Change Is Now, NOT!

Each year individually and as a planet , we attempt to change things for the better. However, I have noticed that the changes we want to see happen will never take place . Why? We attempt to use the same methods or variations of them to deal with the same problems that have continue to keep everyone asking the same questions day in and day out. when will things get better?

Is this insanity on a grand scale?

If change is to take place, it can only take place when you change the way you think and act. When you decide to think from a totally different view point , then you may see a different outlook on life. There are people that dream of a better world, but they are in the minority. The majority seems enjoy the world the way it is. They hate major or quick changes. Think about it.

If we as the highest form of life on the planet dreamed of a better world, would it be as it is ?
Would there still be wars, conflicts, murder, slavery, rape, thief, starvation, homelessness, and poverty?
It seems that the individuals that are elected to office don't have a great plan to make things better. The wealthy/elite which make up ruffly 1-2% of the population control over 90% of the wealth are not interested in changing. There is no longer a true "Middle " class, only the working poor( living paycheck to paycheck) and the poor ( no money and not enough food to last util the end of the week). We thik that tere is no class system in this country. WRONG!

Check ou the latest Census Data.

If you read history, that is what has caused every major depression in history. When the wealth is controlled by a elite group of individuals. There is no spreading of wealth nor power among the majority. The wealthy minority is in control. Think about it.

Every time President Obama has propose a change that would benefit the the majority, the wealthy elite start a campaign (Tea Party) to prevent a positive change . The President is only one man but he seems to be alone in the fight because it is all a set up from the start. He was set up to fail. We do not give him the support he needs or deserves. Why?

Because the changes that his administration are proposing goes against the what the wealth want. But that is not true. The wealthy can make money in any type of market or financial climate. Don't believe me? Check out the numbers of on wall street. The number of "American Corporations" that are opening / building buildings over seas. Check out the what the Banks and Insurance companies are doing. Are any of them going out of business? Are any of them investing in American Business that are building factories or business anyplace in your area? I have not read , heard or seen any new businesses starting construction projects. Have you? Think about it.

What does this say about America. government to you? If change is now, I only see and hear the same old B.S. but from a different direction and it still stinks! Think about it.

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Save A Famly

I want to know what can be done to bring families back together? Does it start with the elders that started the divisions to come together, or should it be the children. I remember the movies that showed families coming together on Sundays to share dinner, love and family unity.

Many of the families today have only one parent, or both parents work , including on Sunday. I remember that on Sundays, all stores and businesses would be closed the entire day or at least by 5:00 p.m. So that, everyone could be home for dinner with their family. Is making money for the rich and greedy worth the value of your family's love and unity?

What will it take for the common man and woman to have what the rich, wealthy and prosperous have taken away from us? I can almost assure you that the majority are at home or with family on the weekends, as you and I sacrifice our families for their comfortable lifestyle. Sure we may have to work for a living , but look at what it is costing us. Is being home on Sunday or working a half day going to make things that much worst, if you are able to spend some quality time with your family one day of the week?

Hay you, the business owner, CEO, Chairman of the Board, is it going to make the business go under to close 3 to 5 hours earlier so that your employees can save their families? Is it going to change the community in which your employees live , if they are able to spend Sunday evening with their family? It could, but we will never know, will we?

What is Truth?

How can we know that what is written, spoken, or seen is always the truth? We are taught to believe what is taught in school, at church, on the job, on the news or in the newspaper is the truth.
We are never allowed to learn what is true by witnessing, by our own investigation, nor by learning on our own. I think that the truth obtained by the individual, on their own is more powerful. It allows one to know yourself. Being able to think as an individual is a lost art.
Mankind no longer desires to think for themselves, but to be told what to do, say, see and how to live according to someone else's (false/lie) truth.

What Is Going On?

There are a lot of things going on in the world today that I could talk about, but I only see that we are not doing what we can to stop that increase in violence among the young people of this country. Everyone is concentrating on the economy, but no one is looking at the growing number of crimes among the our children and young adults. They are killing each other with no regards for life

A Big Mistake

This is a little different for me to discuss a personal problem in public. I have a situation that I am attempting to solve, but I have been unable to find a solution that will bring about a satisfactory answer. Every thing that I have said or done to this point has made my family angry, upset, and hostile. It seems that what I know to be right for me, and at one time the correct action for my family, has caused me to second guess myself. It has worried me to the point that I notice that I can't talk to my wife or members of my family without raising my voice.

It has come to the point where meditation doesn't seem to be the answer. I thought /felt that my faith in God/Spirit/ Universe to deal with any situation or being able to overcome ant situation, but when someone you love tells you that they are going to die. What do you do? What can you say? How are you suppose to react/act ? They at first was not going to tell me because they felt it would not make any difference. They will never have what they truly want...a house.That they can call their own . It makes me feel that I have failed them.

We live in a apartment building that I inherited from my parents. I own it along with my two older Sisters. One Lives upstairs and has done everything in her power to make my wife and I feel unwelcome. It has gotten so bad that my wife prefers to stay in our bed room 24/7. We have the property up for sale, but the market is not that great. People are losing their homes right and left. It should not take that long to find a home, it just hard to sell this one.

I just should have stayed where I was and waited. This place needed a lot of work. I did paint and clean up the bedrooms , living room and dinning room, but I have not been able to push my self in the past three years we have been here to remodel the kitchen and bathroom. Why? It is because wife is always telling me that she doesn't want to stay.

Sometimes I wonder, is all this my fault, that we have never lived any place nice sense she has been ill. Why did I stop working full time? I did so at the time my wife's kidneys started to fail and she feared being alone. It has been TUFT! Plus the fact that my only daughter has Sickle Cell Disease and she is in and out of the E.R. and /or hospital every few months. In fact she has been going through a hard time of late, to the point she had to leave school.

Then I have to deal with the fact that one sister hates my wife and my wife cares less for my sister. I do understand the reason for all of this is me. I mean the old me. In the pass, I have lied and cheated people, including my family, in an effort to make things easy on me. At that time I thought it was right, I was wrong. It caused a big problem that only in the last five years have they started talking to me again.

But nothing will make her happy until she has her own home, but she wants me to buy it on a part-time income. Crazy! It has gotten so bad that I have migraines most of the day, thinking about what a mistake it was and hearing every word my wife has said the past three years. She will not talk about nothing else! Everyday it has been about what my sister is doing, going to say, going to do this or that.

My wife is so concerned about my sister that she, spends all day thinking of new ideas of what my sister is doing. That we have to talk in whispers, if someone comes by the front door she stops talking, because they will overhear what we say. CRAZY! I can't raise my voice because I talk to loud. It is all about the same thing! I can not have a conversation with my wife about any subject unless we talk about what will my sister thing or say. It is hard for me to be in the same room unless both of us our sleep, or at least my wife is. It is CRRAAAZZZYYYY!!!!!

So what should I do? I have only one solution........ move into my own house. but until we do, I have to deal with situation daily and all I can say to myself is that " This was A BIG MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!!"

Who Is Fooling Who?

This summer has taken a number of young lives, especially Latin and Black males between the ages of 12 to 25 and the year is just half over. Many people want to point the finger at the police, the government, society as a whole. However, before you or I point our judgmental finger at someone else, remember there are three pointing back at yourself and me.

• We have allowed society to take the place of the Parent, via the schools, TV, music, and movies to the point that some are raising themselves as they run the streets until all hours of the night. It seems that the younger the parent, the more likely their children will be in the street, because they are so young themselves that they don't understand what it is to be a responsible parent. That grandparents are raising two generations of children because parents are in jail, rehab, in the streets or dead! I know that this not the case with all young parents. They need to be praised and honored for the good job they are doing. Although, there are many children between 7 or 8 to 17 in the street most of the times after 11p.m. every night and no parent to be found.

• We have allowed our children to become uncontrollable, disrespectful, unlawful, rude and mean! We are fearful of not what they will do to someone else, but to us. We have allowed ourselves to become fearful of our own children because it is so easy for them to get a gun in the street. That we have lose control of our homes, neighborhoods, communities, cities and country to the point that we turn our heads and cover our eyes and ears.
  

• The teen-age people know this and take advantage of it on every level, especially in school and on the street corner. Something else to think about, many kids that have a gun are not even gang banging. They feel that the police is not there to protect them, but only there to keep things from getting into the better areas of the city. Survival is their main objective, that they have no other way to deal with things but to carry a gun. Then you do have those that have an ego problem and feel that thy must be respected by killing the one that they were dissed by, But they end up killing someones grandparent, Innocent child or getting killed themselves. The mind set of many Black and Latino males is becoming like the Old West, "kill or be killed".

• Then the Supreme Court made the "bone head" decision, which allows everyone over 21 to own a gun. this is not going to effect the streets on any level. Why? BECAUSE ALL THE GUNS THAT ARE ON THE STREETS, IN TEENAGERS HANDS ARE ALL ILLEGAL!! It will make it easier for regular people to get killed with their own gun. The NRA and all the white supremest groups are jumping for joy. But remember there are more minority groups than white people. And even a majority of whites are realizing that we can live together with out hate due to skin color, religion or nationality.

The business world has put so much pressure on the common man and woman to work 40, 50, 60, sometime 70 hours per week, so that the business owners and stockholders will be wealthier. Which is making the gap between the "Haves"and the Have Not" that much greater. This why that our young black man have it so bad. Single parent homes, where the parent has to work long hours or more than one job is contributing are the problem that the Black community has continue to face since the late 60's .

When we as parents can not be at home to raise our own children, they are left to be raised by the TV, and/or the streets. There is a need to change our way of tinkling as it pertains not only to our families and communities but also in the way we have to make a living. God created us to be creative, we have become lazy and dependent on a few power hungry people to make the hard choices for us. That is why things are the way they are. God blessed you with a brain , us it. Be creative as he was with you.

I don't know what the solution is, but didn't God make us the steward's over this world? Didn't God give us a mission that holds us accountable to him ? What are we to do about it ? You know that He is watching to see what solution we come up with? He isn't going anywhere and neither are we. We are stuck on this Planet that he created, but this is our mess that we have to clean up before he give us something better!