Well it's been a while but I have been working for "the man".
Thinking back on what happened to this country in my lifetime and further into my parents.
I was born in the mid 60's to a single income Anglo family in the Midwest.
According to my now deceased father, work was easy to come by in the 60's.
By his own accounts to me, if you didn't like your job, you quit and walked down the street to another decent job.
Now you might be a garbage man or a plumber or a assembly line worker but the fact of the matter is you could get a good, stable, secure job that rewarded longevity and responsibility.
Fast forward...my parents had three children total and managed their whole careers to have a single income family in the 80's as we, the children matured into the workforce.
The 80's.
I found numerous great jobs, sure with some connections but frankly they were jobs with a future..something real to keep for experience.
Engineering, Design, Computers....etc.
Careers with potential in other words...no McDonald's or fast food otherwise involved.
The middle class still had the fighting chance then...but it was going fast and no one seemed to care for much other than their own well being...after all it was the 80's
Fast forward to 2000's....jobs are scarce and if you do find work, chances are you have a middle man or contract house taking half of your effort in pay from you.
Employers have little to no intention of ever hiring you because...frankly...in terms of health insurance and pension your a liability waiting to happen.
Contract houses want you because they will take the health and liability risk for say 45% profit on your labor with their only responsibility being to process your paycheck and paperwork....easy beans for maybe 20-30-40- thousand a year on your effort.
The middle class is slowly destroyed by the machine and if you ask anyone who knows anything about American economics...destroy the middle class and you might as well destroy America by atomic bomb.
No seriously...we went from a single income structure to a dual or plural income structure of family units in the country virtually overnight...one generation...way to pump up that gross national product...feel it paying off?....better off than your grand parents were for the return on effort?
Ask your grandma and grandpa what they think of how things work now...most of your labor goes for national infrastructure or as I like to call it "payola for rich f#cks who can't even run a business and need a bailout because we went to the skull and bones society and frankly are better than the little people."
Thanks to the last 8 years of republican rule we each owe , yes each , man woman AND child owe $40,000 each to national debt....WTF is your kid waiting on?
Tell then to get a paper route or something they have some debt to pay off.....f-ing free loaders!
I mean c'mon how old is your kid anyway?...get a f-ing job already!
Some bombs cost $10,000 or more so your life is worth about 4 bombs now....still going to back republicans?
I met a republican today at work...he was great...the nicest man...from a totally different era...but he was great.
I know why too.
He wasn't mad, he wasn't vindictive, he was funny, he was light hearted....he was an American.
Americans have one thing in common, we ALL have the best intentions for our country at heart.
We may be right or wrong about how to do it but we ALL CARE.
We ALL LOVE OUR country.
So as I heard from Barack Obama and as I understand it he heard from a republican..........never doubt the motive of your political opponent.
You may be right, they may be wrong, or vice versa...but the intention to help is there, not hurt.......that is what being American is.
You may not agree with your brother or sister but they are your bother and sister...therefore your allies....always.
So are we better off?
No.
We are far, far worse that those before us...it's a simple truth...deal with it.
BUT...
We are Americans...let's make this work...I want your kids to be able to quit a crappy job and walk down the street to get another job...a better job.
Welcome To Detroit
