Wednesday, February 05, 2003

 

The California EDD reports that in December of last year 1,165,000 people were unemployed.
An increase of 10,000 for that month.
That may seem like a small number to the powers that be, but to the folks who try to make it
day to day this number is more than a statistic. And to us, its huge.
Numbers can be misleading, except when the number represents the number of times a child gets
to eat during the course of a single day. Consider the parent who forgoes eating so their
child can have a single meal.
Or consider the healthy adult with dreams of owning a house, or investing to build a bright future,
but can't for lack of a job. His daily routine of awakening to fewer and fewer opportunities that
may challenge him, and instead of working in an engaging, learning and growing experience, sacrificing
his integrity to be able to pull a paycheck enough to get his taxes paid. Even still, living under the gun....
preparing for the day he is unemployed again.








This is a mean old world, and all the proponents for military aggression to route out terrorism
have settled on a different sort of accounting.... their numbers are building on the borders of our
alleged enemies. And I have to find new ways to get hired. I may be serving you yer hamburger
from behind the counter of a McDonald's soon. And where are my freedoms, then? how has taxation represented me?

posted by Hog 11:15 PM