GET MAD AND GET EVEN!

We just don’t care anymore. So many things going awry in the world around us, and we just don’t care. Remember the 1976 movie, Network? In the popular clip where the lead character utters the now famous phrase “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore” is urging television viewers to get out of their chairs and scream out the window “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” Well America, are you mad? I am. I’m doing something. I’m trying stir your passions into action. I am mad at the theft of half of my 201K retirement portfolio at age 54, this is a major loss. Folks who perpetrated this disaster continue to work in the business and elected leaders who watched this happen are still in office. We don’t care that our futures are being stolen. I am mad that my President hired lobbyists and Washington insiders and that he wanted to hire folks who owe taxes. The “change we can believe in” has been mostly elusive. The one true change is that we have a popular President. That is indisputable for everyone, including those ninnies on the Fox News Channel. We don’t care that its business as usual in the White House and Congress. I am mad that we have lost 8,700 lives in this war on terrorism, that 40,000 people were injured when we combine the initial attack on the World Trade Center and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have spent well over $1 trillion on this war. And still we can’t find the son of bitch who hatched this evil. We don’t care that Americans continue to lose their lives and we can’t catch Osama. I am mad that we talk about our young men and women in uniform. As an Army Reserve Officer for more than 27 years I saw first hand the large number of grandmothers and grandfathers who served. When I was called to active duty for the Operation Iraqi Freedom I commanded old ladies and old men who answered the call, saluted the flag, and bid their children and grandchildren adieu. I always thought politicians and generals who honored America’s young men and women were ignorant of the whole truth. We don’t care that grandmothers who should be passing on their culture to the next generations are instead being sent off to war. We don’t care that young mothers are leaving their infants behind and we defend the children’s right to be orphaned. We just don’t care. I am mad that we love to hate Mexico and Mexicans. We send our money to Mexico in the form of “remittances.” We send more money to Mexico in the form of illegal drug retail sales. We send arms to Mexico so that they can keep the smuggling trade alive and well. We hate that smugglers bring in people and drugs. We hate it so much that we give them billions of dollars and assault style weapons and explosives to keep the trade routes open. Its reminiscent of the arms for hostages scandal, only its arms for drugs and arms for illegals. We just don’t care that we contribute to drug abuse, illegal labor practices, and the proliferation of weapons of less destruction. Fuck it! We’re Americans and we don’t have to care ‘cause God is on our side. America, get mad and get even. Reject your politicians, replace them all. Buy your goods and services from locally owned small businesses. Boycott Exxon; if they fold, your world won’t change. Burn your credit cards. Drive you car one more year. Fix up your house, don’t buy a new one. Save your money in a locally chartered credit union. Don’t go to the movies to perpetuate the multi million dollar careers of mindless actors. Get mad and do something constructive, exercise, stay away from fast food. Do something, anything. Get mad and get even! http://blog.broadcastengineering.com/brad/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/howardbealegj5.jpg