Oh. My. God.

Janis Joplin once sang someone else’s song very poignantly – “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose…” – and that’s semi-true in my experience. We all make choices about what’s important in our lives, and usually become enslaved to that which we choose. At the low end of the scale there’s never enough, just paying the bills is a constant struggle. At the high end of the scale there is also never enough. The thirst for more and more and more rules lives and ruins them too.

As Wall Street melts down we’re suddenly informed we must Spend, Spend, Spend!!! They can never make up their minds. Either we’re not saving enough or we’re not spending enough, it’s always our fault. I call bullshit. Slave wages have not even kept up with the cost of living, they can’t have it both ways.

I read about a 50-something day care worker yesterday who a coworker noticed sitting in the corner crying. When asked what’s wrong, she finally said she couldn’t feel her face. The coworker was alarmed, saw one side of her face drooping as they were talking, speech slurring. She drove her friend to the hospital, but the woman just cried harder and wouldn’t get out of the car. Said yes, she must be having a stroke, but if she walked in the door she’d lose everything – house, car, meager income (job)… she was terrified. Her friend finally talked her into going, she is still in the hospital and her coworkers are trying very hard to raise the tens of thousands she’ll need to pay for the care. There is no insurance at that end of the scale.

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So Many Crimes, So Little Time

During the week of the second anniversary of Katrina a lot of bad news for Republicans has managed to break through the propaganda barriers and coverup yes-men of the MSM. Blogger Randall T. provides a link-filled recap in Signs of hope amid the disgust.

Randall cites pundit Brent Budowski about Senator Larry Craig’s guilty plea to soliciting gay sex in a public restroom, speaking pointedly to the hypocrisy issue that has loomed so large over the last six and a half years. A link to Greg Palast’s bombshell revelation about what Bush knew and when he knew it came just in time for the anniversary of the drowning of New Orleans.

There are more great story links and even a couple of goodies for conspiracy buffs. Check it out!

Links:

Randall’s Blog

The Hill Pundits Blog

Greg Palast: Hurricane George

Witnesses in Army Trial Killed

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