Still in the crapper and it is a New Year

If you were to put me back to about 12 years ago and tell me I would be a wet blanket when it comes to holidays, I would have laughed in your face. I must tell you that 2013 put a bitter taste in my mouth when it comes to a lot of things. Holidays were the most affected by this crappy state our country has found itself in.  I imagine 2013 being the closest thing to the Depression of the 30's that we can get before rich people start plummeting to their deaths off the empire state building again. 

No, I do not believe the economic conditions of this country have met the demise of the pockets of the wealthy. Not yet.  They have been affected very little by the things that our current government is submitting the citizens of this country to.  It is the average citizen and certainly the poor that are in the proverbial rock and a hard place.

Working full time means that you simply have a job. Unless you are doubling what minimum wage has to offer, you are not even scraping the top of what you need to sustain your family and just survive.  On top of that, if you have children, that is even worse.  Children are in more danger in this world than they ever have been and latch key kids are nearly illegal anymore as well as the fact that there are a great many expenses when you have children on top of what you are already have.  To continue on this vein, the cost of utilities are going up, the taxes on purchases are increasing, and the cost of everything in general is skyrocketing. All the while, those that make the good money are being replaced by some worker who is so desperate for a job that they will be willing to do your job plus three others for half of what you are being paid. Companies will definitely replace you for that. That is less they have to pay for three times the work. I can see that makes sense for the pocket of the big corporation. Does it make sense for them in the long run? Probably not because they will go through twice as many workers before there is one that is willing to be their sheeple and beckon to their every call.

Us average citizens are now working for nothing to get nothing and are terribly miserable. Further, we are facing increasing expenses that we cannot afford and this is just to LIVE.  Once you get to the point that you are unable to maintain, you lose everything and are faced with homelessness then the rich people want to kick you around like a rock and treat you like you are beneath the dirt under their shoes.  Where does that get you?  Absolutely nowhere.  The owners of the companies making the products and services have to then increase the prices of what they offer just so they can maintain and it is still losing revenue because less people can afford their commodities.

While the affects of the poor are upward reaching and things are terribly hard, what the rich can do is not something that the rest of us can. They have a hoard they are sitting on and while there is still some sustenance to that hoard, they are ok. The rest of us are out of luck only to find the government forcing us to spend money we do not have on things we are too busy working our fingers to the bone to use.

Has it become a socialistic tendency in this country?  Maybe.

What do YOU think?

WAR....Good God Y'all.

I found myself watching a music video which had used scenes from  the movie Saving Private Ryan.  This video was also set to my favorite song and that may be what has me started on this emotional rant. While watching the video, I found it to be quite graphic and began to imagine how horrible it would be to actually live through something like that.  I am not referring to survivors remorse or PTSD or any other after effects of war but just to have the experience and the images that result from it burned into your memory until you either lose your mind and forget or pass on.

I have never been a fan of war and find it silly that there are people willing to go fight and put their lives on the line for some aristocrat (or politician, if you prefer) that they have never met. All for the sake of “saving the country.”  Are they really doing that or are they pawns in a chess board that these evil leaders have and are being pushed around to see how much chaos they can cause for the peons that depend on them to rule the masses.  It truly is something to think about.  Think about it I have. ALL DAY LONG.  There was some lag time at work and we were sharing YouTube videos to keep each other ‘s momentum for work.  Usually, they are funnies but this particular day it was all music.  Not so interested in what other people listen to, I went on my own and began watching the video I mentioned earlier.  Since then, I have been thinking about this war issue and it is eating away at my very gut because it is a horrible, horrible situation to put people in and they go into these thing so willingly and blindly and come back disturbed, maimed, damaged, dead, or not at all.

Looking at the excerpts from Saving Private Ryan, it was a reference to the D-Day invasion at Normandy.  I am certain the movie creators did their best to depict the raid historically accurate and with the technology available during that particular war, people were watching their team mates and friends blown to bits not even inches away.  That is something I cannot even fathom.  To be in the middle of all that fire and all that destruction; trying to cover your own ass and not get killed yourself and to turn your head and see the person you have become best friends with or the person that “has your back” simply explode into bloody hell has got to be a very sobering experience, no matter how cold hearted you are.

Yet people do it…..every….single….day.

For powers that are who could care less about them as an individual. Only that they are of the masses that are sent to fight a war that likely started off as a spat between two spoiled people with a bit of power underneath them to intimidate and show that they can run things. Horrible, horrible, horrible.

Now, for you readers that know my philosophical side must know that I am to touch on the whole good vs. evil argument and the Utility of it all.  Because of the very nature of humans, they have to have some sort of control over things or there would be mass chaos.  They even have to exhibit control over themselves or there would be no such thing as good at all.  Life would be unbearable and mortality would be as close to triple digits as it can get without eradicating the whole species.  So, there must be control and not everyone is a leader.  Those of us who choose to step back and let others do this messy business of being leaders remain the sheep, or the pawns in the chessboard for the ones who WANT and DO lead (yes, not can and are able to because not all leaders can lead and not all leaders are able to lead,) to push around and play their sick little game. I refer to it as a sick little game because when people find themselves in positions of power, they tend to become corrupt and use it for a personal agenda instead for that of the greater good.

We have the evil people in power pushing the “good” people around the chessboard. These good people would continue on with their lives without even knowing that there is a spat going on amongst them in power and would not care in the least about it. HOWEVER, the powerful use the masses to push their agendas of greed and such and it directly affects the masses and they are pushed into the conflict. When that happens, the masses become aware of the powers conflicts and begin to form an opinion of sorts while others simply go off to fight whatever fight they have been sent to fight blindly believing that they are doing something for the greater good.  Maybe it is to protect their own lands but they are away from their homes and families.  In the modern world, that is protecting the home land from afar but at what cost?  Yes, there are horrible bombs and things that are capable of mass destruction but when there are multiple nations involved, what is it really protecting? Sure, we have so called friends and allies that we have agreed to help when they are being bullied by another country but, think about it.

You are fighting in a war because those in power are having an angered dispute about something political or some selfish disagreement has occurred and those people are causing YOU….the insignificant non leaders in the human race to go an risk your lives to watch yourself be horribly disfigured or to watch someone you have come to know as your friend or acquaintance blown to bits right in front of you.  For you to sit there and inhale their blood-spray or to eat a chunk of their flesh as you scream in horror at the atrocities that are going on around you, is unspeakable.  All this mayhem while the political aristocracies are sitting in their big rooms throwing about orders that will get you and your brethren killed. You believe this is the right thing.

Here is something else to think about. Why don’t THEY go out there into some foreign land, wearing countless pounds of warfare regalia and fight amongst themselves to resolve the issues they are spatting about.   Let them spray their  blood on the sands of the beaches and end the wars that way. What then?  Would that fix it or create mass chaos?

What do you think?

Please suggest topics for me to rant about here.

I have tried to do some daily nonsense here or there and my failed attempt at word of the day has led me to try something different.
While I still anticipate continuing the word of the day, I want to add something more. I like to compose. While I prefer putting pen to paper, it is much faster to put finger to key.
This one is short and sweet and I want suggestions on topics from all of you. Please comment below and suggest things for me to post a rant about and that I will do. If I do not get many rant suggestions, I will have to come up with some rants of my own. However, I prefer to be creative and involve the faithful fellow facebookers in my quest to "publish" something in a public quorum.

Cheers! **Holds up long stem crystal with self draining ice and the finest soda in the nation....COFFEE!" (Did you expect any less?)