04/10/2010

Haven't been here for days. The shingles really have pushed me around and even though they are drying up now they continue to hurt and now to itch in a strange way that that I cannot relieve but must ask family members to rub and massage. I do believe that this is the first time in my life that I have been so ill and disabled by illness. I have had respiratory and flu illnesses but never something that laid me out and reduced me to helplessness-yuk tired of this.
There was a piece on mothers in prison in Indiana (I think) with a program that allows them to keep their babies with them for the first year. One young mother in prison for stealing car license plates!! Of course most of the mothers are also African-American. What has my blood-pressure up is that the reporter had to point out that "some wonder" why law enforcement would be involved with childcare. And I would ask why are these young women in prison for drug and theft and drugs and why do they not get enough to live on and to go to school? I hate the fact that MSNBC is owned completely by GE and I am sure that the "some"mentioned are the executives of GE making sure that the insurance companies are covered.
I wonder what would happen if there was a report on NBC, ABC,CBS that explained to everyone how much our military movements cost and that we the taxpayers pay for this and the fact is that billionaires are being created because we have private military,private prisons,private everything that used to be provided by civil servants and soldiers.etc.
What could happen if the citizens could be made to see that while their jobs have been disappeared and/or downgraded those creating the business concerns to fill the "gaps"left by this trend are now billionaires and those working for them are working without any of the social protections that some struggled for decades to secure. This is what has been going on since the days of Reagan and why is no one talking about it? OHH!! could it be that now the entire media is owned by these new billionaires? HMMM!!!.
I wonder how we can get through to the Teabaggers. How can we help them see that they are being played by the very forces that are out for their Medicare,Social Security and pensions? No one in the mainstream points out that the entire thing is funded by insurance companies and Dick Armey is their spokesperson. UHM!! much organizing and communication needed and where does it come from?
I write from time to time on these issues but guess what?!! No one reads this stuff-I am one of millions on the internet in English. Why would the people I want to talk to be coming here? I am a spiritual housewife loving retirement, loving the opportunity for slow cooking and urban gardening, trying to make ends meet on the pension and Social Security and the loss of income for my roommate caught up in Schwarzenegger's California and the difficulty in finding other positions.
I remember my mother saying that she was opposed to the MLK holiday because Dr. King "wasn't as moral" as she wanted. My hair stood up (future blood pressure problems)and I said "Mama!! do you really believe that Dr King was less moral than those who planned his murder?" Well I know that my mother got the point because she was like that and I know that her friends "were like that" as well. I think that many of those in the Teabag movement are like my mother and her friends-they know things are wrong AND the only people talking to them are the Teabaggers, Dick Armey, Palin and all these creeps who are promising them a return to a collective life that makes sense.
At any rate I am afraid of what is coming. I know that bad, dark beings are gambling on the outcome-hoping I think for moral and spiritual collpase the easier to rope us in.