my take?...
1. Nintendo spends twice as much advertising to our children than we do educating them...
2. War and Famin are on their way....and rid'in hard in the last stretch to get here...
3. "WE"....are Rome.
as the poor laborers FLOCKED to the city of rome to live off the welfare like give-aways of wouldbe politicians and statesmen...farmers flooding the city as their fields lay in waste....living free in the city off of the many politically driven "Give-Aways"....REFUSING TO LEAVE...reluctant to go back to their plows...and even Great Ceasars Guardsmen killing them in the streets could not drive them from the city and chase them back to their plows...and as Ceasar was a visionary..he alone now knew the end that would soon come....and that the end that was coming to his people was so horrific that Burning The City To The Ground was a far more pleasant ending...than what was in store for him and his people....and the emotional weight of knowing....that history would record that.....
he...(ceasar)..was their leader at the time of their peoples greatest failure.
"Our 0wn" have already given us away folks...from the inside out...the sad part?....we let it happen...and as it turns out?..our generation will be the first generation thgat's ever left the next generation "LESS THAN"...any previous generation ever left their children in the history of our nation.
We will leave them an economically pummeled nation who's credibility as a world leader has been crushed....FUBAR...in a world whose ecology has reached an imbalance greater than ever previously recorded by man.....as they tattoo, pierce and mutilate themselves in revolt of our shortcomings....our children.
I work with a master machinist whose busted his azz all his life...raised two children...set his wife up years ago with a local window tint biz that operates to this day...and through lifes circumstances and medical issues that seem to keep cropping up on him with his age?...and through no fault of his own?....last week i told him...
"Damn Dave...you look like he11....are ya having problems at home or didja drink too much cheap whiskey last night?"
His reply?...
"Neither."
Me: "Well whats up brother?...you feel'in okay?"
Him: "No."
then sheepishly with head hung low...he confides in me...
"With the new prescription laws and prices and our shiddy $150 a week family healthcare rates I haven't been able to afford re-filling my blood pressure meds for a week now....and it's got me all fugged up."
I shook my head and had to turn away to keep him from seeing my eyes well up....with sympathy for him...and the rage in my heart of what things have become....and the shame of knowing that i was not in a position to offer help to this friend of mine who's lifes health is literally a ticking time bomb yet...he still reports to work and struggles through each day.
That's NOT the world our nations fathers father left them.
and i fear that what we leave our children shall be far worse.
L8R, Bill.
