The Storm Has Been Brewing

I'm sort of a pessimist. I just don't see things getting better and I really can't get past the idea of Hurricane Katrina and the treatment of the poor people in New Orleans. The real problem wasn't the hurricane, the problem is poverty. Although a hurricane can be a big problem poverty is an even larger problem stares these people in the face every day. We all know hurricane's have eyes in which the center area of the storm is the strongest. Well poverty has an entire body and it has to have millions of tentacles because it reaches all parts of the world.

We have a problem America. We have a problem that George Bush and the Republicans won't admit to. The problem is quite frightening because the middle class is disappearing and the growing ranks of the poor are drowning in the despair that comes from their poverty. The White House knows this because they seem to have change the way that the Department of Labor catalogs jobs. They will tell you that we have job growth but their idea of growth is sort of false. The are replacing the disappearing manufacturing jobs with the service jobs at the ever growing glut of national franchises. Let me think is a job at a Starbuck's anywhere near as financially rewarding as a job at GE used to be? I don't think it is possible.

Think about it, how can we as American's obtain our American dream when Wal-Mart's in my area have shut down entire small town shopping districts? The American dream is just a dream and poverty can be hell on earth. Have you ever wondered why heroin is the largest employer in Baltimore, MD or Camden, NJ? If our country is so worried about promoting capitalism worldwide why can't we stem the flow of something to our streets that is so devastating? How do you expect the local Iraqi people to become entrepreneurs when they don't even have electricity now? How change this storm before more are devastated? I think we have to vote for change and become more involved in politics.