| You may not know what kind of difficulty you are in | | | | sophisticated airplanes, while our senior citizens and |
| due to the political and social circumstances that affect | | | | their caretakers are sweating their tails off trying to |
| your life in this country. | | | | provide proper care. |
| Let me get real personal ... Our infant mortality rate | | | | It's a disgrace! Charity is not going to cover all of our |
| ranks 37th in the world. It used to be 15th in the world. | | | | basic needs. What we need is a total revamping of |
| That's a disgrace for a nation that seems so pumped | | | | our political and social ideology. The Europeans are |
| up by its egotistical nature. | | | | way ahead of us when it comes to taking care of |
| Many of the so-called lesser nations of the world have | | | | their citizens. No wonder they live longer and happier |
| as their populations, people who live longer than you | | | | and are free of many of the anxieties that plague |
| and your American neighbors. That's a disgrace! | | | | Americans. It's time to come out of the haze that our |
| We have no universal healthcare and we pay | | | | political pundits have saturated us with. We need to |
| exorbitant amounts of money for healthcare, while | | | | start revamping our system, modern-izing it and |
| many of our citizens can't get treated properly. | | | | spreading our wealth equitably and beneficially to those |
| Insurance companies are in business to deny you the | | | | who need it the most. |
| funds when you need to get adequate medical | | | | You may think this newsletter is a little unusual coming |
| treatment. That's a disgrace and a ripoff. | | | | from a psychotherapist. But my mental health training |
| The fat cats get richer and you get exploited. | | | | also includes social psychology and group dynamics. |
| Your politicians scream about the evils of socialism. | | | | We are on the verge of seeing the collapse of our |
| Your education system is socialism up and through | | | | system. Our way of life must include an equitable |
| high school.Yet your children will be up to their necks in | | | | sharing of the wealth and resources of this country |
| debt from borrowing money to get a higher education. | | | | and distributing it for the benefit of all of our citizens. |
| That's a ripoff and it's a disgrace. Higher education | | | | This can only be done by learning from other countries |
| should be free and could be free like it is in other | | | | who are way ahead of us. |
| countries. | | | | We don't have to worry about a foreign enemy. The |
| Working mothers are being ripped off by exorbitant | | | | enemy is here at home and it is us and our blindness |
| day care costs, while they bust their chops trying to | | | | to our fellow citizens. Please don't send me any of |
| support themselves and their children. We need a free | | | | your rants telling me if I don't like this country, I should |
| day care system, where the working mother can feel | | | | go to one of those other countries that cares more |
| safe and secure that her children are being taken care | | | | for its citizens. There is nothing new on the face of the |
| of properly and that she's not going to go into the | | | | earth and we owe it to ourselves to improve our |
| crapper because of lack of money. Let's end this | | | | system and become the Golden City on the hill. We |
| disgrace and start to love our neighbor as ourselves | | | | can do it ... |
| as it says in the good old book. | | | | There has been a flood of information coming in from |
| There is a huge discrimination in the workforce | | | | the media about the green movement. Meanwhile, a |
| towards senior citizens. They can't get jobs because | | | | very expensive trash truck is picking up my garbage in |
| employers don't want to have to pay health insurance | | | | the back alley. It makes sense to me that if you want |
| for their high risk older seniors. Let's put the cream of | | | | to conserve energy, we can invent a way to turn our |
| our crop back to work if that's what they want to do | | | | waste materials into recyclable energy right in our own |
| and give them the support and health care that they | | | | homes. |
| need. | | | | In the meantime, I'm going to watch some homeless |
| When Jesus was asked by a rich man how he could | | | | person dive into the trash dumpster in the back of |
| find the kingdom of heaven, Jesus told him to "sell all of | | | | McDonald's. Somewhere along the line, that person lost |
| your goods and give the money to the poor and then | | | | his dignity and he had to resort to trash picking just to |
| follow me". | | | | eat. Why not have a section at a restaurant for |
| If we are to be a true nation of people caring for and | | | | indigent and homeless people to come and sit down |
| loving one another, then those of us who are richer | | | | and eat properly from the excesses that America is |
| and more fortunate have a duty and obligation to help | | | | so fond of producing and throwing away. That's a |
| the less fortunate. Our system needs to learn how to | | | | great start! |
| share the burden for taking care of the least of us. | | | | In my own personal psychotherapy practice, if I don't |
| The nursing home situation in this country is an | | | | keep up with inflation, I can't afford to support my |
| absolute disgrace. Caretaking aging children are over | | | | family. Many potential clients come to me and want |
| burdened with enormous costs for finding proper care | | | | my services but they can't afford it. In some European |
| for their aging parents who need a lot of help. We | | | | countries, the government pays you to provide more |
| need an entire reformulation and reshaping of our | | | | (not less) treatment for those who need it. So if I treat |
| healthcare system for people who are on the final | | | | more people who can't afford American prices, the |
| edge of their journey. There is no need for them to | | | | government would reimburse me and I can help |
| suffer because of lack of money and services. This is | | | | alleviate much of the suffering of our population. Oh ... |
| an absolute disgrace and our country should be | | | | So why can't these people go to a public mental health |
| ashamed of itself for the way it treats its extreme | | | | facility for low-cost treatment. I won't get into that. It |
| elderly people. | | | | makes sense that every American should have |
| Did you know that emergency rooms and hospitals | | | | access and free choice as to who they wish to be |
| can't afford to provide services due to a lack of | | | | their physician. |
| money? Drug companies get richer and many | | | | There is a part of me that says let the fat cats and |
| treatments are denied to people who need those | | | | their institutions fall apart and let's send our tax dollar |
| treatments. The patient needs the money, not the | | | | bailout money where it is really needed ... to our |
| executive who gets bonuses for increasing profits. | | | | healthcare system, day care system, medical facilities, |
| Your political dictators try to convince you that they | | | | infrastructure, and senior citizens. |
| care. But, that's bullshit! You'll notice that their pensions | | | | Let's put love back to work and shove self-interest |
| and health care is fully provided to them through your | | | | and greed into the pit where it belongs. I see a new |
| tax dollars. But you don't get the same benefits and | | | | day and a new age dawning. We have to come out |
| privileges. | | | | of our own dark ages and see a new enlightenment |
| Your police and fire departments are socialistic | | | | coming over the horizon. |
| institutions and because of government | | | | As a people, we need to go beyond the beyond that |
| institutionalization, these needed departments have not | | | | is beyond all beyondness! |
| let us down the hoary path of socialism. So, why are 2 | | | | If you can read between the lines of this article, you |
| million Americans in jail with excessive sentences and | | | | can see that I am trying to deal with the struggles that |
| for behavior that may be sinful but not deserving of | | | | most people on this planet confront on a daily basis. |
| long term incarceration? Do you know that local | | | | Collectively, if we use our common sense, creativity |
| governments harass ordinary citizens with exorbitant | | | | and intuition we can effectively solve these problems |
| fines, where warnings would have been just as | | | | and diminish many of these struggles. Let's take the |
| effective? You wonder why Americans don't fully | | | | burden of struggle out of individual hands and spread |
| trust politcians and law enforcement. | | | | the burden further out collectively. That way, we can |
| If we are to be a true democracy, we need to take | | | | diminish anxiety and reduce suffering and pain. |
| care of our people and not have all of the wealth go | | | | I know many of you may feel powerless ... |
| to the fat cats, while a majority of citizens are | | | | But a change in one person's consciousness can start |
| struggling just to stay one step ahead of total fiscal | | | | a flow that may reach a critical mass, at that point we |
| collapse. Everybody is concerned about the so-called | | | | may come to the realization of the messianic age, |
| myth of the welfare state. Is anybody complaining | | | | where true brother/sisterhood/mother/fatherhood |
| about the warfare state? Do we need another super | | | | sings from the mountaintops of Sinai to the rivers of |
| carrier? We are being practically defeated by | | | | Jordan to the oceans of Hawaii, the plains of Texas |
| homemade bombs and poor people. Why spend | | | | and the skyscrapers of Philadelphia. |
| billions on the latest military tank and the most | | | | |