I think I know what Todd Wilemon meant when he said of poor people to stop being poor. He apparently has never been poor, never had to know the panic of whether to pay the electric bill or feed the kids. Mr. Wilemon thinks that its easy to just go out and get a job--to stop being poor. This was the same thing Mitt Romney campaigned on: Were the greatest country in the world, and we have the greatest health-care system in the world, and we have the mightiest miliary force in the world. So lets let the good times roll! Sadly, the good times were rolling only for the Mitt Romneys and the Todd Wilemons in our country. Elsewhere, peoples homes were being foreclosed on; banks were dunning students for loans theyd taken out--only now these students owed more than theyd borrowed, because of fees the banks had charged them. Does that sound familiar? It does to me because my daughter was one of those victimized by the banksters, according to whom a loan of $2,000 had balooned to $5,400--even though it had been paid off years ago! How could they do that? Simple. They refuse to let her see the numbers. Why cant the Mitt Romneys and the Todd Wilemons of our country see that? Why cant they realize that they are of a privileged class? That they are part of the new Gilded Age in our society, similar to the one that Mark Twain railed against at the turn of the 20th century? I used to think that if you presented a logical argument to someone showing that he or she was being unfair to those less fortunate, then this would be enough to stop the unjust behavior. Now I am far less sanguine.Now I think that the privileged class will do anything to keep their privileges at the expense of those whom they are ripping off. The situation is coming to a boil in the State of North Carolina, where I live. The Governor and the State Legislature have used every unfair means to see to it that the poor are kept in their place. Governor McCrory is in the pocket of Art Pope, the multi-millionaire who wants to take the great Tarheel State from being one of the most progressive in the South to being something like it was in the ante-bellum South, a South of slavery and of privilege. Thank God for the Reverend William J.Barber and his Moral March. At the head of NAACP, Reverend Barber attracted 10,000 people to Asheville. He is the moral voice that stands against power, riches, and conceit. Governor McCrory epitomizes all of those undesirable traits, as do his demon minions--Thom Tillis, Tim Moffitt, Patrick McHenry, and all the other lesser servants of Mammon. My wife urges me to temporize, to wait until the bad Karma catches up to these evil-doers. But I cant wait. Were I the Archangel Michael Id bring my sword above my head and extract the vengeange due those whom have been oppressed by this wicked bunch. But I am able only to battle with words, words which I hope will turn out to be mightier than the sword. But just in case theyre not, there are always the barricades.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 22:36:49 +0000