The Human Guinea Pig

Some would say that God created all the heavens and Earth and all the people who occupy it. Also, those same people would say that everything, in life, happens for a reason. For the first time in my life, I think I figured out that reason.

What if life was this large experiment? What if God was the one who was sitting up in his or her perch listening to what we all say? What happens to the white guy who expresses his hatred towards black people and blames them for all of the problems in The United States? Are we to believe that man reaches the end of his life to decay in a casket 6 feet under the ground, or are we to believe that he dies only to be reincarnated as a black person who lives in poverty? How about the person who claims to be a devout Christian who claims that homosexuals are a plaque to society. Following my theory, that person would be reincarnated as a homosexual. And it is what they do in their new life that helps shape their next life. I would imagine that this process of dying and living and dying goes on for several cycles. However, the last cycle will always involve a position that involves power and authority. Some wise person once said that if you want to know the character of a person give them a position of power. To me, it makes sense that if someone uses their power to benefit humanity they will ascend to heaven. However, if they use their position of power to serve themselves in the form of profit then they will spend an eternity of hell. The next question should be where is hell?

What happens to Dick Cheney?

I find myself in extreme levels of emotion when I think about all the great talents that have died at an early age. Jimi Hendrix, Keith Moon, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Kurt Cobain, Jon Erik Hexum (Google him) John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy are all dead and millions of us are forced to dream at what was to become if they were still alive. They are all dead, but Dick Cheney is alive.

Everything happens for a reason. I now firmly believe that these fine young people who died so early in life died because they fulfilled their destiny. They used their power to benefit humanity. Did they abuse drugs? Absolutely, but if God created all the heavens and the Earth he also created all the drugs on Earth.

However, the one thing that God didn’t create was money. And if you ask me, hell is paved with Wall Street C.E.O.’s and politicians. I used to think that hell would be a cool place, but I’m going to work my ass off to ascend to heaven because I really need some guitar lessons.

Dreaming of The Love That Once Was

I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be Superman.  I’ve just wondered what it would be like to grab Lois Lane by the arms and fly with her through the air.  Watching the excitement in her face when I’m doing something that just comes natural to me. In awe of the man that I am. The super man that I am. I had my Lois Lane, but love sometimes doesn’t end like they do in the movies.

I was twelve years old, my parents just got a divorce and I moved into a new neighborhood. Just as I was trying to soak up the new experience…there she was.  She was walking down my street with her sister and a friend.  I didn’t know it then, but she was the hottest girl in the world.  However, what I did know was that I was in love.  Of course, I didn’t know it back then.  It was inconceivable for a twelve year old to be in love.  At least, around the time I was growing up.  It was the summer of 1984.  She had the most amazing smile, and her hair smelled so nice.  I was just so shy.  In many ways, I found myself acting like Superman’s alter-ego Clark Kent.  I was just so awkward, but she saw something in me that I wasn’t able to see.  As the summer started to unwind I had to come to terms with the prospect of starting school.  I was petrified to start all over again.  I was petrified to develop new friendships, but I had a head start.  I made a few friends over the summer that helped me make the transition, and nothing made me happier to see my Lois share the same homeroom with me.  In fact, we shared many classes.  She made it a habit to wave and smile to me in every class, but that was just the tip of the iceberg.

She would often come over to my house after school.  She would come over with her sister, and a girlfriend to hang around with my sister.  I found that odd, because my sister was three years younger.  My sister was in elementary school, and it was frowned upon for a junior high school attendee to associate with an elementary school attendee.  What did I know, right?

One day my Lois and I were downstairs in my basement.  There was a bed down there, and I remember her jumping on the bed and her asking me to join her.  I did, and when I did she immediately jumped out of the bed, turned off the light and jump back into the bed.  I was scared, man.  So, I jumped out of the bed, turned on the light and jumped back into the bed.  She then jumped out of the bed, turned off the lights and jumped back on the bed.  We lay there, and I was scared.  So…I jumped out of  bed, turned on the lights and jumped back on.  We both lay there, and proceeded for the next half hour to turn on and turn off the lights.  Despite all this, she still managed to wave and smile to me at school.  We even used to eat together at lunch.  I figured out that she was the most beautiful girl in school when the jocks used to pick on me.  Every time I was with her it was like everyone was looking at us.  Looking back now it was like I was just a normal guy dating a gorgeous movie actress.  This went on for a couple of months, but I started to be very uncomfortable with the attention.  I remember telling a friend once that I just wish she would stop talking to me, and just like that she did.

Believe it or not, we spent the next five years not talking to each other.  We were in homeroom for all of the five years and we were just passing in the wind.  In many of the classes we shared she would sit behind me.  In others, I would sit behind her.  I watched her become the popular cheerleader.  I watched her date the popular football player.  I watched her get flowers on Valentine’s Day, and I heard about her going to all the proms.  

Not a day goes by that I didn’t wish I told her how I really felt about her, and not a day goes by that I don’t wish that I was Superman.  Because, at least, Superman could fly around the Earth a million times to go back to that time when his alter-ego Clark Kent was on the bed with his Lois.  And rather jump out of the bed to turn on the lights I would have just looked into her eyes and tell her how super I think she is.

Of all the regrets I have in life, my biggest regret was never kissing my Kellie…I mean my Lois.

It’s About Loyalty, Stupid

In the beginning, we are all put on this Earth with zero intentions, zero goals, zero aspirations and over time we are molded and sculpted into who we want to be and what we want to do.  It is part nature and part nurture.  It is through the bonding we have in friendships that we develop in high school, college and the workplace that make us what we are.  Hopefully, through the process, we have been guided by our parents in life lessons of what is wrong and what is right.  Many people can tell us what is right and what is wrong, but it is up to all of us to decide for ourselves.  That’s why, as humans, we make so many mistakes.  Making mistakes are all a part of life, and mistakes are designed to teach us the lessons of living.  It’s one thing to make mistakes, but it is an entirely other thing to not learn from them.  

One of the first mistakes we make in life is through our developed friendships.  At some point in time we choose to develop friendships with people who make our lives…well, miserable.  For some people, seeing the actions of their consequences are not feasible..  It’s life in the fast lane. However, some people make friends for life.  They are with each other for every life event.  They attend each others weddings.  They participate, all along the way, in births, graduations, promotions.  We bond through break-ups, divorce and new relationships.  We look to each other for advice.  Each moment in time there is a level of trust that grows into loyalty.  Most people have a sense of loyalty to their family.  I mean, if you’re a person that hasn’t talked to your sister for two years and found out that she was in an abusive relationship it’s pretty safe to say that you will move Heaven and Earth for her, right?

Loyalty isn’t exclusive to just friends and family.  We value loyalty when it comes to the workplace, or we used to.  Decades ago it was common to graduate High School, get a job and remain in that same job until retirement.  My how times have changed.  Companies today don’t care that you’re 59 years old, with a mortgage, two kids in college and one week before Christmas.  When they want to get rid of you they will get rid of you, and they won’t even give you a watch.  As a liberal, this is something that infuriates me.  We’re supposed to be living in the greatest country in the world, but we sure don’t treat our citizens as such.  Our children are receiving the poorest education of any other industrialized nation.  We are forced to live in an environment that allows our roads to crumble, oil pipelines to spring leaks, Wall Street to run around reckless with our pension accounts.  Washington has their loyalties.

Once again, I am a political liberal.  As a liberal, I have a loyalty to the democratic party.  However, if a democrat caves in like a spineless pussy on an issue I’m passionate about my loyalty will be broken.  That doesn’t mean I’ll vote for a republican…I will just not vote.  I believe in marriage equality, civil rights, income equality, equal pay for equal work, sensible gun control and I want to know that the people in my political party share the same values.

As a political liberal, I always seek a cable news outlet that shares my same values.  For a while, I was loyal to MSNBC.  I used to think Olbermann was a God.  I used to love watching David Shuster rip into republicans when they were trying to get away with just another talking point.  I used to just stare into Contessa Brewers eyes, and wondered what it would be like for her husband being married to the most beautiful woman in the world.  I used to tune in to Chris Matthews to see if he had that tingle up his leg.  This was at a time of the birth of Twitter.  The only two journalists that embraced Twitter was Rick Sanchez from CNN and David Shuster from MSNBC, and they engaged their viewers through the social media site.  They did it at a time when many of the mainstream media shunned it.  I developed many friendships with other liberals who shared many of my same interests.  It was a great time to be alive.  Then, Rachel Maddow arrived and the tensions became present–at least to me.  Olbermann was no longer a God.  He became ravished with ego.  David Shuster was let go.  Contessa just disappeared.  They hired a lesser known Ed Shultz.  MSNBC saw the success in Maddow and tried to mold and sculpt other talent.  However, rather than realizing that Maddow was an exception that couldn’t be molded or sculpted into other on-air talent they tried anyway.  MSNBC is willing to give anyone a show now, and it’s very easy to see who will get their own show.  It usually goes to the person who appears on-air the most.  They even give shows to people who are lousy with reading teleprompters.  People like Al Sharpton, Andrea Mitchell, Richard Wolffe and Michael Eric Dyson.  They always have that one guest that just pisses me the fuck off.  Ron Christie is a perfect example.  MSNBC is just not informative enough for me.  They have too many contributors who work for the beltway newspapers, but liberals seem to suck it up.  They love Chris Hayes, even though he’s losing in the ratings to Nancy Grace.  Yes, Nancy Grace.

In a way, I wish I was a conservative.  Conservatives have the joy of watching FOX News.  FOX news is very loyal to their viewers.  They give them everything they want, and the ratings prove it.  The line-up of “talent” has been consistent. The women are so amazingly hot, and it’s alright to put it on muted while vacuuming the house, because they have the sexiest legs and hair and eyes and teeth.  

All I see on MSNBC are people with the sole goal of creating a platform to sell more books, sell more newspapers, increase views to their blogs and nothing to satisfy my appetite for knowledge…and nothing to address climate change, equality, income equality.  All I see is lip service, and for that they do not get me loyalty.

14,965 days

I have been on this Earth for exactly 14,965 days and I am still trying to figure out human behavior.  What makes certain people stick out more than others?  I have always said that we are just a sea of nobodies vying for the attention of other nobodies.  Some would say that is a pretty harsh observation, but sometimes some of the harshest things end up to be the truth.  For me, I see it at the grocery store.  I’ll be waiting at the checkout line.  Three people will be in front of me, and the cashier will greet each one with a , “hello…did you find everything you’re looking for?  Thank you, come again”  However, when it’s my turn I don’t get a greeting.  I’m not writing this to get some sort of pity, but I’m trying to understand why some people act the way they act.  Better yet, why the decide to act the way that they act.

We have a legal system in The United States in which the prosecutor puts on his/her case.  The defense puts on his/her case.  The judge acts as a referee for what the prosecution can or cannot say–or enter into evidence, and the jury sifts through all that information to render a verdict.  Regardless of the jury verdict, the only person that has any “skin in the game” is the defendant.  If the defendant has a lot of money they can get away.  If the defendant doesn’t have any money, and has to rely on a public defender, chances are not so great for them.  If the defendant is a pretty woman chances are pretty good for her.  Over time, this flawed system has the potential to drastically change the landscape of this Country.  African-Americans only make up 13.6% of the population, but 1 out of 11 African-Americans sit behind bars in America.  1 out of 45 Caucasian males sit behind bars, and 1 out of 89 women sit behind bars.  The statistical analysis for poverty follow the same trend. So, if we solve the poverty problem then we will solve the crime problem?  But poor people don’t vote.

In addition to trying to figure out why people act the way they act I also wonder why people are stupid.  The answer to that question is most people get their news from cable news outlets.  Cable news models themselves after our legal system.  For starters they have a host.  The host poses a question for two guests.  One guest takes one side of the position, and the other guest takes the other side, and the viewers serve as the jury.  However, there is a twist.  If the viewers don’t like what they are watching they can simply change the channel.  This action creates a void, and if a network is smart enough they can fill that void by catering programming specific to their needs.

 

Let’s face it, we are a nation of stupid.  FOX News is deliberate in everything they do and say.  Their viewers are the ones that would sentence a person with a minor possession misdemeanor with the death penalty.  They are also the ones that think that if they get really close to the television they can see up Gretchen Carlson’s skirt.  There is no doubt that FOX is a ratings juggernaut, but that’s because there is a void that no other network wants to fill.  The truth is that the “lamestream” media will continue to be lame.  The truth is that the media will try really hard to dumb down America so they can be able to control Americans.   

Wanna know the truth about politics? You can’t handle the truth.

Whether you’re a democrat or a republican the truth is that you support a set of beliefs and are willing to fight for them, but what if I told you that no one was fighting for you?

I often think back to when I was a fresh-faced 16 year-old.  I thought that I was the smartest person on the planet, and I especially thought I was smarter than anyone in my High School.  Oh, the bad things I used to do.  I only did those bad things because I was allowed to get away with them.  Going out, getting drunk, having sex were all things that felt good to me, and I never worried about getting in trouble.  I always managed to get away from it because I led a charm offensive.  I knew, early on, that I had a mother that loved me.  I also knew that it was hard for my mother to stay mad at me simply due to the fact that I spent 9 months inside my mother.  Isn’t that how we all begin our stays on Earth?  The punishment was never worse than the feeling of gratification I had when doing all the bad things I did in life.  However, as I grew a little older and a little wiser I realized that all of the bad things that I have done can lead to some very severe consequences.  Consequences that would not involve me trying to sneak into the house without my mothers knowledge, because I would be dead due to a drunk driving accident or I would be in jail.  Over time, priorities change.  People move on to college, marriage, careers, and growing their own families.  In growing their own families, they often try to learn from their own mistakes.  As much as we say we will never be our parents, there comes a time when that moment happens.

So, what does this have to do with politics?

I decided to stop my reckless behavior because I, very deep down inside, value life.  I enjoy the freedom to do whatever I want without people telling me what to do.  That sounds rational, right? What if someone rewarded me for my bad behavior?  What if someone gave me $1,000 for every bad thing I did.  Would I value my life more than the money?  What if someone gave me millions of dollars in favors, money and lavish outings for my bad behavior?  What if I was a politician and was faced with all these people giving me all these extravagant things.  Would I ever want to leave this job?

The average politician makes $200,000 a year.  They get a salary, healthcare, lifetime retirement pensions, food all paid for by the taxpayers.  Back in the day, politicians used to raise millions of dollars by small dollar donors.  Now, with the Superpacs, they don’t really need the small time donors.  They have billionaires and special interest groups donating a bulk of that money into their campaign coiffures. These truths go for both parties.

How many times do liberals cheer when Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders jump up and down for restoring the middle-class?  How many times do conservatives jump up and down when Paul Ryan or Rick Santorum say they don’t believe in abortion even in the cases of rape or incest?  Whether or not you jump up or down, the politicians don’t care about the issues.  They care about your money, and the more of your money they can get then the more crazy or smart things they will say.

This past week the activists are out for marriage equality.  During this past presidential election activists were pushing for women’s reproductive rights, minority voting rights, rights for immigrants, and I was thinking to myself…really?

We live in the year 2013 and we’re still fighting for the things that we won as far back as 60 years ago.  We’re having to fight for women’s reproductive rights, gays rights, immigrant rights, blacks rights and I’m thinking where is the fight for human rights?  Aren’t we all humans?

The sad fact is that all the things we are fighting for now we will be fighting 30, 40, 60 years from now.  If you think Wall Street is corrupt now, just wait.  If you’re one that thinks welfare and food stamps are the biggest frauds plaguing this Country, don’t be surprised when you have to live on it sometime in the future.  

I have often said that people who donate to charities are idiots, and that is the reason why we will never have a cure for cancer, HIV/AIDS,…herpes.  There is no reward in finding a cure, because these institutions make billions of dollars a year.  And as long as we have people and special interest groups donating money to these “crazy” or “communist”  politicians we will never solve this nations problems.  We will continue to have more mass shootings.  We will continue to have higher amounts of drug crimes.  We will continue to class people into racial groups.  We will continue to see the 1% rake in all the money at the hands of the 99%.  This will all happen while we are all shouting at each other and not holding the politicians responsible.

Tips On How Not To Be An Online Dating Loser

I’m not one to simply just throw my junk out there, but I must say this; women who resort to online dating sites are completely bat-shit crazy. And I’m a resident expert on crazy. I just don’t understand how in a nation of 330 million people it is so hard to find your significant other. I also don’t buy the excuse that people make up for their use in online dating. “I work a lot, and I don’t have the time.” Oh please. Women find the time to do their hair, do their makeup, do their nails, get botox injections, pick out that perfect outfit in hopes of finding Mr. Right. The truth is that most people that resort to online dating are lazy. All they have to do is post a semi-reasonable picture of themselves (from 12 years ago), tell people that they are 6 years younger then they actually are, type an essay that was copied from someone else’s profile and pasted. And just after a few hours men from all over will begin the messaging. Women have the power to accept or reject a person solely based on their profile picture. What a wonderful life. Do me a favor and cross your arms. Yeah, I said it, cross your arms. Done? Okay, now cross your arms again but this time cross it the opposite way you did before. So, if your left arm was tucked on the inside cross it this time with your right arm on the inside. Feels uncomfortable, doesn’t it? See, that is what dating is all about. It’s very uncomfortable, but the more you do it the more comfortable it will become. Face the facts, something in your love life had to go horribly wrong, and now you’re looking for love in a sea of other people whose love lives have somehow gone horribly wrong. Oh, the joy. So, here are just a few tips to not be a loser in the online dating world.

Stop the insanity

I know that you women are looking for your beefcake, just say so. Stop it with this bullshit that you’re looking for an honest, sincere, loyal caring man who is over six feet tall, Caucasian and between the ages of 25-35 years old. Ladies, you just described the average serial killer in America. Jeffrey Dahmer was tall, Caucasian and had a steady job. He also liked to eat people. If you want a tall, attractive Caucasian guy then just come out and say that you’re a shallow person. It will probably be the most honest thing you have ever said in your life, because honesty, sincerity and loyalty is not bound by any race or color. Oh, and if you’re a white girl that feels the need to write on your profile in all CAPS I DON’T DATE BLACK MEN. You’re probably going to attract members of the Arian brotherhood…jus’ sayin’ Instead, just go on and on about how you think Star Wars is the greatest movie of all time and you attend Comic Con every year. I guarantee you will not get a single message from a black guy.

Bathroom pics

Just stop taking pictures of yourself in a public restroom. The biggest take away from that is #1 It’s just stupid and #2 You have no friends in your life that will take a picture of you to post on the internet. It’s alright not to have friends, but taking a picture of yourself in a public restroom just screams to a guy that you probably just finished going down on some dude in one of those empty stalls…and don’t get me going with the duckface pics. Try taking a picture of yourself in a normal setting. I mean, 90% of women on dating sites say that they love to go hiking, camping, fishing, walk on the beach…so…take a picture of yourself on the hiking trail, campground, on the beach!!

Stop asking so many questions

So, you have received 100 messages in your inbox. You decide to delete all the ugly guys (because you’re shallow) and now you have it narrowed to 5 guys. You then proceed to ask these guys a series of questions. Just stop it with the bullshit. This isn’t a job interview. It’s the internet, and questioning someone on the internet is meaningless. People lie, and it’s pretty stupid to actually believe who the person on the other end is really who they say they are. Just be a leader for once in your pathetic life and agree on a date and time to go on a date. Then you can use that time to ask questions, and if they aren’t as attractive as you thought try treating them with kindness instead of getting a friend to call you to get out of it. A date lasts for what..2 hours? I’ve sat through some of the shittiest movies for a longer time, and I was out 20 bucks. Which leads me to my next point…

Don’t judge a book by its cover

We are who we are. Out of the 7 billion people on this Earth we are all unique. We all look different. Some of us are ugly, some of us are attractive, some of us are smart and attractive, some of us are ugly and smart. Either way, beauty is in the mind of the beholder. It is up to all of us to just give people a chance. It sounds easy, but it’s the one thing we lack in humanity. Take the time to just stop and smell the roses. You just maybe surprised. It would also help if, while on one of your hiking or biking trips, you smile at people you might not be attracted to. Just the act of smiling at someone can make the biggest difference in one’s life. Trust me on this one.

Be a leader

I’ve read hundreds of the profiles women have written, and they are all the same. Stop following and just lead. When it comes to dating profiles treat it like you’re writing a resume. Be specific in what you want. For example, talk about what makes you wake up in the morning and not all this bullshit about how you love to go hiking and read books. Unless that is the reason for you to wake up in the morning. Be imaginative, be bold, be a leader and stop setting yourself up for failure. Don’t say that you like watching movies or that you are into sports. Tell the reader who you think is the greatest sports team. Convince the reader that your idea of the perfect movie should be their perfect movie. I often see women describe their first date as meeting up for coffee in case there isn’t chemistry we can both go on our own separate ways. Really? I’m not a genius, but if a guy reads that he’s going to want to have sex with you and quickly dump you for your shallowness. And don’t go crying to the online World when you find out that men are jerks.

Just be yourself

If you’re shallow just come out and say that you’re shallow. Chances are you will find thousands of other shallow people. Especially if you live in Southern California. There is nothing wrong with being a shallow, materialistic, close-minded individual. Come to terms with who you are and broadcast it. Also, do me a favor, don’t go on and on about how your kids are your number one joy–and when asked if you would like to have kids in the future you flat out say NO! You’re basically saying one of two things; You made the biggest mistake in your life by choosing the person in which to spawn with and you’re not going to give your future partner a chance to make the same mistake again–OR–you’re over the age of 35 and you’re afraid of having a child born with some kind of birth defect, which again–makes you shallow. And once again, it’s fine to be shallow. Just be honest. Stop it with the crap about how your kids are your pride and joy. I get it, but that is something that should be shared with someone after a month or two of dating.

…and finally

Be honest

Sometimes in life, the path to the road of honesty is paved with lies. We all do it, and it’s alright to lie a little bit now and then. Yeah, I know. I just spent the vast majority of time persuading women to be honest, but white lies are alright. If you’re on a job interview and your future boss asks you if you love to work overtime you’ll be a fool to say no. You will also be a fool to say that you’re not open to having kids in the future when you have a nest of your own. Just say that you’re undecided or open to having more kids. It will also make you more credible when you say that your kids are your pride and joy. However, that is entirely up to you.

Once again I don’t understand why people resort to online dating unless they are lazy. I mean, there are so many people out in the real world that are looking for the right place, the right time to stop and say hi. However, we have become a society preoccupied with tweets, email, facebook updates, smartphones and PDA’s when we should be taking the time to stop and smell the roses, but if you really do feel the need to resort to online dating there are ways to not be a loser at it.

Let’s Take Back The Government By Not Paying Our Taxes

It has happened again.  This nation, touted as the greatest nation on Earth, is undergoing another manufactured crisis at the hands of our corrupt politicians.  Politicians on both sides of the aisle use words to make people take sides.  Over the years, enough of an alliance is built that splits both sides of the electorate to despise each other.  Over the past 13 years, the conservatives hate the liberals and the liberals hate the conservatives.  In between the levels of hate there consists a set of arguments that fly over the head of both sides.  The media has done a great job of dividing the millions of people in this Country.  Politicians can use racially coded words to get their “base” riled up against their opposition. It’s fun to take sides, but all of these tactics are distractions.  These tactics are deployed to distract people from the real enemy–politicians in Washington.  After-all, what would posses someone to raise millions of dollars to run for a job that pays $100,000, $200,000, $400,000 a year? 

Political Junkie or not, we all know about lobbyists.  Lobbyists are hired by corporate america get payed millions to go into Washington to spend millions on politicians to pass legislation that favors their bottom line–profit.  All of these things that benefit corporate america are brutal for us as Americans.  

We live in a Country that has polluted waters, tainted food, polluted air and are having to deal with severe storms that can be attributed to climate change.  As a nation, we’re having to be forced to fend for ourselves, and as every day passes by we are less safe.  Kids are having to face the fear of death just by going to school.  As horrific as the events in Newtown, Ct, this is the normal in the urban community schools in our major cities.  Every day, in this Country, we have hundreds of children dying in senseless gun violence.  As a nation, we only care about the white children dying.  Again, these events are all turned into distractions. 

For example, one of the biggest distractions in this nations debate on guns is the head of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre.  Have you ever wondered why he goes on tv and says such outrageous things?  The answer is quite simple, he’s the boogieman.  If all the sides tied to the gun debate focus on LaPierre that means that no one is focused on the gun manufacturers.  The gun and ammunition manufacturers (usually publicly traded companies on Wall Street) are allowed to pump out their products without facing pressure from shareholders.  If we truly want to make changes we need to stop buying into the distractions.

Has this ever happened to you?

You work, and work, and work, and work and you keep being told that you can’t get a pay raise because of the lackluster economy.  You take it with a grain of salt, but you look around at all the executives in the company driving around a brand new car every 6 months while your forced to work 10, 20 hours overtime a week.  Over time, you develop a dependency on that overtime income to survive. And, over time, your overtime is used as a bargaining tool for more productivity. Executives starve the workers by cutting overtime for weeks until the employees demand for it, and when they get it they are happy not realizing that their overtime rate should be their regular rate of pay.  This is another huge advantage that the corporate world has over the workers.  All that overtime is a huge added benefit to the employer, and this is why so many companies give overtime to their employees. So, What do you do?  Chances are people do nothing about it.  They just accept it as the normal, and they say to themselves that they will work slower.  That all changes when someone gets fired.  When a worker gets fired worker productivity goes up, profits go up and wages go down.  It’s one of the easiest fear tactics deployed to sheep the herd.

One of the greatest tactics used to herd the sheep is to tell the productive workers that their tax dollars are being used to pay for the unproductive people in this country–the takers.  The takers are the people who collect welfare, food stamps, draw on disability benefits while not being disabled, use Medicaid benefits, but this is all a distraction.  Wonder why there is an attack on “Obamacare”?

We live in a country where 75% of the people are overweight or obese.  We are forced to buy cheap food that is loaded with chemicals designed to kill us.  We also live in a country that is run by a piece of paper–The United States Constitution.  We are a Government created by the people for the people.  However, how are we being served?  Where do our tax dollars go?  Seriously, what are tax dollars doing for us?  The U.S. House of Representatives work 126 days a year.  Their average salary is $168,000 a year.  What do we get for that?  Well, we get the sequester.

The budget sequester is a series of $85 Billion in cuts that happen within a year.  Republicans love cuts, democrats say they hate cuts but both sides agreed to do nothing about it.  They went on vacation without dealing with the biggest problem facing this nation. Where is the outrage of the american public?

The Tea Party keeps talking about taking back the country, but why can’t we all take back the Country?  If the elected officials really wanted to end welfare, food stamps and all those “evil” social programs then why aren’t they in favor of a $15 an hour minimum wage?  First of all, $15 an hour would provide people with a living wage that wouldn’t fill the need to draw off welfare, food stamps or medicaid.  It would also be a burden on the private sector, not the Government.  The Government, in turn, would get more tax revenue that they can use to fund investments.  The investments that are deeply needed in this countries infrastructure needs.  But if this one simple thing happened the media wouldn’t have a wedge to use for ratings.  Think about it.  

If we had a Government that raised the minimum wage, legalized marijuana and actually enforced immigration laws we would be better off.  However, we are forced to deal with wage decreases, a lower standard of living and we are all being used as pawns.

The one thing about the sequestration that is really pissing me off is that members of congress and their staff are excluded from pay cuts and layoffs.  My brother, an air traffic controller, is going to have to be faced with a 20% cut in pay before he gets laid-off.

Can you imagine having your pay get cut by 20% a week?  

 

This is what we, as a nation, are forced to deal with.  But it doesn’t have to be this way.  I have a solution.  Enough is enough, we need to take back our Country.  We need to form a more perfect union.  We, as workers, need to unite.  There are over 100 million of us and only 535 politicians in Washington.  Enough is enough, and all we have to  do is just one thing.  Don’t pay our taxes.

As April 15 approaches, we either have to pay taxes or we get a tax refund.  People who get a tax refund get all giddy, but why?  A person who gets a tax refund is a person who is a fool.  They have given the Federal Government an interest-free loan every week for a whole year.  That interest-free loan has gone to the real takers in this country–the politicians, special interests and war mongers.  The average food stamp recipient gets $3,600 a year while the  average oil company gets 1 billion dollars a year, and behind every one of those transactions is a slick politician getting their pockets lined with green.  Enough is enough.  

If every single worker in America would just simply take a pledge to unite and go tax-exempt on their W4 forms from their employers we can get the leverage that we so badly need.  If 100 Million workers don’t pay their taxes it will send a very strong message to Congress.  Essentially, my proposal is “starving the beast” that conservatives say they would love to do.  If we all do this the Government can’t arrest us all for not paying our taxes, right?  No, but I know what you’re thinking.  Congress will just pass an emergency law that automatically takes taxes out of your pay.  Well, then 100 million of us need to unite by not showing up for work.  Sure, now you’re thinking, “If I don’t show up for work I won’t be able to make money to survive.”  However, remember the power of 100 million.  If 100 million of us don’t pay our taxes, don’t pay our mortgages, don’t adhere to dogma and just stand up for ourselves this will truly be a great nation.  This will be one of the biggest hostage negotiation in our nations history, but I truly think it will pay off in the end as long as we always remain to be a step ahead of the competition.

I know this sounds crazy.  I know that I sound crazy–insane.  However, the demographics are changing in this Country.  In 20 years, the minorities will become the majority.  What does that mean for the World’s largest economy?  Minorities don’t have the same levels of opportunity that whites do.  Why do you think it costs $100,000 for a four year college degree?  It’s so that the privileged few can get so much.  It doesn’t have to be this way.

We are in the year 2013.  Growing up in the 80′s we all dreamed that we would have flying cars at this point in time.  My proposal is a big idea, and it will be a big fucking deal.  Enough is enough! Sadly, we live in a nation based on fear. Too many people don’t have the balls to inflict real change in this Country.  That is why we are forced with the people we have in Congress, and even this president.  This is why we never will be all treated as equals.  This is why the privileged few will continue to run a wrecking ball through the middle class.  This is why we all will be forced to buy this poisonous bill of goods that has been dumped on the American people for far too long, but I do think that there will come a time when the revolution will happen.  Sadly, I won’t be around in that time.