This is an excerpt from my book that I'm writing called Rantings of an Ordinary Madman. Its a philosophy of ideas of mine. If you like it please let me know with a comment so I can see if this book will be interesting to read or not.
Why in this world of ours, we are always out to help someone else. Inside of this country we constantly have tons of problems but as soon as there is some tragedy in some other country we not only run to help governmentally but anybody who has extra money that day will give it to that country while this country could use the money. It becomes a Media sensation that everybody will become a part for good reasons or for bad reasons. Its great to be charitable and I know some people give money for many charities and issues here and abroad, but it seems during certain tragedies it just gets out of hand and becomes somewhat hypocritical. The economy which is sucking right now, and there are millions of people that are hanging by a thread in this country and all this money, millions of dollars, is going to places that no one seemed to care about before. It just seems that we forget the people that actually live around us. There are many types of poor people in this country. There are some that get the rent help, food help, and basic welfare and there are some that make too much money for those services but barely make enough money to live. I understand that we need to put restrictions on these types of services. If we didn’t a lot more people would be on these services and us as a country wouldn’t be able to pay for it. Everyone does pay for it. I don’t make much money and I struggle with it every day and I work really hard to just get by. I know that if I lost everything that the government would eventually assist me if I have no income but I never let myself get to that point. I still pay taxes not as much as a richer then I pays but I still pay. There are no charities for my situation. Am I jealous? Probably a little bit. Do I feel like other people should pay for problems not at all but it’s hard when you see people that don’t work and constantly get help? If the people of this land are paying for them why shouldn’t they pay for me? Is that such a weird question? I am working 90 hours a week. It’s not ridiculously hard work but it does take a toll on you. I make decent money but overall it’s not really enough. I still need my wife to work to live a little bit. Yes, my life is my own doing. I made choices. I am responsible for where I am in life to a point. I understand all of this but it bothers you when you see people having excessive amounts of money just throw it away on some third world country it drives you a little bit crazy. Our own government runs there too to help everyone else. I don’t know why we think we have enough money to help everybody else when still can’t help everyone here. Oh yea, I know, we have to be part of the world but doesn’t seem that this country is the first one all the time. That gets annoying too.
Millions of people are going through similar circumstances that I am going through. We are all frustrated on equal levels and just sit back and try to do their best and do better for their families. Some of these people did everything right from the beginning and still are in the same situation that I am in. That just shows that it’s not always what you do that causes you to struggle. Factors of environment fly all over and hit us on the head and money just goes to others.
When do we stop helping everybody else and look fully here amongst the people? Even big businesses get help from the government and they had tons of money at one time. Talk about making their own mistakes but yet the government gave them billions of dollars. If they took that money and gave a little bit too every family that makes under $100,000.00, it would have been a great shot to the economy. How was that money going to be spent? My first guess would be bills, but that’s me. My second guess would be: “Go Shopping!” The money would have helped America America
I have always done things by myself with some help from friends and family and I am very lucky to have that. If we as a society tried to help each other locally the rest of the world would do the same, they wouldn’t have a choice. I think we make it too easy for everybody else. It’s great to be helpful to the world but we should only be helpful if we can fix the problems of our own. No other country is going to help us if we really need it. So why should we help them. I know there are matters of economy that I don’t know much about and some of what I’m saying may not always be perfect, but I know it would be better for all in the long run. Can we solve all our problems? It is not an easy task at all and my ramblings are a small matter of thought but it’s a thought that needs to be said if not said before.
The sad part is there is a lot of money out in the system that doesn’t get used properly. Our governments are filled with corruption. Money that we pay goes to all the wrong issues just to keep politicians happy. We need a new way of doing things or find better people to manage our monies and this land. I know how much a million dollars can help and yet with billions of dollars we don’t seem to help enough. To many internal battles get in our way always looking out for number one, in this country. Don’t worry world when your country needs help somehow we will be there with bells on and we find ways to help. Great! Let’s help some third world country and forget about the rest of us. I know its selfish to think like this but when you lived the way I have lived, basically a decent life and still struggle, the frustration builds and you don’t really care about some person in some foreign land.
