Ship of State is sinking

Jimmy McMillan, who is running for Governor of NY, is a candidate for the “Rent is 2 damn high” party. A lot of people have been listening to him on Youtube. It would be a great laugh, if the economic situation wasn’t so dire. Unfortunately, not only is the rent too high in most places, the general cost of living is steadily rising as incomes continue to plummet. There doesn’t seem to be much growth in the economy. At this rate the United States will be a third world county in less than 10 years.

Maybe that is what the power behind the power wants. Education is in the toilet, good jobs are overseas or filled with people from overseas. Outsourcing, removal of tariffs, accountable talk without accountable action, laws that aren’t understandable, and politicians that are either corrupt or indifferent represent only the tip of the economic iceberg that our ship of state has hit.

Like the Titanic survivors, we are going to have to tough and lucky to survive the icy waters of this new economic reality. I hope that it isn’t like the real Titanic where the Wealthy were guaranteed survival and the poor were locked in the bowels of the sinking ship depending on going out the windows and breaking through barred doors.

With every election in the United States, we have a new opportunity to express our will and our consent. As we move toward the mid-term election we need to ask ourselves whether the people running for office at the local, state and federal level of government are taking care of us or themselves.

We are in a world of hurt right now. Be sure to vote carefully after researching the background of the candidates or we might be worse off.

Chicken vs. Skunks

I used to fix chicken for dinner every almost night. It was versatile and cheap. I could do so many things with it. One chicken could be turned into three meals. We had chicken casserole (1/2 of the chicken), chicken salad (the other half of the chicken) and chicken and rice soup (from the skin and bones).

There comes a time when you just don’t want any more of something. By the time my oldest son reached adulthood, he didn’t want any more chicken. He said he had “had enough” and he quit eating it for several years. I wonder what would have happened if Brooks quit eating chicken and started eating skunk meat simply because it was different from what he had been eating.

I can’t image that it would have been healthy for him. Skunks smell so badly that it is difficult to believe the meat would be good.

Well, the voters of South Carolina are so fed up with what is going on in government, they voted for an unknown Democratic Party candidate who is facing felony charges. His name just happened to be first on the ballot and he wasn’t one of the incumbents. So they voted for him.

Please be careful who you vote for. Research the candidates. Don’t get so disgusted with what you have that you vote a skunk into office just to get rid of the unpalatable chicken you have.