HOPE WAS A JOKE
We cannot progress as a nation, when the majority of our citizens are being crippled. We should not be "fighting for the freedoms" of others in outside countries, while we allow our own to be taken away.
More than half of my generation is not receiving standard health checkups, treatments for their sicknesses, and proper attention to alleviate their growing depressions. We cannot be a strong nation, when we are being suffocated by debts, living below our means, struggling in an unfavorable economy, and lied to everyday through our televisions, computer screens, and radios.
It is beyond evident by now that our Nation does not exist to serve the people. It exists only to serve big business. After all, that is what capitalism is all about - $. Traveling within America now costs more than traveling overseas. And to travel, we are also being restricted by the number of bags we can carry -- AND the contents we carry in them! So not only are we being crippled to fulfill a healthy livelihood, but we are also being crippled just trying to get around. We have fought so many wars in Arab oil-producing nations ...yet our gas prices are through the roof. If we control those resources now, then why are we still being raped at the pump?
Not only that, our God-granted rights as human citizens are being ignored and are steadily decreasing. If our America truly cared about us, it would not allow our jobs to be taken overseas - it would try to provide incentives for businesses to STAY in the country rather than turning a cheek to the corporations who hire cheap labor outside our borders. How does this benefit our country? It only benefits the citizens of other countries.
If our America really cared about us, it would have raised the standards of our current healthcare services so that personalization would have never become a fading ghost of the past. Our doctors would not be forced by insurance companies to treat us as statistics, and everybody would be entitled to affordable treatment regardless of pre-existing conditions, employment situations and job titles. It has been talked about and they say it will happen, but when? After our sick parents and friends all DIE?
Why is it that teachers are being ill-equipped to do their jobs and are being laid-off - while useless senators and other fat cat politicians take from the public to further fuel their atrocious personal spending habits? Why are prices going up, but opportunities to progress are going down? Why have our freedoms been decreasing, while the freedoms given to big businesses are only increasing without bonds? And why is it easier for a business to relocate, but not us? Why does a criminal in a business suit who steals millions simply get a slap on the hand, while a 21 year-old stealing money out of a register get twelve years?
Think.
-- Suzy Kassem
A woman who loves her country, TRUTH, and FREEDOM.
