We tend to glamorize our early days as a nation, and even before. But we have always had "The Man" with his boot on our throat and the sting of his whip on our backs. But during that briefest of brief period of less than fifty years, we had a prospering Working/Middle Class. We look upon those Golden Years as the norm, forgetting how most of our national history really was. How many on this list grew up in a Company Town? How many worked in the garment factories at the age of 9 or 10? How many of us crawled into the bucket to be lowered into the mine in the dark of early morning and never come out until the dark of night...six days a week.
How many picked crops from dawn to dusk and slept in a drafty shack on a hard board bunk?
And how many blind folks remember the days when our lot in life was the Poor Farm or the Loony Bin?
And that's only our White brothers and sisters. The lot for our Colored brothers and sisters was far, far worse.
We just can't seem to accept the fact that the Ruling Class views us as a natural resource. During World War II and for a period of years following, the Working/Middle Class prospered. They fattened savings accounts, purchased homes and recreational property and invested their money in stocks and bonds.
As this natural resource grew fat and contented, the Ruling Class grew restless and greedy. Finally they could wait no longer. The harvest began. Now the Working/Middle Class lies in shambles. Just as they did when they clear cut the forests and over fished the rivers and oceans, and force planted the fields, the Ruling Class has done nothing to rebuild. Greed is a destroyer, a taker.
But unlike the Forests and the Oceans and the Fields, we can do something about this rape that has befallen the Working/Middle Class. We can rise up, self start, and take back that which was rightfully ours to begin with.
Curious Carl
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