I feel like the fiscal
cliff situation isn’t getting as much attention as it should be, at least not
from my generation. I’m not saying that no one cares I’m just saying that not
enough of us do. I think that we
all still have some form of blind faith in our political leaders; that they’ll
take care of what needs to be done. I will be honest I really didn’t know much
about the fiscal cliff situation until recently. Now that I see the
consequences I feel like I have to say something about it. For those that still
don’t know, don’t worry we all will soon enough if an agreement can’t be met.
Paychecks will be smaller
for starters. For the wealthy this isn’t much of an issue but for the working
class living paycheck to paycheck this could be life changing. Congress has had
such a nonchalant attitude about this and it’s sickening. Obviously they have
had a long time to get this figured out and here we are with less than a week
to go until it’ll be too late.
Why should the politicians
care? At the end of the day they’re still making a six-figure income. So why
should the rest of us losing money be any of their concern? The law of the land
seems to be that if it isn’t your problem then you probably don’t care about
it.
I mean just think about all of
the other problems going on in our country that nobody cares about, that is,
unless it affects them directly. The overall lack of caring in this country is
at times beyond belief. Kurt Cobain said it best when he said, “My generations
apathy. I’m disgusted with it. I’m disgusted with my own apathy too, for being
spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.”
No one is innocent this statement is true for all of us. No one cares about crime until they get robbed.
They don’t care about guns until someone they know gets shot and killed. No one
cares about drugs until their child becomes an addict.
We
will care about the fiscal cliff if an agreement isn’t met. Maybe not all of us
but a lot of us, programs helping the poverty stricken have more of an effect
on society then you think. That program that’s feeding the poor is keeping someone
from breaking into your house so that they can eat. The intervention programs
for youth in the inner cities is keeping that kid from joining a gang and
either killing another kid or getting himself killed. The housing programs, they're
keeping a homeless man from squatting in the vacant house next door.
Everything
trickles down just like the rain. It might only hit the top of the glass but
eventually it’s going to reach the bottom and touch everything along the way.
Life’s not all about you and me. It’s about all of us coming together to make
this country great again. It’s about using your voice to make a change.
Today
it’s the fiscal cliff but tomorrow or the next day or maybe next week it will
be something different. The politicians aren’t going to care until we make them
care. Until they realize that we will not continue to be quiet as our lives are
downgraded because of their indecision. Not being able to come to an agreement
is not an acceptable statement. I don’t want to hear that because if they
really were trying then this would have already been dealt with.
We
live in a country that thrives to be the best and yet we, the citizens,
continue to settle for less. Have we all forgotten the American dream? Or have
we simply given up on it?
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