Hello kiddies!

Well, howdy there minions. Some of you probably know me already, some of you have never met me before, and to be perfectly blunt (and grammatically incorrect) it don't really matter.

This is my third blog, and in my opinion, my most important one. Here is where I am going to address what I feel are grave injustices in this crumbling society we all know and love. Why am going to do that? Because I am sick and tired of the things that are going down, and I would to draw your attention away from Lindsey Lohan, Princess Paris and bullshit that just doesn't matter to try to bring to your attention to some real issues going down.

And I am not going to bore you by strictly ranting and raving about how shitty the world is, hopefully I will be able to point all the fine folks visiting here to sites that are trying to change things for the better, weather it's giving you alternatives to the money grubbing corporate cocksuckers that are draining the world of "the dream", pointing out the good guys, and at the same time sticking it to the whores of the world who could very well wind up being your leaders IF YOU AREN'T CAREFUL.

On my other blogs I have tried to show people what the world is coming to. It may have been coming to this for many many years now. I have only recently become aware of it. I, like way too many people in our world, turned a blind eye to it, while I was out there helping to make many corporations rich, and way too powerful for the good of society. Since my other blogs were started for entirely different reasons than my reason for starting this one, and I got some really good feedback from my light touch on the subjects I hope to give forum to here and leave my other blogs to their intended purposes.

I am just a regular guy, and I am not going to pretend to understand all of what I am going to present here. I am probably going to offend some people as I tend to slip into sailor mode language-wise when I get irrate (as you've already noticed, no doubt). I can no longer hide my ire at the state of things in my city, state, country and the world. The rich are getting richer by the minute, the poor are getting poorer by the second, and the middle class many of us remember as children is a dying entity. There used to be this thing called the American Dream (sorry those of you from other countries, they never taught us in school weather or not your countries had dreams too, they were to busy teaching us to conform and be sheep) but the dream is dying along with that middle class, and although I may be living in the past, it breaks my heart. I am literally beginning to feel like there is no future for my children.

Now many (surely not all) of you who have great jobs and everything you want out of life may not be able to grasp many of the concepts I will be presenting here. Usually the people who have it all have very little sympathy for those who have next to nothing. They will run out to 1000 dollar a plate charity functions and make donations to charities (usually for tax write offs that adversely affect the poor in other ways). TV, movie and rock stars love to throw charity concerts and benefits that donate the proceeds that basically do the same. After all the business expenses and tax write offs, very little of the total amount does anything for anyone. Why these people can't pull a few big bills out of their very padded pockets, give them to some needy people without acknowledgment and just shut the fuck up about it is beyond me. Why does everything have to be a publicity stunt? 2 percent of "the profit" of our latest CD will be donated to the American cancer society. Wow, that sounds great if you are the Stones or Madonna, but if you are a strugging no name band, you might as well drop some pennies in a jar at your local 7-11, because that's how much your profit is going to be.
I get so tired of all the pretensious, holier than thou people in the world telling everyone there is no reason people should be homeless in this country. Well, there should be no reason, but wake up, there is. So let me throw out some scenarios, scattershot as they may be--I'll gain more focus later. They work at fucking WalMart (or insert any other big business whore here, da Mart is my personal whipping boy) for a subpar wage, with no medical benefits (or if they have them the deductible is so high people can't use it, not to mention many can't afford to get it in the first place, because it would mean giving up 25-30 percent of their already poverty level paycheck every week), and no chance for overtime (at least paid overtime, they are asked, no, made to work off the clock if God forbid their hours hit 40 for the week).

Why didn't they go to college, the holier than thou ask. Well maybe they had to work to help their families so they wouldn't become homeless because the average price of a three bedroom apartment in any city larger than 75,000 is at least 685 dollars a month. Maybe they should all bunch up into a one bedroom so they can pay $450 and have a few bucks to eat? Well, sure, but hope the local government doesn't find out because it's against the law to do that. You have to have a certain number of bedrooms per people in your family.
But there are local agencies to help people get housing (and general assistance). Yep, sure are. Here in my town the waiting list for Section 8 is 2 years plus. And then if (read: when) they offer you a run down hellhole in the middle of a drug infested inner city project and you refuse it, you go back to the bottom of the list. And once they have you in their programs, you stay, because you know if you get a 7.00 an hour job, they take it all away from you instantly, which puts you back in the same situation you were in when you started. You see, there are programs to help you when you are at rock bottom (after a period of being there awhile) but nothing to help you climb your way out of the poverty they let you slide into. If you are a single parent with two kids in my town you get 300 or so bucks a month in food stamps. Well you better pray those kids are not growing, because they are going to eat up 300 in two weeks even if you shop real carefully. Unless you stick to a strict ramen noodle diet.

Minimum wages haven't gone up in Ohio since 1987. They are 6.85. Do you think the cost of living has gone up since then? Nah, of course not. Some states have increased a bit but the highest I've seen are around 7.50. Let me ask anyone---could you support a family of 4 of four on 7.50 an hour? Thats about 1100 bucks a month after taxes. If your rent is, say, 600 a month (a figure pulled from a complex that rents only to people of low income that can make no more than that an hour) you now have around 500 a month. Does a bus come by there? Does one go to where you work? I ask because unless you are lucky enough to be able to afford a car you probably are gonna need it. And if you are lucky enough, by law you better have insurance (another 50-100 bucks out of your budget a month), not to mention the gas that is at an all time high. Probably better figure another 60-80 bucks a month for that. Do you use electric? Another 50-75 a month. Gas heat? During the winter it can be astronomical. Does your family wear clothes? Do they eat? Do they go to school? Do you say fuck it all and get a second job? Probably.

Now comes the sociological problems that come with that second job (or the other parent gets a job, if you are lucky enough to be a two parent family, because, usally one of them has said fuck this bullshit by now). The kids, already affected by the lack of anything worthwhile in their lives, usually go one of two paths. The first is they work hard to make sure their life doesn't turn out like their fucked up parent(s). Good for them, but they also usually turn out to be very cold, hard-hearted people who have little or no use for anyone in the environment they pulled themselves up out of. Fuck them, they say, I got out, why can't they, without realizing that less than 1 percent do.

But those who drag ass down the second path, the most likely path, is the group to be really concerned about. These are the ones who end up alcoholics, drug addicts, prison inmates, wife & child beaters, career criminals and generally non-productive citizens. And the next generation of citizens in the exact same situation we just described above.

This is the first chapter of this blog. The above topic is just the tip of the iceberg. There is no much injustice and corruption in the world that all leads back to these situations.

Welcome to what is spinning around in my head. Up next, my life in a nutshell. Basically the tale of woe that began to open my eyes to the real world around me.