Quick as a flash I called my Mama to explain it to me- Why are the protesters protesting?
They’re protesting because they live in debt and poverty and are taxed more than the wealthy even though a simple tax increase on the wealthy could help to fund more programs which could help the lower class to live better. The wealthy have the power to help stabilize the country but won’t do it creating an even bigger chasm between the upper class and the lower class completely eradicating the middle class in an attempt to retain power over future decisions.
I mean, she didn’t say it EXACTLY like that, but that’s how I saw it after our conversation.
So now I get it. Which is interesting because I have read so much and had so many conversations about the protests that I was frustrated because I was STILL not sure what was going on. Now I’ll do a quick article to explain what their point of view is and I have to decide whether or not I agree that protesting is the best course of action.
See, I’m not a fan of criticizing for the sake of criticizing, unless I have a specific plan of action to suggest, I will remain silent. But believe it, when I do speak, I already know what I want to happen.
My Mama and I continued to discuss the state of the world’s economy and possible predictions that the world will see a world war by 2012. This brought me to tears because I can’t fight, I don’t own a gun and I just want peace and love man. I have no one to care to protect me. If we become a state of war like in the movies and stuff, I’ll be out of luck.
So I sent a text to my baby daddy letting him know about the predictions of war and telling him to leave the country with the boys. I can’t leave. When he put me on child support, he asked for back pay and they won’t allow me to have a passport until I pay all that money back.
It doesn’t matter. If we happen to dive into a chaos system, I’ll just have to wing it alone. I’m not afraid of getting dirty yet, I don’t know. Maybe this year I will learn how to use a gun and survival skills so that when I’m in the war zone, I’ll last more than a few hours.
Or maybe I could help change things before they get worse. I don’t know how but I think that anyone can make a change. It just takes one person and it doesn’t hurt to try.
But what can I do?