Police are cracking down on the Wall Street Occupiers in different parts of the country. I hope this whole situation does not disintegrate into uncontrollable violence and riots. I can understand where the Occupiers are coming from. I wouldn't call myself poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel myself getting stretched tighter and tighter with taxes and other, daily expenses. I just put $40 worth of gas in my car. Fortunately, for me, my car gets 27 to 30 miles per gallon, and I save money that way. Every time, I see prices in the grocery stores go up and see the packages for the groceries get smaller, I fume. It's almost impossible to get a half gallon of ice cream anymore. Now, you get three pints, a quart and a half. I have health insurance provided by my employer, but I pay more and more out of my own pocket every year. I don't see how people who have no insurance do it. The problem I see with this whole occupy movement is that it lacks focus; it's more of a general feeling of discontent. Of course, there are those who are trying to fuel the fires just to see destruction. What the movement needs is a leader, but personally, I don't know that there are many leaders around today. Certainly not in politics. (In either party.)
Where is our country going? I'm not sure, but I worry. If I remember Shakespeare's Julius Caesar correctly, the conspirators didn't fear the people because they believed that with the head -- Caesar -- cut off, then the body would flounder around helplessly. At times, I see our country that way -- as a headless body with all its parts trying to squirm in opposite directions. I wonder when the pressures from all the differing viewpoints will pull hard enough to tear our body apart completely. In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and two other members of a triumverate established a kingdom that basically oppressed the people.
Just a thought. Feel free to disagree. You won't get me to change my mind, but it is still a free country the last time I checked.
Where is our country going? I'm not sure, but I worry. If I remember Shakespeare's Julius Caesar correctly, the conspirators didn't fear the people because they believed that with the head -- Caesar -- cut off, then the body would flounder around helplessly. At times, I see our country that way -- as a headless body with all its parts trying to squirm in opposite directions. I wonder when the pressures from all the differing viewpoints will pull hard enough to tear our body apart completely. In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony and two other members of a triumverate established a kingdom that basically oppressed the people.
Just a thought. Feel free to disagree. You won't get me to change my mind, but it is still a free country the last time I checked.
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