, as no one called. There was no heat on the bus either, when the children finally came home from a freezing school, and an ice covered freezing bus they were very, very cold.
So when the children start hitting the Drs and Hospital emergency rooms with pneumonia, perhaps the great politicians who are supposedly looking out for us, can cut more out of health care and medicaid, after all, we cannot afford to keep people alive and healthy.
Certainly not our kids.
Par for their course, and another mind boggler.

Monday, January 31, 2011

What Happened to the 60s?

What happened to the people who were not afraid to protest?
In the 60s, you could find protests around every corner. Mostly protesting the war, it is true, however there were numerous other protests, also.
Now it would seem people are to afraid to protest.
Why not?
Firstly, it would seem that most people are not that anxious to go to jail.
Secondly, it would seem that many people are afraid of repercussions if they protest something that the government odes not wish to be noticed.
Thirdly, we have been told and told we are free. So what on earth is wrong with us? Why would we want to protest? We have the best living conditions in the world....at least that is what they would have you believe. What have Americans become?
A nation of whiners?
That is what at least one pundit would have you believe. Of course, he is setting on the news getting paid good bucks to run his mouth and run us down. It would be a pretty safe bet that he has, among other things, an IRA, a KEHO and pretty good money invested in various stocks and bonds. In other words, he is not hurting.
How long would it take for him to start complaining if he became homeless, moneyless, and friendless (although, I would not think a jackass like this would have many friends).
However, I digress.
Why is it that people in general will not protest until it becomes so obvious, so painful that they just can't stand it anymore. Why not protest when you first see the inequality happening?
Why wait until the opposition is set and protected and law-ed in?
America was founded on protests.
Not by the rich, but by the poor do we owe our county.