The freedom to choose?

[LaurenG]

Today I'm a writer. I've always been a writer, just not a very good one. In fact once I'm done with this I'm sure I'll be labeled and kicked around by a lot of you.
Today though I don't care.

There comes a time in all of our lives when we are forced to choose who we are. We aren't allowed the luxury of wishing we are something we aren't or the hope to think it'll all work out in the end. However true that may be, that it will work out...in the end, I'm more concerned about now and the next years accorded to those of us here now..

On the talk shows this morning we are given the treat of listening to a broad spectrum of garbage starting with Condi Rice, the mouth piece for this administration. Or we can listen as Obama tries to tell the world what he feels is important under the gaze of Russert, another main stream media mouthpiece.

Oil is at an all time high, the mortgage industry is in turmoil, the economy is on a precipice and we all hold our breath waiting to see what more is in store for us today or in the weeks to come. Health care for millions is non existent, the elderly who have no way to supplement their incomes try to decide whether they're going to go without food, medicine or heat. The middle class pulls the weight and everyday we get up and go to work and do it again and again and again as our dollars grow smaller and our planet gets warmer.

We have our big spendy season right around the corner. Though many of us are done with the corporate gods creation, many more of us are not. So the decision to buy that lead (or date rape drug) filled toy for the children or nothing at all, stares the rest of us in the face.

And we all sit around waiting for things to change or for the next election while our food supply is garbage http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A162137 our infrastructure is in shreds http://www.planetizen.com/node/26418 and our president throws tantrums because he can't get more (fill in the blank) for himself and or his friends. Or we argue over the gods and goddesses both in politics and in the ethereal world. Who has the truth, who is the most truthful and what about right now?

In the meantime, while we all argue, the corporate masters continue amassing wealth and making decision that have none but their own best interests at heart and then they pad the coffers of the politicians who decide for us how everything should be.

I'm pretty sure this is just more of the same, the same as it's always been only now too many of us know it's happening. Yet here we sit typing away discussing our next corporate sponsored (or bought) president.

We could be doing the right thing and demanding the truth and demanding integrity but we don't, instead we make excuses that no one is perfect and we'll hold our noses and make the same decisions as always.

I guess the old adage is true “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.