I spent four days driving from Fort Worth, Texas to Reno,
Nevada, just arrived here in Reno last night. I’ve made this trip three times
now – over the past six months. One of the things that really saddens and
disgusts me is the number of businesses that have had to shut down as a result
of the Great Depression of 2010. A sad sight it is to see these small
businesses boarded up, sometimes not even that, often just left for dead. The
folks who owned those businesses had absolutely nothing to do with the current
economic fiasco that has crippled the world since mid 2009. The fact is, none
of us way down here near the bottom of the food chain had nothing to do with
the current economic state of the world. These are folks who worked long and
hard to earn the right to run their businesses, they created jobs for others in
their community, they helped the economy, they helped youngsters put themselves
through college, or saw them through working to save enough money to start
their own businesses, encouraging them the whole way. The American way used to
be, “Provide a product or service and charge a fair price”. Today it’s, “Do
whatever it takes”, “Make that sale”, “You’re not out there to make friends,
you’re out there to sell, sell, sell”, and the most obnoxious one of all,
“Business is business”. What ever happened to community, or, “People are
people”, what happened to helping each other, supporting each other, and doing
whatever it takes to see any person who was willing to put in the time and
effort succeed? Today it’s “Every man for himself”. It saddens me, but sickens
me at the same time, to see such ruthlessness and inhuman behavior be so
rampant. Even sadder is the fact that it’s not going to get better. As long as
huge corporations are allowed to send their lobbyists to Congress to make more
laws to make their devious tactics legal, as long as they are allowed to pay
little or no taxes, as long as they are allowed to exploit their workers and
cheat their customers, and as long as prices continue to far outrun wages,
things will continue to get worse, not better. Things aren’t going to magically
get better – no matter how much the Pop Psychology gurus tell us that we have
control over our puny lives, as long as we are told to look at the good an
ignore the bad, and as long as we are made to believe that we are to blame for
all our misfortune, things will never get better. The only result of such
disturbing nonsense is that we will continue to cultivate more and more angry,
frustrated people, and for Criminy's sake, we don't have enough angry,
frustrated people just yet. You want proof, just look around you. Any person
who leaves his house to go to the store, to the gas station, or wherever else,
will see the anger and frustration that has gripped so many people – all we
have to do is look over in the next car, or the car behind us, in front of us.
This is not the natural order of things, this whole worldwide scenario has been
carefully planned and carried out by the Ultra Powerful – those who pretend not
to exist, while they infinitely screw every man, woman, and child on the
planet. If you think any of what I say is the least bit untrue, just look
around your town, and you will see all the small business that have shut down
over the past four or five years, having been replaced, or put out of business
by some huge franchised chain store, restaurant, coffee shop, or manufacturing
company; and, you'll see the results of the small businessman having to answer
to grossly biased and paid for government regulation agencies.
All you hard working folks who owned businesses that have
been shut down as a result of the horrible injustice that plagues the world as
I write this, I salute you, and I wish for you to recover and rise up once
again.
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