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If you search the Internet or watch TV you are sure to find someone talking about change. Politicians speak of change for the good. People write about the left and the right or down the isle, supposedly in between the two. Blogs abound are filled with writings about how we need to change our government to make things better. How we need to get this party or that party in control. How this person being in congress will change things for the better, improving things like crime control and prevention; how this or that person is best fit for Mayor of your city, or Governor of your State. Well, I hate to break everyone’s bubble here, but this is what I choose to believe. Everyone who listens, worse yet acts on these beliefs about how these politicians are going to make all these awesome changes are in a huge state of denial. Exactly how are we to expect the government, whether it be Local, State or otherwise to change things without making new laws, restricting our already smothering civil liberty and freedom?
The very term politics, when boiled down to its origin, implies one thing, people. This is where the real, so called, meat and potatoes lies. We cannot wait or even rely on the government to change our Community, our own City, our own Lives; we are ultimately responsible for the outcome of our own Lives, our own Families, our own Community, if not our own Nation, PERIOD! The changes that this Country is begging for needs to begin with the people! Then, and only then, will the people will drive the government to support its peoples public outcry. We need to stop living our lives thinking someone else will fill in the blanks. WE are the ones that need to make things better, to make a real change for the good!
During the summer, one can watch many parents drop off their kids at any of three public playgrounds within the City where I live. Adults, mostly City paid College kids, man two of these playgrounds during the summer, the other is left unattended and completely public throughout the year. For the two that are manned, and fenced off I might add, these kids are left to the responsibility of just a handful of teenagers, getting paid just over minimum wage. If anything would happen to these kids, and it has happened in the past, the City is, and has been sued for negligence. Nice! This is what I’m talking about people, taking responsibility for your dumb ass actions! If you see someone dropping their 6-year-old daughter, or their 7-year-old son, stop them. Scream in their face if you have to. It’s parenting 101!!!
I ask you, if not beg you to start asking for change within your community. Start making a difference as best you can. If you know, or better yet see someone mistreating a child, call the police. Don’t wait for someone else to do it; don’t assume someone else will find out, take charge and do it yourself. Personally, I’d walk my ass over there and take care of it myself, but that’s just me.
We, as a people, need to take charge and make things better, for our kids, for our future! WE need to do it, the politicians will follow suit! There truly is no other way.
The very term politics, when boiled down to its origin, implies one thing, people. This is where the real, so called, meat and potatoes lies. We cannot wait or even rely on the government to change our Community, our own City, our own Lives; we are ultimately responsible for the outcome of our own Lives, our own Families, our own Community, if not our own Nation, PERIOD! The changes that this Country is begging for needs to begin with the people! Then, and only then, will the people will drive the government to support its peoples public outcry. We need to stop living our lives thinking someone else will fill in the blanks. WE are the ones that need to make things better, to make a real change for the good!
During the summer, one can watch many parents drop off their kids at any of three public playgrounds within the City where I live. Adults, mostly City paid College kids, man two of these playgrounds during the summer, the other is left unattended and completely public throughout the year. For the two that are manned, and fenced off I might add, these kids are left to the responsibility of just a handful of teenagers, getting paid just over minimum wage. If anything would happen to these kids, and it has happened in the past, the City is, and has been sued for negligence. Nice! This is what I’m talking about people, taking responsibility for your dumb ass actions! If you see someone dropping their 6-year-old daughter, or their 7-year-old son, stop them. Scream in their face if you have to. It’s parenting 101!!!
I ask you, if not beg you to start asking for change within your community. Start making a difference as best you can. If you know, or better yet see someone mistreating a child, call the police. Don’t wait for someone else to do it; don’t assume someone else will find out, take charge and do it yourself. Personally, I’d walk my ass over there and take care of it myself, but that’s just me.
We, as a people, need to take charge and make things better, for our kids, for our future! WE need to do it, the politicians will follow suit! There truly is no other way.
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