We Are American

Life as it were is a strange thing. It is a hard process that leads from birth to death. We try our best to show how much we value this gift yet we almost always wish it gone. Things push us too far in the everyday in this thing most people call the “Rat Race”. How so many of us make it past the urge to commit suicide is beyond me. With the need to have a job, yet no jobs available especially if you have been out of work for a while. The government giving hardly anything to those who would help those who need a home, help with rent or utilities and food.

With so many bills to pay, for those without work or with little assistance, there is just not enough to pay those bills, and what with Bush sending our money to help another country how will we help our own? When does this madness end? How many people will go without just so others may have something? Section 8 can not help those new people who need help because the money got cut to be able to send aide to those who have lost homes, lives and well everything in the tsunami. Where is the money for those who lost homes here in various natural disasters? Certainly there is barely enough to go around for that. Even with food stamps going up now and again to make up for price hikes it is still not enough people have to turn to food banks whose ability to help is growing weak due to the rise in people needing help. Who will help our people when we are all homeless because Bush is trying so hard to help those other countries? We as a country are deep in debt and sinking further, yet on Bush marches giving money our own people sorely need.

Now I have not a lot of room to complain because I was lucky enough to not be effected much by the section 8 cut. It did not stop me from having a home because I was already in a home. Yet my money for utilities will be cut down or out. I may even have to pay rent with no money. I am not concerned with myself however because I have always found a way. It is the families with no homes which concerns me. Mothers and/or fathers with children, single people, married people who must spend their lives in a shelter or in none at all. Giving up privacy and normalcy just to have a roof because the money that is made doesn’t pay the bills or simply there is no job so no money. How can this country take care of them? We are proud to help others, and we deserve to be as one Canadian Reporter states “America has always come to aide others yet no one has come to their aide when they need it.” Please tell me, when can we get help; as we have helped others, have others forgive our debts; as we have forgiven other’s debts? No, we are the example that no one lives by and we only ask for help when the time comes to free others or hunt those who hurt others. We stand proudly not asking for help. We stand by paying back our debts even when it is breaking the back bone of our people.