Gilbert and Mary gaze at one another across the dinning table. A $320.26 check lays between them, same as last week. This is the week to pay the mortgage, homeowners and auto insurance. They can never do that on this amount. Last week they had $60 gas and oil to drive to work. The price of gas is worth more than their 15 year old car.
The first $32 was going to God’s work. Last month church friends went to Honduras to help those people to build homes. They dug wells and showed the people how to grow more food. The month before it was the flood aid groups the church helped. Of course we must keep our outreach going to rescue those from drugs and prostitution. Helping the needy is never a problem for so
many like Gilbert and Mary. He tells his wife how he feels about his work being harder and how it goes to the wrong places before he gets his hands on it.
I pay both Federal and State taxes and I have no voice. I can’t stand in my church and discuss governmental issues that many don’t know about. We are to separate Church and State and I agree with the Church never being in control of the government. The churches across this country do incredible amounts for the poor and the temporarily needy without it going into the deep pockets of the politicians in the area.
I can’t afford to pay both the State and Federal Taxes, FICA some portion of which goes to pay a congress their outrageous salaries and benefits; they never work a full week. We have lost our democracy. If this were a democracy I could have a voice in my church to speak about my government. I could exercise my freedom of speech if this was a democracy. All the problems going on right now; gas prices, grocery prices, run away inflation and nearing a recession of grand proportions, and the lovely Ms. Pelosi galore is asking to reopen the stupid Valarie Plame game again. That has been settled, people lost jobs, confessed their sins etc., it is over.
Don’t say the American worker won’t do the jobs for the low pay. Perhaps those on welfare won’t I don’t know. There are thousands in this area bringing home no more than my $320. and they are working every day. They do not hang on to their guns and church when times are tough. Times are always tough. More and more freedoms are lost daily. Much of the complaining is from emotion not from reality; these conditions are real. Anti war groups yapping like a little dog at the heels of a dancer. We, the working poor are fighting a war daily to feed our children and pay for our tiny houses and old cars. We want decency, fairness and democracy in the USA.
Those people who believe a ploy to keep the bad taste of George Bush and their failed attempts to impeach him is more important than the people who are only wanting to be honest, pay their own way and exercise their faith without persecution have not had to struggle as Americans are having to do now.
They don’t see it, they don’t live it, they don’t know it. Won’t you at least examine and explore what is happening to our wonderful country without political correctness and without hatred?
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