Difficult to digest are the number of years that have passed since taking my final step out of high school; yet I still hear my mother’s strong voice clearing the path of debris brought on by a fear of tests, unexplained shyness, a lack of interest in science and every other excuse used to keep from pulling my feet from beneath those warm Montana covers.
“It’s 7:30!”
I honestly believe I went to school so I wouldn’t hear my Mom’s out of tune vocal range. Why else would I set the alarm clock today and consistently beat it up before it blares its ear shattering zip, zing and pow into the arrival of a new sun?
I’m not bragging but having perfect attendance from the sixth grade to the eleventh was an accomplishment that continues to control the journey toward the horizon. Because of my mother’s passion to guarantee her children an education…the remnants of her values have poured onto the floor of every personality I’ve become thirty one year’s deeper into the chapters.
She didn’t accept excuses. Nor do I, which is why it’s extremely difficult to support the protesting voices attempting to land a giant dent or ding in big business on Wall Street.
There are two sides of the fence; corporate mistreatment is accepted behavior. Why is anyone shocked? Have you read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee?
Standing on street corners fighting the system is what kids do when deciding that today is the moment when going to school is the last opportunity requiring a need to be achieved.
The people on Wall Street aren’t representing anyone but themselves. Being an exempt employee isn’t a freedom or luxury to have insurance but every reason to use what little the company is willing to hand out because you’re going to get sick; some days worse but look who still shows up in the trenches.
Teddy Roosevelt once said, “People are always neglecting something they can do and trying to do something they can’t do.”
Rollingstone Magazine clearly prints out the five areas that would get the attention of big business and none of it includes standing on corners chanting like a Chicago Cubs fan hoping to win a world series. The magazine is truthful when exposing a need to hit big business where it counts…in the pocket.
This might be the reason why the Saturday after Thanksgiving November 26th has been officially declared by our United States lawmakers as being National Small Business Day. It’s been designed to convince consumers to buy small, buy local and make our economy work.
I sat up proud and began to cheer like a wild monkey at the city zoo located somewhere other than Ohio! Then I realized National Small Business Day is sponsored by this country’s largest big business corporations.
Seriously?
Ok Wall Street protestors…the ball is in your court!
Convince this country not to wait until Saturday the 26th of November to buy small business goods. Hit Corporate America in the gut on Black Friday!
Ken Keys believes, “To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.”
Big business has connected this generation to unheard of amounts of technology carefully crafted to make life easier. We’ve traveled farther in the past one hundred years than any other time in history.
To attain simplicity and share it!
Now we’ve chosen to lie in bed and complain about having to wake up and go to school.
Henri Frederic said, “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was among the things only hoped for.”
I love the idea that thousands of voices are beginning to be heard inside the makings of our government controlled environment. Having the freedom to speak out is a privilege put into play by every man and woman that’s dedicated their life to protecting our United States constitution.
But wouldn’t the true protest be to stop buying big business so they’ll quit financing politicians running for office in November? Your freedom of speech comes with no power inside a business world where you’re told what to say, do and how to react and if someone from the media approaches you the only answer shared is no comment.
Billions will be spent to convince you how to vote. Was your vote heard during the primaries? Yeah that soccer game did seem a little more important. I know, 50% off at the mall won over the popular vote. Is it possible that those making laws closely work with big business owners to divert your attention? Billions are spent to take your mind off the game.
Who’s running against Mayor Fox in Charlotte?
I’m out of bed and this new day has begun! I write to not to right but give you something to think about during days when everything you own is nothing.
arroecollins@clearchannel.com
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