Degrees of Inhumanity

Outrage isn't what it used to be.
Numbed by a barrage of culturally accepted, media hyped violent images, games, movies and real life violence, America has accepted higher degrees of inhumanity as the "new normal".
As we dumb down our education system and blame it on the teachers, ignore those most in need of our compassion and assistance, accept millions of unemployed fellow citizens -in fact, blame them for their unemployment and refuse to hire them, we plow on toward our goal:
Higher degrees of inhumanity, always with another explanation -another curious sound bite.
Human life in America continues to cheapen.
What other country on this planet is currently fighting three wars?
*yawn* says the dumbed down America. .

When did you forget your money pays for the government?

Interesting that we pay taxes on all levels of government yet we have no rights in the say of they are allocated.
American citizens still haven't gotten the message -Politicians do not represent American citizens anymore.
Politicians represent the top ten percent of America-the wealthy and the corporations.
So vote away, American citizens
You already have voted away your freedoms .

Charlie Sheen-Americans love the self destruct channel

Amusing?  Entertaining?
Or we so disenfranchised from true human emotion that we find it entertaining to watch others meltdowns?
What is it? Cable has created stupidity or stupid people created stupid cable? 29 of 30 cable channels invoke the stupidity/disaster/ignorance theme. Even the History channel invokes the stupidity in television clause.
Americans love it.

Momentary Perspective

Japan's horrible disaster appeared to create about 60 seconds of reflection from our mostly self absorbed, narcissistic country-
After all, what do we REALLY have? Stuff can get washed away in seconds. Entire families can die within minutes, and in some cases, family members will never be located.
As I drive to work in the morning my renewed respect for this earth has me humbly acknowledging the power of  the mountains surrounding Las Vegas.
-Nature has a way of balancing itself- man can only destroy Earth for so long.
We seem to be feeling the effects of natures inability to balance all that we demand from it.
Millions of fish and birds dying, flooding, earthquakes, huge monster storms

If mankind can't get beyond the selfish destruction of its own planet, we will perish.
Earth will have another round of some form of life as it knows it, but we will not.

A Skeleton of a University wants to build a new stadium

The University of Nevada-Las Vegas has suffered huge cuts by the past Governor and is line for more by the new one.
Ironically the headlines tout the very real possibility of building a huge new stadium.
It will be the first University in the nation with an illiterate  student body spending thousands to play football-
Or will it?

Give the American People what they Want

Americans want "less government" at every level.
They want to "pay" less for schools, health, welfare, disability, the elderly, women and children.
They don't mind paying for two wars costing millions of dollars.
They don't mind paying for "pork" as long as it comes to their state. They don't mind providing corporations with welfare and tax cuts.
They seem to believe big business will save us if we leave them alone.
Ironically big business, corporations and factories have already moved to third world countries so they can pay  pennies on the dollar for profit.
Give the American people what they want.
A death sentence for the elderly, the mentally ill, the disabled, a death sentence for those babies born with life threatening illnesses and no insurance.
Give the American people what they "shout for"
Guns, prisons, wars , death and starvation for those who can't "cut" it.
We can proudly call ourselves a third world country, much like Somalia and other poor third world nations allowing humans to die for profit.

Cheering for Egypt as the US taps our phones, internet and bank records

Egypt's rallying masses calling for democracy reminds us the wish for freedom, the desire to be treated as individual humans with individual will-continues to drive our collective souls.
The consistent will to withstand violence, threats, fears connects us to that innate yearning -no-necessity for a collective dream of how we should live.
Isn't it ironic to watch the middle east stand tall, collectively fight and protest for freedom as we, the United States remove the right to freedoms, little by little, with not a peep.
Millions are unemployed, teachers and government employees are now being hunted down in states as if they are demons, corporations continue to make millions and millions in profits, Wall Street is making BILLIONS, and those pesky bonuses have returned, and our jobs are outsourced to third world countries where corporations can exploit the populations.
States are seeking ways to cut away the most vulnerable of  our people as funding dries up.
The attitude of the American people?
Let them die.
If they can't make it on their own-tough.

Citizens still have the impression welfare is a fat cat program which allows lazy, self indulgent citizens to sit home eating steak and drive SUV's.

The majority of our citizens. sadly and frighteningly are the Sarah Palin's. Unlearned, ignorant willing  to  follow whatever headline feeds their anger and the mantra, each time the anger overflows is punish, punish, punish.

We are a  nation who kills more people than any other, we love killing, guns are toys, We believe nothing is illegal unless you are caught, forgiveness is as cheap as a stick on tattoo.

The media? I am not sure whether ignorant and stupid people are hired or this trash is scripted. People believe what they want to believe, facts are extraneous.

I wonder what would have happened  if Martin Luther King were to give his speech today? We are a country believing every person of color is a threat yet the whites in this nation are clearly the minority.

When our government becomes the rainbow representing our nation, perhaps the corruption, arrogance, greed and disregard for our citizens will be replaced with those who have an understanding of true democracy and not  the elitist corporacracy we currently live by..