If you are an adult fifty years old or more and have been doing a certain job for more then five years but suddenly your bosses are looking for every excuse available to fire you and if you are that age bracket and a woman doing a job that once mostly only men did then why is that not considered discrimination? oh but it is you say? Ok, yes it is if you are: Latin or Latin American; African or African American; Indian or Indian American; Asian or Asian American; and to some extent even if you are Native American, but not so much as the others. But if you are just a plane Jane white American there is no group to stand behind you; unless you are against God, then you can always count on the ACLU and our government as well.

   Instead of companies, corporations and organizations inventing ways of utilizing the experiences of the older generation they discard them like so much trash; and get away with it. We as people of America have allowed this to happen. So tell me this people of America, what happens when the electricity and or the computer systems in your stores shut down? Can you still make purchases during those inconvenient times? No you can’t and do you know why? Simply put there are two reasons, one is that the computers refuse to accept any monetary exchange. The tellers can’t even open their drawer. Number two even if the tellers could open their drawers they don’t know how to count change without a computer telling them how much money to give back. Pretty sad state of affairs and yet our wonderful government wants to keep it that way for further control over who can and can not be allowed to make purchases in the future.

   The point I’m trying to make here is that there is more then one way to accomplish the same goals. Everyone should learn them all whenever possible. That creates a win win situation for everyone. The older generation that has been doing things the old ways can teach the new generation those ways; so what if you will never use them again, what if you had too but no one new how anymore?

   Here is another idea; I’ve seen a lot of older truck drivers in that same age bracket; both men and women. Now these men and women have mostly been doing this for five years or more; many have been doing it for ten or more but my point is; don’t lookfor excuses to fire them, for many like my sister it’s their only source of income. Instead take these young people and have them do the distance driving and have the older ones drive the shorter distances and shorten some of the hours. For instance my sister’s company has a policy, work fourteen hours with eleven of those driving time and spend ten hours down. For most those are great but the older generation become weary and their eyes begin hurting and in some cases they become sleepy. They try every trick in the book so they don’t become a liability to their companies. Acknowledge this; give them an option; and I don’t mean quit or be fired. Give them the option of working less hours for the same pay, which is as much as forty cents per mile with the really good companies plus benefits, or take on a secondary driver with a slight pay reduction with benefits working their regular hours.

   Factory’s can work people fifty and up at six hours per day six days per week and four hours on the seventh day and you would still get forty hours per week out of your workers and pay no overtime on a regular basis. That also means factory’s would have to have four shifts if the factory stays open twenty four seven. Older people can handle four to six hours of standing if the hours are broken down enough for them to withstand it.

   There are many things an older person can do for companies if the companies would stop being so paranoid about being sued and if the insurance companies would stop penalizing people for becoming old; they forget that someday they too shall become old in body if not in mind and spirit.

   Everything I have said here is all common sense but isn’t likely to happen because the older you become the more discriminated against you become as well. If you are a woman doing a job most men use to do and are in that age bracket it will happen to you too. My sister said it well between tears yesterday; trucking companies don’t care about ther people just their safety records and the dollar the truckers rake in; when you are fired you are given two hours to clean out your truck and leave their property or they keep your stuff and make you leave and they don’t care that you have a way out or not; you are now street trash to them. But boy they sure didn’t act that way when you brought them their money weekly, did they?

   With as many single parents as we have in America today; both male and female it is really difficultwhen your child or children request items or money from a parent to help them out and you just don’t have it because you’re constantly being singled out due to your age making you regret becoming old; and yet most everyone does at some point. Single parent’s know what I’m talking about, providing they aren’t single foster parents, that is; they get more money then normal parents do in any given month. I’m talking about real parents, biological loving parents who fight hard to keep their families together. I don’t care how old your children get they still come to their parents for help. Foster parents throw their foster children on the streets when the children turn eighteen to fend for themselves which is why over ninety percent of them end up in prison within a year after they are so called released; real loving and caring parents help their children through out their lives in any way they can, even if it is only in small ways.

   I had the question posed to me in a most unladylike fashion by a woman twenty years my junior; “Do you think your children owe you anything that they should help take care of you? (I cleaned the question up a lot). And my answer is this: I believe we should help each other, that is what families are suppose to do and what we are here for. Experience life, love each otherand stand by one another. That concept if it could be resurrected would change many ways in which we treat each other. Discrimination would be less to deal with if we each loved one another to look past each persons flaws.

   Discrimination has touched our families in so many ways but at it’s base, the very heart of it all is the discrimination against faith. I am a Christian because I believe in God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Furthermore I am a Christian because I believe in the Living Word of God and I try to live it to the best of my limited ability. For that reason I have been singled out, my youngest children removed from me, my original business destroyed and I have had to rebuild my life; with the aid of my two wonderful oldest children. We were all devastated but the worse part is I am forced to listen to non believers and their beliefs such as they are but id I so much a pray in public I could get sued? If I so much as say God or Jesus Christ I offend someone but people can go around all day long saying the ”F” word, shit, cunt and much more and not be offended? 

   My oldest son; when he was in a public school was forced to sit in class where the boys in class discussed “finger banging” some girl, I took it to the dean and not a darn thing was done, yet some boy followed my son around saying all kinds of nasty stuff, my son puts the boy head first in a trash can to match his trashy mouth and my son goes before a judge for fighting. So I guess the American people have decided it’s ok to talk smut in school instead of learning to read, write, math and so on so long as the children are not bothering the parents, who cares right? I’m sorry, I can’t follow that non-existent parenthood way of life; and I’m sorry President Obama, I do think at least one parent should be at home with their child or children to assist them as they grow up working part time while the child or children are in school. I believe mother’s should teach their daughters and fathers should teach their sons. 

   People say it is discrimination to insist that non Americans who come here to work and live to better their lives to speak American English mainly in public, to come here in a legal fashion as our laws dictated, to obey America’s laws, rules and regulations. Yet We don’t condone out-right murder of non-Americans as other countries think nothing of murdering our people in their countries.  We opened our hearts and our borders to non Americans and now they think we are weak because of it? No, it is not discrimination to expect those that come to America to learn our ways and practice them in public. It is not discrimination to protect our country by protecting our boarders. For those of you who feel our way of life is wrong for your children, go back home but don’t murder or torture your children for becoming American when you live in America, take our businesses, take our money, eat our food, use our medical facilities, use our school systems and buy our lands so you and your family can have a better life. You are the hypocrites for the wrong in that matter not the Americans.

   Discrimination is non respect for other’s ways, whatever those ways may be which the whole world is now guilty of so where will it end?