Yes, so grave a wrong is now. No, you & you & you and me and mine are not at fault. If I wreck my truck & injure someone in it or in another vehicle, it is not my son’s fault for trusting me to drive him around town. We, the people, are merely overwealmed, not complacent but treading in distraction, not evildoers but the students of such. &, like the old blind Guru once said: There are no bad students, only bad teachers.
As a means to clarity of a sort, I want to share one personal issue that may or may not be a shared experience amongst the lot (as we all have our own troubles to shoulder), but it is, in my humble impression, quite indicative of today’s amassing threat to life & liberty.
Last night, after a perfect twilight beside a beautiful pond with friends, yucking it up with good folk again & thinking how good it felt to be shedding that blistery cocoon that had me down the rabbit hole for 10 days, we went home and read the snail-mail. In the pile, we found, in a neatly typed letterhead from the mortgage company, that our property taxes have gone through the roof, …through the roof, in a way that is going to have a significant effect on our monthly budget. A budget that we are conscientiously aware of (not like accountants which we certainly are not, but as mom & pop and teen sons with a quaint little piece of a very small crumb of American pie), …and it comes like a kick in the temple. And at a time when our cost of living has increased already, life in general, teen driver, bla bla bla....
But let us not get off-topic. We will work the financial aspects of it out, it’s just another thing, but I want you to perhaps open your mind to one little point:
Perhaps American government/corporos are moving game board fetishes across a game board of risk management & global monopoly; perhaps they’ve been doing it for quite some time now, with relative impunity; perhaps they’re taking our hands and placing their votes in them with marketing & FUD; perhaps they are ruthless in taking as much as they can from you, the international community/commodity; AND perhaps they are legislating their own PEOPLE, citizenry, YOU & me, YOURS and mine, your neighbors & my neighbors…into a slow draining state of…piss poor broke…or just over broke! …Like some invisible specter creeping ‘round behind the shadows with a list & a pair of handcuffs! HOW much more of our income MUST be allowed to be fleeced out of our personal working expenses and into empty, cloaked, ambiguous at best, upper level coffers and pockets absolutely unknown?!
What do we do when our income is comparatively good & more than enough for one family, yet we are hampered into reassessing a budget, year in & year out? Then after getting it leveled out and back towards growth, another message by mail shows that another legislative body/bold entity is not asking but TAKING more…or else?
No. WE are not in the deepest shit of it, you & me, but we are in the stink. & I don’t blame you or any of my neighbors. I’d shoulder up beside any of you…..
PerseverancePeaceProsperity
~~XIV~~
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