I am mad

by Willbet

from The Campaign To Change America

Talking with an on line friend from Ca---

he mentioned the stupid, silly HAIR video and paying $400.00 for a haircut---dumb--yes--the humor in it is lost to many---this stupid thing cost John, at least, this one vote---Since I am one of the members of poverty that John is working for, and yes, I firmly believe he is--I can see how the idea of paying 400.00 for a haircut would turn some off.

It is amazing what folk will key in on to dismiss the credibility of a candidate.How I wish that silly video had never happened.

The other issue he mentioned is immigration--living in Ca--he wants action which for some strange reason, he thinks Preacher Huckabee will deliver--(God deliver me from a preacher in politics)it would seem that there is a need to STRONGLY express the Edwards position on immigration "if" this is a sample of California voters. This person isn't a complete idiot which is why it shocked one so badly. Although, I will work hard to sway this person, not sure I can.

I live in poverty: MY son is in Iraq: His life is in peril, while he knows his parents struggle each day to have necessities. Ironic: He isn't paid well enough to support his family and help his parents, yet, if he left the military, worked for those greedy, corporate mercenaries,(Blackwater is but 1) he could help his parents. Why can't people see that John Edwards isn't playing around with his position on issues---or is that the reason? Have we reached a state of wanting to hear nothing---I, for one, want to hear just what the candidate is offering, bad or good----Perhaps Obama's (have nothing against him) smooth delivery of promises to promise change is what people want---for myself, I want someone who will tell me, specifically where he stands----I don't care where he lives, how he lives, how much his haircuts are, how he made his money---I care that his track record shows that he can take on corporate greed and WIN.

(Btw--I didn't just take his word on this, I checked his record) Corporate greed isn't about the small business which incorporates: IT IS ABOUT THE MEGA CONGLOMERATES-- CORPORATIONS, WHO FEED ON THEMSELVES UNTIL THE ENTITIES ARE SO TIERED AS TO MAKE IT PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW WHO OWNS WHOM OR WHAT---MEANWHILE, ENGULFING SMALLER OPERATIONS/CORPORATIONS WHICH POSE ANY THREAT OF USURPING THE STRANGLE HOLD THEY HAVE ON BUSINESS.

We have no idea who owns this country, except, perhaps China, we can't even meet the interest on our debt to China, Japan, and other creditor nation's central banks. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand: If you have to borrow to survive, it only begets a bigger, deeper hole each time the debt can't be paid; without even considering having to borrow more. This country is drowning in debt and we, the ordinary people, have no real idea of who owns us.Of particular concern is the "private entities", investment brokers who don't have to tell who is in the membership roster. For instance, I would like to know how the Bush family has profited from the war? Papa Bush belongs to a "private" cartel. At least, we know who Cheney partially belongs too, although, it's doubtful that Haliburton is the only cashflow from which he will benefit.

There was a comment on another site, the person liked John, but thought "he was too radical". Unreal, how do we change the path of this country without RADICAL CHANGE. Change, which those who are so afraid of John Edwards, are fighting tooth and nail.

In feudal history, those in power were visible, the peons knew who to attack when enough was enough: One suggests, that in this age, we don't know where the power lies....The following is a quote Sen Edwards made; Over the long term this (CHINA) relationship is at least as important and, arguably, the single most important relationship to America's economic security and safety over the long haul. When 44% of our debt is held by China and Japan, with, I think China's holdings in the trillion---yes, it is important. The question, (which by the way, giving credit where due, Hillary Clinton referenced) is: How do we sit across the table with China, of which trade competition is a critical factor and at the same time, China is our BANKER. Even as limited as I am, I get it. How many folk tell their banker what to do, tell the credit card company what to do---tell the lender the terms for lending to buy a home?Common sense: It just ain't done that way. AND WE AIN'T GONNA TELL OUR BANKER>>>>>CHINA, WHAT TO DO EITHER.

Having a shared background with John Edwards, knowing the sharecropper life, the factory jobs, the poor south, I can see and hear truth in what he is expressing.

I know he knows poverty, that is; financial poverty---although, he had ample riches in family and value of family. I am remembering having nothing to eat but a cold baked sweet potato, that same potato tasted so much better surrounded by family, all grasping at any straw to make life better for all. I, and my siblings were taught to stand together, fight together and for each other. We climbed out of that because we were taught a work ethic, bettering your life meant working, whatever labor was available.

Those jobs aren't available anymore. South Carolina has lost thousands upon thousands of jobs and is still losing. The legacy is; knowing how to do without to benefit the whole; something too many in this country don't want to do--fact is: To pay the debt this country has will require extreme sacrifice, one doesn't see the me, myself and I mentality doing what needs to be done. We have spoiled our kids with credit card debt just to keep up with the neighbors, while at the same time not teaching a work ethic---far too many expecting everything for nothing. The family units of which Edwards speaks, his grandparents, parents, children, is a thing of the past----too spread out, self absorbed---the family he refers to; would not have put a member in a nursing home, it was a given that family took care of family--perhaps, it could be said we were too poor and dumb to know anything else; I beg to differ; there isn't a monetary value that is big enough to put on what was lost. It wasn't always good, it wasn't always generous when family took family in: But it sure beats the hell out of living in cars or on the streets as is happening today. Give me back the old grandmother across the street who sat on the porch, watching, just to tell our parents everything we did and the six of us, almost, always gave her plenty of fuel. She filled a purpose I certainly didn't agree with nor see; all I saw, at that time, was the old bat got us into trouble again; sadly, I do see it today, can appreciate that she cared enough to make what we saw as trouble. We learned.

Lack of health and health care; yes, it put one back into poverty.

John Edwards: He is telling my story, singing my song and I will follow the piper till the end.