You Don't Matter to Those in Charge

Yahoo - AP - As Army shrinks, young officers being pushed out. If you do less than 20 years you get NO Pension from the military. 3,000 plus career officers are going to be let go because we don't need them anymore. We could let them serve out there last couple of years and get a pension for the decades of service they gave willingly to this country; but, we don't care about them. Nope, we are going to spend more on drones and less on people, we won't even let them retire from the military. It makes me puke and I am a pacifist.

Yahoo - Thomas Piketty's Rx for income inequality: "You don't need to go all the way to socialism". This academic is so smart he doesn't understand how he has been set up by a shYOU ill for the financial services sector. Read the article and watch the video. In the end they focus on socialism; but, what he is really discussing is taxes. Now personally, I believe in a flat tax with no deductions. You pay as you benefit from this society, that to me is fair.

Yahoo - Illinois mayor sends cops after man who created parody Twitter account. A guy made a fake Twitter account making fun of the mayor and the police raided his home. Then they took him to jail.

If you want to have an impact on a local level and feel that your police and government is out of control, demand that your police force be cut by 10%. It is your taxes being used against you. People are concerned that the police are becoming militarized, cut their funding on a local level. If the local police are not protecting your interests, fire them and the cut the number of them. Take that money and put it into your schools or social services. They are willing to take advantage of the military.

You don't matter. They want you to agree with that. You don't deserve enough to even feed and house yourself, $8 an hour is enough and if you complain, they fire you. You don't have the value of a slave. They killed Christ because he said that people mattered and that those who helped the poor and weak helped him.

Not long ago the new Pope said that the wealthy should help the poor. A wealthy Catholic responded by saying that if the Pope didn't watch his words, the wealthy would stop giving to the church. Sounds like blackmail to me. God doesn't need their money.

YOU MATTER. If you understand Jesus' meaning was true then you understand that everyone matters. He allowed those who did not believe that to condemn themselves.