The Absurdity of an Email Server

So here we go as all anyone can talk about is an email server and the guilt of the person who used it.  I read all 86 pages of the State Department's IG report on the security of their emails or at least tried to read the best I could on a department that was trying to make itself look good with alot of meaningless words.


https://www.scribd.com/doc/313803323/State-Dept-inspector-general-report-sharply-criticizes-Clinton-s-email-practices


So what have I found since the reading of this report.  I have found how absurd this thing really is and how so much hatred of a person can create such hypocrisy that blinds us to anything else.  This issue was created by the media and only then did the IG think anything of it.  However, we the people ate it up as we had all these visions about Hillary Clinton doing all of this secret stuff and lying to us.  No one even asked whether it is something that is worth even putting ahead of the real issues of this country.


            The Federal Records Act was created in 1950 and the Act has been updated to change with times but that change happens slowly.  In 1997 emails were added to the Act but only saying they should be printed and filed.  It wasn't until 2009 that the Act was updated about private emails but even that did not say it was incorrect to use as long as the record keeping system was in line with government regulations.  This report has even shown that the State Department has many holes in its regulations about document preservation and has never gone after anyone for not following the so called rules.


             So really the only thing that Hillary Clinton was guilty of was not providing the documents on that server when she left office.  Oh my god what a capital crime.  At the same time, no one even bothered to see that when asked for the emails off the server, Hillary Clinton handed over 55,000 pages of emails.  Yea she must have really been guilty of hiding something when she turned over truck loads of paper.


            Hillary must have created that email server to hide secrets when she was in the State Department.  Oh wait, she had been using it for years and so maybe it was something she felt comfortable with.  Interesting that the State Department knew she was using it during that time and yet even though they say they told her she should stop, they did not push because she wasn't doing anything against the rules.  We should string her up for doing something that was not against the rules.


            Hillary must go to jail for this because this was a vicious crime against the government.  Wait, Colin Powell used his personal email and didn't hand over the records, but that is okay we don't have to persecute him for 2 years because he is Colin Powell.  Hillary must be burned at the stake.


            Wait a minute, Edward Snowden and Wikileaks hacked and stole sensitive documents from the government that showed all of these bad things the government was doing.  These people are heroes to the people because they told the truth.  Well, good thing that they didn't use a private email server because they would be crucified.  Oh wait, they probably did use one so we should need to see their emails.


           I am sure Donald Trump will use this against Hillary Clinton but we know Bernie Sanders won't probably because he doesn't know how to use email.  I am sure that both supporters will continue to attack Clinton for the simple issue of using a private email server.  Forget the fact that most of us spend our days looking through personal emails or Facebook at work when it is usually against company policy.  Hillary must be shot.


         Hillary has lied about this from the beginning.  Yes because talking about such an absurd subject for 2 years and even if the truth would have been told, it probably would have been ignored or said to be covering up something.  Hillary must be tortured.


        I have said from the beginning that this subject was stupid because it deferred away from the real issues of this country.  Now that I read what really happened, it has become ridiculous.  It has also shown what this election has shown since the beginning, how hypocritical this country really is.  When we have a focus on bringing someone down that stands in the way of own selfish beliefs, it does not matter what is right, only that we get what we want out of it.


       In the end, this country just got a little worse because of the absurdity of an email server.             


 

The Generation Battle That No One Wins

As a person of Generation X, the lost generation between Baby Boomers and Millenials, I find this battle interesting. The reason why is because it is a matter of not understanding anything about any generations.

The baby boomers do not understand that they created the Millenials with their technological revolution, baby seating, privelaged life.

The Millenials do not understand some of the hardhsips that Baby Boomers had to go through to try to create a better life for their children such as 20% interest rates and the Vietnam War.

All generations try to create a better life for the future generations no matter what anyone wants to complain about, if one does not believe that then you do not know your history.

At the same time, everything in life is a choice, what you choose to do with your life is a choice, yes your parents have a say in it but the voice that is created is your own. If you do not want to go to college because you do not want to end up in debt, then you do not want to go to college that bad.

If you think people are lazy now, then we shouldn't have created video games and IPads while working 60 hour work weeks instead of spending more time teaching people the values you need.

If people of any generation think they are lacking in morals then that is our own issue. If you are more concerned with whether the Bachelor gets the choice of 1 of 12 women versus the homeless person that you stepped over, that is your choice.

In the end, it is about responsibility and if we think anyone is really concerned about making your life better without you doing anything we are delusional. Even the Bern is not interested in helping you, he is only interested in keeping you blaming others because that is how he is able to get things done. By the way, it is interesting that Millenials blame Baby Boomers yet they are trying to get one elected as President.

There are people that live in this country from the age of 2 minutes to 100 years old and yet we always seem to focus on certain groups as being the 'power' in this country. Always putting people in groups is how we stay divided and in that case no one has power, even the ones you think have power, it is only perceived.

We need to stop having conversations at a table on our phones and see what is happening in the world. We need to understand that even though racism still exists, it is better than it was 50 years ago. We have to understand that as we want to be online more, businesses will suffer because of it. We need to understand that as we try to put the country in a fog of marijuana, people aren't going to be very motivated to do things.

This country has always had problems, we have fixed some but the ones that really matter we let ourselves be more concerned with how Prince died.

That is how every generation fails.

A Ironic Country: Did the 99% help to create the 1%?

The 1% are evil.  The 1% is the reason why the problems of this country exist.  The 1% are greedy and only care about making money.  The 1% have made their money on the suffering of the 99%.  The 1% have more wealth than most of the free world.  The 1% are buying every election.

We have heard it so much over the past years that the wealthiest 1% of this world is responsible for most of the problems of the world.  If only they were treated the same as the 99%, then the world would be so much better and more even.  But is that reasonable?

What do we really know about the stories of the so called ‘evil’ 1%?  Why shouldn’t the people that have money be allowed to have a say in how this country is run as much as the person making minimum wage.  Is it easier for us to call them the 1% instead of knowing who they really are?  The most important question is whether the very people demeaning the 1%, the so called ‘99%’, actually helped create the 1%?

First of all, in the world, the 1% group is about 70 million people, yes that is million.  To qualify for the 1% club the average net worth starts at around $600,000, the US that is closer to $400,000.  That means that every major league ballplayer is part of the evil club, even the ones that are just starting out.

When you look at the 1,810 billionaires in the world, they are worth 6.5 trillion dollars combined.  However, when you look at who these billionaires are, are they really the type that are building their fortune suppressing others?

http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

So let’s take a look at a few of these billionaires to show that no matter what they are still human.

Let’s start out with the most evil of the 1%, the richest man in the world, Bill Gates.  This is a man whose intelligence allowed him at the early age of 13 to create computer programs.  Even though he attended Harvard, he chose to work on getting a company started in the 1970’s on the verge of the computer revolution.  He never graduated from Harvard.

Bill Gates is a married man with 3 children.  He has created a foundation with assets of 44 billion dollars that helps programs related to education and fighting poverty among its many charities.  He has helped create a ‘pledge’ among billionaires to give half their wealth to charity, a pledge that he created with Warren Buffet and Mark Zuckerberg.

Mr. Gates wealth came from being smart enough to partner with IBM and not give up the rights to his software but to continue partnerships with other computer companies.  Bill Gate’s wealth came from companies need to use computers are part of their business, computers that contained their program.

Mr. Gates wealth came from our internal need to have a computer with his operating system on it, a computer to play games, put pictures and do our checkbook on.  A need that eventually led to wanting tablets, smartphones and everything else that came from Microsoft.

So is Bill Gate part of the ‘evil’ that we are suddenly protesting?   His company probably doesn’t pay their fair share in taxes and I am sure he doesn’t as well.  He has been accused of bad business practices in the past.

At the same time, he has changed our world for the better as part of the technological revolution, helping companies work better and more efficient.  Computers employ millions of people, people that make good money and this is because of people like Bill Gates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Our next ‘evil’ billionaire is from Spain and created the empire of Zara clothing, Amancio Ortega Gaona.  He started out in a shirt shop, making clothes by hand.  Eventually, he opened a store with his wife and the rest as they say is history.

Zara now has over 6,000 stores and over 92,000 employees.  Mr. Gaona was never a person who flaunted his wealth, no picture had ever been circulated of him before 1999.  He also has created a foundation that helps Spain’s needy.

Clothing empires are built on the need of consumers to have the latest clothing and willing to pay for those clothes.  Satisfying our need to be dressed in a brand helps give people jobs in these stores.  The company probably doesn’t pay its share of taxes and Mr. Gaona probably doesn’t either and the stores have been accused of running sweat shops in South America.  

In the end, is it evil to give people what they want.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amancio_Ortega_Gaona

Jeff Bezos is a person who loved science and actually graduated from Princeton with electrical engineering and computer science.  He was so into mechanical things that he built an alarm when he was a kid to keep his siblings out of his room.

Mr. Bezos was already making money from being a Hedge Fund Manager but when the internet was starting to take off in 1994, he realized that there would be a need to sell things online.  This business is over 20 years old which means it started when the internet was barely a blimp on the radar.  He was also an original investor in Google.  Even though he has not taken the ‘pledge’, Mr. Bezos does help donate time and money to charities and also is very involved in the aerospace industry.

Amazon has made its money on the fact that consumers want to be able to buy things in the comfort of their own home.  Even though it has reduced business from other retail companies, it has created an environment that other companies had to change to in order to compete.  It has branched out into other areas such as streaming video, another area that consumers have flocked to.

Is it evil to make our lives easier to live from the comfort of our home?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos

Mark Zuckerberg is probably called evil for different reasons, the most because he supposedly ‘stole’ the idea of Facebook from others.  However, he paid for that and yet it didn’t stop Facebook from changing social media forever.

Mr. Zuckerberg was already a child prodigy, building computer programs even before he went to college.  By the time he reached Harvard he was already a computer legend and then he built Facebook.

Mr. Zuckerberg has also taken the pledge to give half his wealth to charity and is part of the Bill Gates Foundation.  He has also given 99% of shares to his own foundation built with his wife.  His salary for Facebook is $1.

Mr. Zuckerberg’s wealth was built on our need for instant communication about our lives and the lives of the people we know.  It was built because businesses knew that in order to continue to sell you product they had to be on social media.  Facebook changed the technology world by satisfying our instant gratification.

Is it evil to change the world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

Howard Schultz was a man who grew up in a poor Jewish neighborhood.    He was an athlete that won a scholarship to college being the first person in his family to go to college.

He worked as a salesman until he became GM for a coffee company.   In a trip to Italy while working for Starbucks, he found the way they serve coffee as being something to do in the US.  He raised money to start his own coffee company and eventually bought out the Starbucks name.  Starbucks was being created on every corner and not franchised so that they would always follow the Starbucks philosophy.

Starbucks has been one of the leaders in business giving part time employees health care, giving away food to the needy and good customer service.  When McDonalds gave competition they closed down their stores and said let’s change our structure to make sure they give customers what they need.  They were one of the first companies to do payments from cell phones.

Mr. Schultz is married and has 2 children.  He has a foundation that helps in areas of veteran’s assistance.

Mr. Schultz’s wealth was built on our need to have good coffee even though it was at an expensive price.  His wealth was built on his intelligence for making sure the business is run correctly.

Is it evil to put the customer first?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schultz

The final 1% would be hard for a lot of people to call ‘evil’.  In fact, this person should be the poster child for how to overcome adversity in the country to become one of the wealthiest and most respected people in the world.  That person is Oprah Winfrey.

Ms. Winfrey was born in poverty in Mississippi.  She was born to an unwed teenage mother.  She wore dresses made from potato sacks.  She was spanked if she did not do her chores and her mother was on welfare.  She had siblings die of drug use and AIDS.  She was molested by family members.  She gave birth at 14 but the baby had died.  She was a rebel but eventually graduated and earned a scholarship to a university.   She did crack cocaine and had an affair with a married man.

She began working in a news station in high school and continued in television until her break that eventually led to the Oprah Winfrey show.  She built the show from tabloid format to the format of more issue related.  She has since created films, books and even her own television network.

Ms. Winfrey has held a non-marriage relationship for 30 years and said she did not want to have children because of the life she grew up in.

Ms. Winfrey has been very vocal in politics but has also given over $400 million dollars for educational purposes.  She also created the Angel Network for charitable work.  She has helped with Presidential candidate Obama getting people to see the person he was.

Ms. Winfrey’s wealth has grown from our fascination with tabloid television and soap opera type of shows.  However, most of it was built on the intelligence and compassion of the woman herself in every aspect of what she does.  It was built out of our respect for the person not the race or gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey

Other 1%:

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg whose wealth was built on us watching their movies

Candy Bar empires built on our vice of chocolate.

Beer empires built on our vice of drinking.

Perfume empires built on our need for self-beauty

Supermarket empires built on our need to eat

Casino empires built on our vice of gambling


Stock Market investors built on investing in companies that were built on basis of the above.  If the companies were not popular they would not want to be invested.

The Walton Family built their empire on the basis of consumers need for cheap items despite the fact that they pay cheap labor and have many items built from overseas terrible business practices.

When someone says the 1% we automatically see red because our lives are not what we want them to be and we need someone to blame.  However, when you look at some of the people, one can see that these people should actually be promoted as what can be done with determination and hard work.  They give back to the communities and charities where we can’t because of the positions that we are in.  They didn't all start with a silver spoon in their mouth but so what if they did, aren't we all working to give our children better lives.  Yes they may get some special treatment but when did it become a crime to create an empire or make money.

At the same time, how can we sit and not take responsibility for our part in the creation of the 1%.  Our vices, need for outer beauty and the technological revolution have allowed these people to build the empires.  They provided something that we desired, otherwise they could not be in the position that they are in.  We created the monster and now we are angry that the monster is now beyond our control.  One of the only ways to stop this is to stop our vices and insecurities, are we willing to do this to stop the 1% from getting even more wealthy? 

So maybe instead of sitting behind our computers at home or protesting on the capitol because a movie star wants to hold a $300,000 a plate fundraiser, maybe we should start to find out where that anger comes from hope or jealousy.  In the end, maybe we need to stop our anger at an illusion of a puppet master and start focusing on the 1% and 99% working together to help fix the issues of this country.

 

 

 

Politics 101: Wake Up

We are being barraged every day with election coverage, only slightly being interrupted by the occasional celebrity death or gun shooting.  What really has amazed me over the last 3 elections is how the politicians continue to keep us divided but even more shocking is how we the people continue to be selfish and keep ourselves divided.


Every election the candidates attack each other hiding any real communication about how to solve the problems.  As each election grows with social media, it has created an environment where we have actually surpassed politicians in attacking politicians.  We blame everything from race to rich people for every problem in the country which stops us from creating real solutions.  When are we going to step up and take our responsibility for our country and the problems that are part of it?


First things first, no matter who is elected, politicians are suppose to do what is best for ALL the people.  If a candidate is Pro Life, they do not only serve Pro Lifers, they also are suppose to serve Pro Choice.  It doesn't matter if they are Republican, Democrat or Independent, they are still to do what is best for everyone.  So if this is true, why do we continue to let ourselves be divided into ‘groups’ instead of fighting to work as one country.


Something the people also forget is that the politicians are to do what is best for the country.  Not everything we want or believe is what is best for the country as a whole and we need to live with that.  I think it is very interesting that we vote for someone that promises us all of these things or who has the same beliefs as we do but then criticize them for doing what is best for the country instead of just us.  Having millions of different people in this country means having thousands of beliefs and if anyone thinks that every belief is what is best for the country, they really need to take a reality break


Lastly, why is it that we feel that people cannot change the way they believe.  Just because they said or did something 30 years ago doesn’t mean they can’t change their thinking now.  A lot happens over 30 years and sometimes this can change someone’s beliefs as much as a good argument can.  It scares me more with someone who doesn’t change with the times than someone who does.  Politicians need to understand this and be able to explain why they have changed.


We are currently favoring Bernie Sanders as a candidate to the point of even blaming everyone of trying to stop him from being elected.  He is using the right way of communicating where we are uniting, which is good because it gets us talking about issues.  However, when you continue to blame people, it keeps us divided and stops us from really making good changes.  For example, you can expect to instill free health care for all by not only taxing the rich but the middle class and upper middle class will be effected and that needs to be discussed.  Helping others is always something we should do but if someone is going to make $500 less a month who is not 'rich', should we not be trying to help them as well.


We favor Mr. Sanders because he has given us the illusion that he cares.  When you really listen, he is saying some of the same things our current President has been saying for eight years.  However, no one is out there cheering for the President because we have been blinded by all of the attacks on him.  Maybe he didn't get health care for free but he is the first President to get many uninsured people the health care they needed.  He also got 'don't ask, don't tell' repealed basically telling us that everyone is the same who is in the military.  He said immigrants that come here 'illegally' shouldn’t be removed from their families despite the damage to his reputation.  Even though people highlighted it as a bailout, he saved millions of jobs giving money to the auto industry.  Is the reason why we do not see this is because it currently comes from an educated, strong black Muslim man versus an old, Jewish 'white' grandfather.





http://pleasecutthecrap.com/obama-accomplishments/








Even Hillary Clinton has been fighting for the same things but no one knows because all we care about are emails and war.  She is the one that tried to get health care going 20 years ago and when Congress tried to water it down, she said no because it wouldn't do the job.  She is the one who has been fighting for families and women since the beginning of her career.  She is fighting for minimum wage and wage inequality but she is fighting it understanding the entire impact, not just promising higher wages.  Even recently she understood that the coal companies in WV would not get their jobs back, no matter what anyone said and tried to get us to focus on helping the people of WV.  Yet the people of WV were cheering for Mr. Sanders, who is against coal, because they thought she was trying to 'fire' them.  It shows what we choose to hear versus what we should be hearing.  Yes she makes mistakes but every mistake has two sides to the story before judgment should be passed.  Below we can see how progressive Ms. Clinton is versus Mr. Sanders and even though he is more progressive in most areas it does not mean she should not be considered the same.





How do we end up with Donald Trump as the Republican candidate?  I think it is because we understimate how some people really view the world and their issues.  Think about it, if your job was outsourced to Mexico and you see millions of illegal immigrants coming here and getting better treatment than you, why would you not go for a person who says a wall should be built.  Tell a person who had someone die in 9/11 that Muslims are not an extremist religion and that a war on ISIS is not warranted.  We are so busy being distracted by the things he says that we are not even thinking about the needs and wants of the people he is effecting.


A large conversation during this election cycle is the idea of 'free' tuition to public institutions.  One of the arguments is that most high paying jobs need some kind of degree so we are holding back people from the American Dream.  Although I do agree that this is needed, are we really looking at the solution in the right way?  Do we really have enough high paying jobs out there for all of the people that will now be getting a degree for free?  What happens if someone gets let go because the person who just got a degree is hired as a cheaper alternative, isn't that still an unemployment problem?


Are we really discussing all of the issues related to this topic or are we just happy with 'free' tuition for all?  I do not see anywhere that says what responsibility is on the student if they do not graduate?  Are we going to have any contingencies if graduates do not find a job or one they got a degree in?  We are so focused on the tuition subject that we almost forget that there are alot of people currently indebted with student loans.  They now have to see all of these people getting a 'free' pass while they get forgotten?  Have we ever thought that people who worked hard for their degree and career do not want to have less money to help people get theirs for free?  Maybe the reason it is not discussed is because the people cheering for it might not like the answer.


What about the true cost of the 'free' tuition?  The money will be raised by the taxing of Wall Street transactions but has anyone really thought about how that will effect the stock market?  People may not care but unfortunately, our economy rises and falls with the stock market and anything that causes a decline will effect the economy in other ways.  In the program, states have to take over the tuition program after 6 years, so this means that states will have to come up with the extra money to do this.  Ways to do this are usually cutting programs or raising taxes.


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-would-bernie-sanders-wall-st-tax-look-like-2016-02-14


Let's talk about the 'evil' corporations.  Corporations are part of this country, they are building a business to provide goods and vices to us.  If they did not exist there would be no jobs, there would be no Starbucks for us to get in the morning.  If something is changed in the country that minimizes profits or worse causes a company to go out of business they should have a say in this.  Going out of business or having to lay people off because of low profits is not good for the country.  Maximizing profits may seem evil because of the practices that are done but in the end public corporations are bound legally to maximize profits for their shareholders.  When this doesn't happen, their stock goes down and people do not invest as much.


http://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/09/articles/series/special-comment/ebay-v-newmark-al-franken-was-right-corporations-are-legally-required-to-maximize-profits/


There is a huge cry over the $15 minimum wage.  First of all, anyone who thinks this has no effect on prices or a business really needs to get a better understanding.  If a company wants to stay in business they have to do what the market dictates not necessarily what is best for the business, which means sometimes bending over to customers.  So if you raise the cost of doing business without being able to raise the revenue coming in, how does one not see the business having issues?  If costs begin to get too high, they might have to lay someone off and make the $15 people do more work or worse shut down.


It has been said that raising wages increases morale and makes people more productive.  To me giving people more money to make them more productive is the same as giving an animal treats to do tricks.  No treats, no tricks.  Low wages, low productivity.  If we do not see that as a problem, how are we really looking at the problem.  If we believe that someone who took 10 years to get to a certain pay rate point is going to love seeing a person who just came on get a high amount, then we are kidding ourselves.  Morale and productivity should be about treating people with respect and doing the same for the company that is paying you.  It shouldn’t just be about giving people more money as a detrimate to the business.


The final point on increasing the minimum wage to $15 a hour.  If you are living in the slums of LA and you make $15 an hour you may be making more money, but it doesn't mean you will have a lot of disposal income.  Living in LA still means high rent and the higher up you go the more rent it will be.  So unless everyone is going to move to Rock Hill, SC where expenses are lower, then you still will have issues with your living situation.  Wage increase is not the only thing that needs to be done to help the poor.


Do people ever notice that when we fight for something good, an unseen bad comes with it.  Do we really think that when we fight for the reduction of fossil fuels, it doesn't effect the people who are working in the fossil fuel industry.  Companies will decrease business or maybe even close down.  People will be laid off.  Even people supplying the fossil fuel company are going to decrease in business.  If you read about the state of Alaska right now, the state is starting to go broke because of the oil industry struggles, just think if they had to pay for free tuition.


People say that we have an incarceration problem in this country, many are in for 'non violent' crimes.  First of all, stealing someone's property is still a crime and if you do it over and over again it means you have no regard for the law or people so why should you not be put into jail.  Plus by stealing someone's property and it is not returned, insurance rates go up and people start judging people of different races and living areas by those incidents. 


Next is the drug offenses, we insist that it is better to give people treatment than put them in jail.  We can say what we want that the CIA made people do drugs or that poor people have no choice.  Doing drugs or not doing drugs is a choice and being addicted is what comes from that choice.  If you want to convince me that treatment is better than jail, then tell me how many people are cured from treatment the first time and tell me who is going to pay for these treatments.


http://www.npr.org/2016/03/27/472023148/legalize-all-drugs-the-risks-are-tremendous-without-defining-the-problem?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social


There is a lot being said about breaking up the big banks.  If they are too big to fail, how would decreasing their current activity not effect the country?  They are said to be the reason for the housing crisis in 2008 and they are very responsible but where is our part in this?  We were the ones that were so gullible to take on mortgages that we could not afford, why is the bank to blame for that?  Would we have been better off if they had said no.  How soon we forget that as early as 1980 the interest rate was 20%, can you imagine trying to pay a loan with the interest at 20%.  That means for $100,000 mortgage would be a monthly payment of $1,600, who can afford that?


Campaign finance is another hot issue, we need to get money out of politics.  The one part of this that I have an issue with is that the money is not the problem, it is the integrity of the person accepting the money.  Businesses should be allowed to donate to candidates because again they have just as much at stake as anyone in the country.  So if a company spends millions giving to a candidate and a person in a trailer gives $27, do they deserve anymore or less cooperation from the candidate.  The candidate has to do what is best for the country and for ALL people, not just from those that give them a donation.  If they cannot follow this then they should not be elected.


A large portion of our money goes to military spending, thus hurting our country or so it is said.  We complain about war and actually are blamed for causing wars.  Does anyone even think about a world where America is not helping protect the world?  Think about us withdrawing from South Korea, what do we think would happen?  Do we think North Korea who is deprived of resources and their people are screaming for help, would be nice?  Maybe the solution is removing sanctions from these countries then everyone can do business with them.  We never complain when we help countries such as Haiti with disaster relief but that is money that they will never give us back.  So where is the complaining then?


We are a country of 320 million people and in that country are people that have lived through the Great Depression, World War II, Vietnam, Jim Crow laws, having dogs and hoses turned on them while the country watched, waiting in line for gasoline, AIDS, 9/11.  They grew up when there was no unemployment benefits, there was no welfare, there was no social security or 401K.  Their decisions about candidates are based on things we can’t even fathom yet we ignore what they have to say.  We focus so much on the young people’s voice that we ignore a lot of other voices, even the so called 'evil' ones.


We have alot of issues in this country and fighting for them to be fixed is what we should be doing.  However, fighting for something where you have not taken into consideration all aspects is like going to a 1 hour meeting where the real problem is only discussed in the last ten minutes, it serves no purpose.  Everyone in this country is effected by these decisions, young, old, black, white, etc.  We need everyone’s voice to be heard, even the ones we may not like.  We need the ‘voice' to not be 'trolling' comments behind the security of our computer.  That only highlights the fact that we are not taking responsibility, we are just continuing the division of ourselves.


We have been a divided country from the beginning of our history, it is just in a different way and we continue to let it happen.  At first it was land owning white people while blacks, women and Native Americans didn't count.  Now it is Occupiers, Anonymous, Socialists, Republicans, Democrats and Black Lives Matter saying one side is wrong and our side is right.  We need to stop our selfishness, our hatred and understand that every voice counts when it comes to making this country better.  Until that happens, we are not only stuck with what we have, we are the ones that helped create it and we need to get over it.