For Our Children’s Sake

Have we forgotten how to stand up for ourselves? I wonder when I watch trillions of dollars being pumped every which way except the taxpayer. I continue to marvel at how Barack Obama has taken the horrible situation he inherited in hand, but even he can do only so much with the institutionalized greed of Washington, D.C. We have essentially become the Corporations of America, and We the People find ourselves—as we did over two-centuries ago—serfs subject to corporate (instead of monarchical) excess and greed. We are losing our jobs, our health insurance, our futures…and yet we passively wait to see which way our corporate masters are going to next twist the knife they stab us with. On March 27, Bill Moyers Journal interviewed journalist Willaim Greider who had just written an Op-Ed in the Sunday Washington Post which suggested that public rage “has great potential for restoring a functioning democracy. Timely intervention by the people could save the country from some truly bad ideas now circulating in Washington and on Wall Street.” There is a strong argument, I believe, for We the People to take to the streets and take our government and country back. Perhaps it is too much to hope for, but I’d like to think that we’ve moved beyond violent revolution to rational change. I picked up a magnet while we were in Flagstaff last week which is right beside my monitor here at work: “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi