A Plague in the Land

It is devastating to consider.  To reflect on what is happening in the world.  It doesn’t really matter what your world view is, your life view is, your spiritual disposition, what religion you subscribe to, or what your station in life happens to be.  The information has trickled in slowly and inexorably, uncontrolled fires, earthquakes and tsunamis, hurricanes, record heat waves, HIV, SARS, bird flu, Ebola, locust swarms, global warming, melting Arctic and Antarctic ice and the resulting rise in sea levels – there is a plague in the land no matter what land you inhabit.  Its not just the presence of these phenomena, it’s the frequency and intensity of them all that represents a plague in our homes, communities, nations and ultimately the world.
 
I am not a fear monger, bible thumper, or a conspiracy theorist.  I am also not a fool, and idiot, or in denial.  When the entire world economy almost shuts down, forget the world economy – the American economy is in free fall because of a deep wound that is a tiny virus.  You know there’s not much that Americans love more than their money.  Think about that….

​Virtually no one is pursuing a dollar today, right now.  People – wealthy, newly rich, comfortable, struggling financially and the poor – are all huddled together waiting for the plague to pass.  Hoping that it does not stop at their door. Each is powerless to save themselves and cannot pursue the great American pastime, not baseball but making money.

What happens after Rona World?  Will we really be overrun by Zombies.  Its not funny, its not a joke, its not a game – what’s next?  I don’t have the answer, but I know that regular folks have got to wake up and understand that we are not prepared for this or what’s next.  If recent history is any guide, what is coming next will be far worse.  Today most people are in fear of losing their place in the world.  Guess what, it doesn’t matter what that place is, there is real fear and some evidence that you could lose it.

​There are millions of people waiting on or hoping for a check from the federal government.  When you step back and look, someone has an equation that tells them who are the most desperate and vulnerable persons in the country from a financial point of view.  This information has been known for  years.  There is knowledge that the minimum wage is at a shameful low level, there is very little housing for people at the bottom.  You just can’t afford to live even when times are good.  Like two or three months ago.  People are working two or three jobs and still struggling to pay all the bills and not live on the street.  You know who I am talking about, some of them is Us. If its not you then family members.  You know folks have been living in small not so nice motels for years.  Working hard and falling farther down the rabbit hole of hard times.  

I learned long ago: “It’s not what you say it’s what you do.”  Results are what is important.  Is what we are experiencing now the results you expect from our homeland – the wealthiest country in the world.  Where is the outrage, where is the anger?  When will Americans find their voice and take action.  It’s not what you or anybody else, including me, says – it’s what you do.  What are you prepared to do?
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