Milk and Honey

Homelessness.

There's this woman I know, who, for some unknown reason, decided to open up to me that she was homeless and lived at a Red Cross shelter. She'll confront me at work, rambling about some work she just has to get done on the computer. She's homeless! What work are you doing that's that important?!

On a serious note, I have often wondered if our government really gives a damn about impoverished people because just off the top of my head, I can think of one solution that has promise...Anymore, cheap labor is the way to go! Our government has tried numerous times to pass a bill for a temporary work program that could provide assistance to Hispanic workers who have entered our country illegally, and Congress has declined on supporting the bill each time it is brought up. So why even worry about people that are not even from your country getting work when the employment rate in your own country is so down? Why not simply employ the homeless on a temporary work program, and believe me, there is work everywhere in the United States that needs to be done, and you're helping to bring, possible, living conditions to those who are seeking refuge in shelters, aiding them in getting balanced-out in life, and easing strain on the economy at the same time. There is still so much that needs to be cleaned up in New Orleans and non-profit organizations and a relaxed, FEMA-esque group of pan-handlers isn't getting the job done - hell, why not?!

And you wouldn't have to lay off temporary labor already called into duty, either. Katrina-relief isn't the only clean-up we have available. Knowing conservatives, though, this project has already been labelled a risk, considering all the background checks you'll have to perform, the massive build-up of paperwork, and, of course, these people will seek benefits, and the social security issue of employing people who don't have well-established credit or job-history that doesn't end at the date of 1988, and knowing full-well that newly evicted persons would be better off than the "drunks-or-drugs" living on the streets today...surely an equally devastating complication will arise somewhere within my perfect plan. Yes, this concept would have to be reviewed until each proclamation is planted to memory and every risk is calculated, and yet we can declare our country is "at war with terror" and the risks are swept underneath the rug. I guess there, too, is a solution. The price of shit grows exceedingly high because we are at war, and our country is supposed to consume more, yet the market is slow...so what's that tell you?

Jesus, people, war is not a solution to our economy being so fucked up! How does it make sense to raise the price of milk or bread or other consumer goods...when we're not even at war! This is a conflict, not a war! And then things like the Patriot Act are ok'ed and we are policed even more for the greater good. Here's a solution - we hire on temporary help in the law enforcement and national security sects of government as watch dogs and whistle-blowers, to monitor and keep a watchful eye on the private sector. We wouldn't want peaceful organizations that demean President Bush or speak candidly against our president becoming terrorist cells, would we, you know, because that's where, I think, the resistance will be born...yeah right...

Could our president hate black people any more than he does now; I personally think he must dislike them or not trust them, considering he first fucked them in the 2000 election, then left them to wash away in the gulf. Then, he has the balls to state that everything is honky-dory down in the south...that pisses me off! Yeah, steal money from the budget to reinforce the levees down in that region of our country to fund a military conflict with Iraq...that's pristinely thrifty. What other cuts could we make...let's send more troops, and just leave a few national guardsmen over here, along with our trustworthy and world-famous police and SWAT units...yeah, stated just like our president, the best defense is a over-compensated offense at the expense of...defending our own country...wow!...

So yeah, I like to bitch...I just found out a few weeks ago that Obama is for nuclear power...one question, people, why?! You can't get rid of it...yeah, let's bury it in the desert or ship it to the Appalachian Mountains to be implanted into a mountain for storage...yeah, let's put something lethal into nature, right, because people don't go into nature anymore. Nothing bad will happen to nuclear waste festering in a mountain...I mean, it's not like someone could accidentally excavate and blow out a huge portion of the mountain, in the future, to build a new highway, and accidentally expose hundreds of miles of nature and civilization to deadly nuclear waste...that won't happen; that only occurs in science fiction movies with giant insects conducted in stop-animation...

Why not utilize wind-energy, and that's horse-shit to say, "But wind generators look ugly..." Narcissistic dumbasses!