Thank you AllonsY for contributing to this thread! I don't think you should be so hard on Eskielover though, I think his heart was in the right place- I think more than ever he was stating his concern for the seemingly blind and ignorant following of the majority of the American people of our elected leaders- while it seems that there is a lot of corruption that continues to go unnoticed/unprosecuted. Hell, most of the police throughout the country have severe racial profiling- with New York being notoriously known for 'stop and frisk,' with of course the high percentages of people being searched being of non European heritage (by the looks of the color of their skin). As a White woman (of mixed heritage) I am often disgusted by the entitled attitudes that a lot of other people of European descent have in this country, as well as their ignorant yet underlying racism that they don't bother correcting and continue to pass on to the next generation. While none of my ancestors owned slave- I don't have white guilt (anymore), so much as anger towards the injustices and prejudices that still prevail today- Being a white man or woman in this country still affords you many luxuries that one takes for granted(such as the assumed innocent unless proven guilty, unlike the guilty until proven innocent that usually is ascribed to people of color in this 'great' country of ours). I still hold fast to MLK's dream that one day we shall all be seen as equal under the law, no matter the color of our skin, but the content of our character- as well as the fact that we can reverse/amend the laws written into place in the guise of homeland security that are slowly taking away our unalienable rights as human beings. I'm tired of the NSA and the CIA overstepping their boundaries and creating more of a police like state of affairs. We need free health care- hell, I wish The United States was more like European countries such as Denmark, they get free education from elementary through university schooling and master programs!
Far too long has the economy of this nation been held up by the backbone of the working class, with the rich paying less taxes and don't get me started on greedy stockholders and CEO's buying out politicians and pushing GMO's hidden in plain sight with us all being used as their guinea pigs. Not too mention that the president bailed out the bankrupt car companies as well as corrupt and greedy companies like Fanny Mae with the peoples money- we have all these taxes applied and taking out of our earnings, were the one's left with the bill for big government eff ups and they still can't raise the minimum wage to where it should be in accordance with inflation over the last several decades.
It's been calculated that it should be at about $22-23/hr.
Whew! Ok, that's enough for tonight.