Dear American Citizen, a rant

Driven by a system; another interchangeable part but eventually to the junkyard. Enough is enough. A complaint.

                                       

Dear American Citizen

Dear American citizen you're born pure and free but once you reach that certain age you enter into the great machine. The Meat Grinder. You start working hard. Real hard. Work your balls off. Pay your taxes like a good man. Now listen here if you're middle class or blue collar; you're in for some deep s**t. Like I said before: you get paid and drink and party and get laid. Maybe have some kids in the future which is fine. You drink and eat what you can afford. Healthy food for you if you can afford; but if not there is always the Mickee Dee's Dollar menu for you. Eat your juicy burger that you can afford. The burger's so cheap God knows what's in it. So you eat and eat some more till you reach that certain age when the metabolism gets slow and your cholesterol starts to build up or God knows whatever other s**t might happen. You go to see the doctor that sticks in your mouth a fat bill; but that's okay he went to med school so he went through hell. Got a thick loan to pay off for college and was a good man and studied his a*s off which don't get me wrong is a great thing. Anyway back to what I was saying: the poor man looks at his bill and screams, "Two hundred dollars!" Then he sighs in relief and says, “That's okay I have work insurance.” Pays his fifty dollars and walks out the door. And Oh my God if he gets rushed to the ER; gets a heart stroke or anything serious. Gets operated on and gets well and stays a couple of days in the hospital to recover and he's thinking, “Dear lord these are good folks. I get taken care of and I get pampered.” Then he goes back home and a couple of days later gets the hospital bill. “Oh Dear Lord that's a lot to pay even if I have insurance! Come on guys give me a break.” All said and that's if you have insurance. Big insurance will suck your money and life out of you and then pretend to be deaf dumb and blind when you ask for help. If no insurance then buddy you're quite screwed; you'll either get another heart attack or end up paying for that bill for the rest of your life or you can always file for bankruptcy. Congratulations man! You have entered our system. The big boys play ball and the middle class and below the poverty folks handout the towels. If you're a decent man and were fortunate enough to get a good education; well good for you you're a lot better than others but you're still quite screwed. You want a car a new house or to go on vacation. Well spring out that credit card or get a loan from the bank and they'll treat you real nice but you'll end up paying interest that breaks the camel's back. That and keep in mind that Christ was a good man. He said in the Book of Luke:

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

Anyway you see even the middle class folks get into the Meat Grinder. Both classes and I'm sorry if there is any other class I did not mention will eventually get old and die but even when you're dead they make money off of you. You got to pay for a spot to get buried in and pay for a coffin that can cost up to thousands! But it’s okay; everybody's gotta make a living. A couple of decades or I'm sorry centuries before dying and getting buried was a free gig so what the hell is this system that we live in called. Well my dear friend it’s a nameless system really because it ain’t capitalism where the big boys play ball while you sit on the bench. Yes we are the proletariat and they are the bourgeois but that's not the problem you see. The problem isn't capitalism for it's a great system. The freedom to trade and do business is awesome but the problem is Greed. Gluttony takes all different kinds and shapes. Not just in food. You have Clinton's lechery; although he's a good man. All of those oil companies hording money and land. BP doesn't mind killing a few birds on the Gulf… Anyway to wrap it up I wish we can go back to the good old days the days of Washington Jefferson and Lincoln. Jackson was an a*****e. He killed a lot of Indians. He doesn't deserve to be on the twenty unless it’s the bill for the most wanted list. I am sorry I drift. ADD! The days where the people were in charge and the government was by the people and for the people and not otherwise; where the senators and congressmen were from and for the people and that lobbyists would have been hanged from trees. Big banks Big alcohol and tobacco and filthy CEO's. Stop lobbying and ditching taxes! Some rich men are good though; don't get me wrong but sometimes you get labeled with the bad guys. This bullshit started ever since the Industrial Revolution. Fleming Charles Goodyear Einstein gifted their work for the people. At this time we need people like Voltaire and Swift and Blake. I love this country with the depth of my heart and only wish it the best. “Freedom torch.”

Author's Note

A fervent rant.

Reviews

[Marie]

You've said quite a lot here, and a lot of it true. But there is a sub class as greedy as the leaders.

[Sami Khalil]

A splendid rant of truth ...Rant on brother...:)

[Shane Mohamed]

A sly smirk on my face now, lol.

[Sami Khalil]

Hahaha . You are welcome...:)

[Sharon L.H. Kelly]

I am not a critic, but this piece is, in my humble opinion, a work of excellence. It is also laced with sarcasm, which I adore! Love it.

[Shane Mohamed]

I think that you're an excellent critic. I also adore sarcasm and irony.