getting real

“Get Real” To be realistic, understand what's going on, start acting realistically…

For all of those Americans unemployed, underemployed living off of unemployment checks I wonder if this year you are planning a vacation? For all of those who must prioritize, mortgage, rent, food, health care, utilities paying for some and ignoring the others, I wonder if you believe Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, playing golf at an exclusive club or a weekend in Vegas, a trip to your country home should make it to the top of your “to do” list? I am wondering if you need a break from solving your employment problems.

For all of those Americans wondering about this months adventure of living from pay check to pay check I am curious if you will be sending hundred’s of thousands of dollars to a political candidate or some PAC hoping when he/she wins they might throw some business your way (or cash, or jobs). I am wondering if you will be finding the resources to help them find their own jobs with great government benefits forgetting your needs but feeling all altruistic in helping them succeed.

For all of those Americans trying to find more from less, little from nothing, maybe a minimum wage, even a part time job or two or three part time jobs are you listening to the “talking heads, the “mavens”, the authors, the researchers, the journalists, all who are gainfully employed, most who make six figure paychecks many who have great health and retirement benefits as they say we must perceiver and then the future will be better. Are you absorbing their every empathetic nuance as they say they know how rough and tough it is for you (never them), and how they really, really, really understand?

For all of those Americans who constantly hear that corporations have trillions of dollars in their accounts, those same corporations who are now considered people like you me, who watch as the salaries of their CEO’s CFO’s COO’s rise higher and higher, do you wonder when, they as people like you and me will act like people with a conscience and assist the rest of us in creating jobs? Do you wonder when too much money, too much salary too much power is just TOO much? Do you wonder how much more money they must acquire before they are no longer cautious to help with our economy?

For all those Americans just like me who have had enough of this greed, gluttony, gorging by a small but extremely powerful group of people, when do you say get real? For all those Americans like me who are tired of being lectured by career politicians, theoretical intelligentsia, self serving managers, marketers, of political campaigns, when do you say get real? For of those Americans like me who hear the harangue and hallowed tune that the problem is because you are poor, you are old, you want a decent wage, you want something for nothing when do you say get real? For all of those Americans like me who watch the division of wealth grow more skewed and out of balance, the depth of have not’s grow deeper and more divergent from the haves, the blame of poverty placed on the lack of will or will power from the poor, when do you say get real?

For all of those Americans like me, when do you say stop, pitch in now, not tomorrow, not for the generations to come, not for your children’s children and get real? For all Americans like me when do you say to fix it we must do it now? When will we all finally stop this passivity and help those who have little connection to our reality please GET REAL?