Tigger Was Breastfed

"Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's Cheating"

""I find the one thing [the protesters] have in common revolves around the human emotions of envy and entitlement," he said. "What you have is more than what I have, and I'm not happy with my situation."

Cain seems like a nice enough guy, but I nearly blew my stack when I heard this. When you take into consideration all the theft and fraud and market manipulation and other evil shit Wall Street bankers have been guilty of in the last ten-fifteen years, you have to have balls like church bells to trot out a propaganda line that says the protesters are just jealous of their hard-earned money.

Think about it: there have always been rich and poor people in America, so if this is about jealousy, why the protests now? The idea that masses of people suddenly discovered a deep-seated animus/envy toward the rich – after keeping it strategically hidden for decades – is crazy.

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And we hate the rich? Come on. Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans love winners.  But that's just the problem. These guys on Wall Street are not winning – they're cheating. And as much as we love the self-made success story, we hate the cheater that much more.

In this country, we cheer for people who hit their own home runs – not shortcut-chasing juicers like Bonds and McGwire, Blankfein and Dimon.

That's why it's so obnoxious when people say the protesters are just sore losers who are jealous of these smart guys in suits who beat them at the game of life. This isn't disappointment at having lost. It's anger because those other guys didn't really win. And people now want the score overturned."

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The Magical America Where Everyone Has One Job

I just left this as a comment on someone's facebook post.

"The poor want to work, and they want to earn enough to live without needing help. There are 6 applicants for EVERY OPEN JOB in America. THERE ARE MORE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE THAN JOB OPENINGS. That is a fact, and accusing the poor of being lazy or leeches is unfair and completely false. Welfare is degrading and does not cover all the bills. And last I checked, no family in America can pay for food and rent on $7.25 an hour, and if a poor parent works two jobs, that's another person's one job who must now go unemployed. This is basic math, and blaming the poor for being whiny or ungrateful ignores the actual facts and is just an excuse to turn a blind eye to real problems."





I then posted this as my status update:

"You know what? I am at the point where I AM angry at you, DO judge you, and DO NOT want to read your links or updates if you are going to start blaming the poor for their state. Bryan has applied to at least 4 jobs, sometimes as many as 10, every week for 4-1/2 months now. There are more unemployed people in America than there are job openings. THAT IS A FACT. Bryan has even applied for warehouse jobs. No one has even called him for an interview. THE POOR WANT TO WORK. The rich don't want to pay living wages so have been hiring by the thousands overseas. People who need two jobs to pay their bills take away jobs from someone who has no job at all. If you really think this isn't true, then FUCK YOU, and unfriend me."

 I know how much easier it is to dismiss all the protestors as trust fund kids with nothing better to do. I know for years it's been popular for people to be bitter about welfare because of the one family or relative they know who cheats the system and doesn't seem to want to do better for themselves. I know the welfare queen who just keeps having babies so she doesn't have to "get a real job" is the poster child for conservative outrage. I know people like to brag about how they pulled themselves up by their boot straps, worked while they went to a state college, joined the military to afford college, never asked anyone for anything, and all the other stories coming out of people who are against the wall street protests, completely oblivious to what they just said - the military is paid for with TAXES, state colleges are affordable because of STATE TAX SUBSIDIES, and anyone who went to a public school was educated entirely with public funds.

Nobody I know likes living off of welfare. NOBODY. Nobody I know wants to rich to not be rich anymore. Nobody I know wants to punish people who succeed in business. The people I know who are on welfare, including us, just want to take care ourselves. We want a safe place to live, food in the fridge, and medical care for our kids when we need it. We want clothes to wear and we want to be able to fix the car when it breaks. We want to turn the heat on in winter when it gets so cold that we can see our own breath indoors. A job that pays $7.25 an hour will not cover these basic. It brings in about $1200 a month with full time work. Please show me a single person who can live well on that, let alone a family. But we'll take it. Get someone to call Bryan back. We'll take it. Get him an interview. Sure, he has a Master's Degree. He's been advised to actually leave that off his resume if he wants employers to call him back. That promise that if we got a good education, we'd get better pay and good jobs? Totally awesome. He has the masters degree. We now have thousands of dollars in student loans to show for it. And Target won't even call him back.

I've been accused of thinking the world owes me something. I've been accused of wanting something for nothing. I've been accused by family members who don't live near me and know very little about me that my views are bitter, or whiny, or lazy, or selfish. It hurts. But I know it isn't true. I know it isn't true about me, and I know it isn't true about most poor people.

What I do know is math. 

As of August 2011, there were 3.1 job openings in America, and approximately 14 million unemployed people. 9.3 million people working part time jobs but need and are looking for full time jobs.

If you can read that and still blame poor people for not having a work ethic, then you are an idiot.

THE JOBS ARE NOT THERE. You see job openings around you. I see them. They get to be picky because there are lots of people to choose from. Why hire Bryan when they can probably hire someone less educated who isn't looking for better work? Why hire Bryan to work in a pet store when they probably have people who have managed pet stores before? Why hire my single mama friend to be a library page at minimum wage when there is probably a pool of desperate workers who already have library experience?


There is no magical fantasy Republican America where there are plenty of jobs for people willing to work. It isn't there. Over the last few years thousands of more jobs have been moved overseas because major corporations will do whatever it takes to pay people $3.00 an hour instead of $7.25. They don't want American workers who want a living wage, and they don't want to pay taxes to American workers who can't earn enough to live without help. It's a maddening circle, and all the while the gap between rich and poor gets wider, CEO pay increases exponentially, and we're called whiners because we have a fridge and don't live in a box. Well, without disability benefits, we would be living in a box.


I'm not looking for a handout. I'm looking for jobs. And in the meantime, we're blessed to have that handout. Without it, we'd be homeless. That's not me thinking the world owes me something. That's me crying my eyes out. And we don't have a fridge. Our landlord does. We get to borrow it while we live here.



If you think the poor are poor because they didn't work hard enough, don't have a work ethic, didn't get the right education, or whatever other fantasy you've made up for yourself, then stop reading my blog, stop being my friend on facebook, and stop being in my life. Because if you think these things about the poor, then you think these things about my family. You think these things about my friends. You think these things about me.

Occupy Wall Street In Under One Minute

Everyone watch this, and then spread it everywhere, start to finish. YES. This is exactly it.

Magic Umbilical Cords, by elfanie

http://www.nurturingheartsbirthservices.com

"Umbilical cords have two arteries and a vein that run the length of it. Those three vessels are surrounded by a special substance called Wharton’s Jelly. This jelly is thick and gelatinous when functinoal – this is to prevent the baby from accidentally causing it to kink and stop functioning (even true knots in the cord rarely cause problems because the Wharton’s Jelly prevents it from being able to tighten down and occlude blood flow to baby!)

When baby is born, this cord continues to function, providing the baby with not only blood and oxygen – but providing baby TIME! Time to transition to air breathing, experiencing the changes that babies go through at birth. As long as that cord is pulsing, it’s working for the baby the exact same way it did before the baby came out.

Once baby’s breathing and the cord is no longer needed, it goes through its own transformation. The Wharton’s Jelly in the cord begins to liquify…tightening down on those vessels…clamping them off naturally. The cord slowly becomes thin, white, limp – dramatic changes from the thick purple pulsing entity it was when the baby was born!

Not clamping or cutting the cord until this transformation has occurred provides the baby with the benefit of extra blood, oxygen, gentleness and time!"

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SURVEY: Why Do You No Longer Believe That The LDS Church is the True Church?

This link is to a survey created by an active LDS friend of mine, John Dehlin. I took the survery and was as honest as possible. If you were once actively LDS and no longer believe that the LDS Church is the only true church on earth, please take just a few minutes to respond to this anonymous survey.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Parasites

"Smugglers of the Labyrinth"

Never, before today, has the true purpose of t-shirts been realized. Behold the greatest article of clothing I have ever laid eyes on.

That's right. That is Jareth as Han Solo and Ludo as Chewbacca. Here is THE LINK. With what do I tag this? I don't have a tag for "greatest thing ever." Until now. Behold, a new tag!

Birthing in Zion: A directory of LDS birth workers

Pass this link along!!!

http://www.ldswave.org/?p=979

"There was a time in LDS history when women were called and set apart as the ward midwife to serve their sisters. As the overarching American culture (the cultural context of the early LDS church) turned away from midwifery and homebirth and toward the hospital, this official calling fell by the wayside and faded out of use.

However, woman-to-woman birth support is experiencing a resurgence as women around the world are realizing that the need has not faded for a birthing woman to feel supported and understood not only physically and mentally, but spiritually as well during pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Many LDS women are discovering that the Spirit is leading them to birth work and pregnant and birthing LDS women have expressed interest in finding birth workers who share their religious beliefs.

With this in mind, we have created Birthing in Zion, a resource list of LDS midwives, doulas, obstetricians, gynecologists, childbirth educators, lactation specialists & consultants, and other birth workers. Our purpose is to provide a centralized venue where those wanting a care provider who understands their spiritual needs can come to find what they need."

Inspiration For Your School Day

William Torrey Harris, the U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889-1906:


“The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places…. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.”

“Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident but the result of substantial education, which, scientifically defined, is the subsumption of the individual.”

“Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they’re not tempted to think about any other role.”