Unemployment

As I stated in the title of this page, due to the education, as fine or invaluable as it may be, I am indebted to a large entity far more powerful than myself. No, not God (but Him too), the banks, i.e. the corporations of America (or of capitalism). This amount is obviously over six figures, and does many things to effect one's mental well being, their moods, their livelihood, but most obvious and important, one's finances.

This debt is a bit over whelming, but when compared with society and most of those living paycheck to paycheck, which per another blog that I guess I'm a member to, or whatever phrase is popular here, this amounts to 77% of all Americans. I pay my debt to my country(school) as a hard(I try) working bank employee; no, not bank is a personal consumer standpoint, an large asset servicing and holding institution(you can't even imagine the overdrafts we charge, so go to your local National City(:O).)

But, looking around at the world I live in, I should be very grateful to those banks that believed in my brain, to the school that charged me an audacious sum of money for some knowledge, and the cosigners that thought I'd make enough someday to pay off a mid-size house mortgage. Either way, all of my complaining does not amount to those who are suffering due to job loss, job insecurity, and an overall underpaid economy. My position isn't easy and its very unfulfilling emotional and soul-lessly, but it pays me an income that I can come home and be minorly comfortable.

There are so many that can barely find a bad paying job, who've also invested many thousands of dollars into their degrees, and continue to search for work, whatever is available. My significant other is in search of work after paying 20K plus(no blog though) on a tech school; my mother is desperately searching for a position with just 5 measly working years ahead of her until retirement(something she should be very thankful for, that and a pension, if that's still there) due to layoffs of a large hospital downsize. My father spent many years on unemployment and disability after being cut from the workplace; he died an over-tipped, well under-paid front desk attendant with 3 degrees. My girl friend's uncle spent the better part of 2 years on unemployment due to laying off by a large oil company that decided to go in a different direction. My own colleagues see layoffs in every area of our business as Indians are smarter, harder working, and better able to pronounce R's.

It's everywhere; so, should we be thankful of those government safety nets, however meaningless and unfulfilling they are. Yes, but at those points, the hope for a better day, at least a more prosperous one, is gone.

There's jobs. But there's also unemployment.

Motivation and Clearing the Air

I'm not for putting God into my writing because I feel that's one very sacred subject, that I keep close and personal to myself, but one I should share. I just have my doubts in my ability to arrange my thoughts in a manner that would not appear blaspheming. I do not wish to spread any unclear thoughts into this world that would be incorrect as the Bible has laid out.

I also come across this same fear when dealing with a word such as slaves. As I do feel our society has made the working middle (and lower) class slaves here and abroad, I do not want to exaggerate or offend those who have strong views against slavery. We are not slaves in a sense of any inhuman or abused nature, but in nature.

So, to just spread more confusion into my writings, I put those fore warnings, that I am not here to offend or blaspheme, but to inform and discover, personal and societal.

To keep the motivation that I long to always come to this point and express my views and opinions is not an easy task, but is anything in this world? So, to sit here and complain about motivation and the like, is unnecessary and unproductive. I simply feel that desperate situations, i.e. 100K plus, do not agree with a lifestyle of motivation and hope. As all have a breaking point and most just are here to live. I'd rather prosper, but wouldn't we all. But even more so, I'd rather contribute. So here I lay, working my mind to put the nonsense that I believe and have been taught into words, ideas, and possible even a well-conceived blog.

Socialism and Social Activistists

Now, to think that I could sit here and elaborate on such a broad topic as I have chosen for this title is giving myself way too much credit and not understanding that broad topics are infinite in matter. We ALL believe different things and think differently.

To think socialism is all wrong is either ignorant or arrogant. But most in a middle class society and higher have chosen to take such views that were hand fed by propaganda, whether government or corporation or other interest based. There is nothing wrong with everyone in a society not living under a set of standards, and to disagree is inhuman, but in America, widely accepted. We already have many systems set up to assist the poor and diseased in this society, so how far are we from a socialist world in America can we say we have become. At least in socialism there is an all encompassing work force, which, yes, there would be the non-workers, as there are now. But at least there are the positions, jobs, to accommodate the many that are job-less. Workers would feel slighted, as they do now, that about at the very least 30% of a taxed position is to feed those who don't feel like working. Obviously, there is some sarcasm, as there are the lazy, but there are also the less fortunate.

Well, we (I) can bitch all I want, but that will do none the less to add to the trillions of words that are spoken/written/and thought on the subject of personal macroeconomics. We(most of us, as 1% have 95% of the wealth in our world) are born as slaves. And I hate to add that as most in America put the connotation of slavery as in African American slaves, but what is failed to point out because there were many problems in the founding of this country that were very race related, is that white Europeans held the wealth, so they held the power, and the ease to enslave.

But I put slavery in a more broad sense, not a racist or derogatory terming, but we are no more paid workers than we are slaves. We, with the exception of those who cheat and live under the system, but we are slaves that decide to work with the system. Slaves that do have a higher standard of living, a guarantee for food and shelter, and the like. But slaves as there is no choice, we must work and after our education is complete, we must spend a majority of our waking moments at positions that are not pleasing nor fulfilling. Not the American dream that was the fiction we were so happily told. Slaves to a system, slaves to a government.

So, here is where I have turned my head in past writings, for hopes that I may be some famous published (secular) writer, that God has called us to this world, which He knew was broken. So, we as people, Christian and non-believer alike, are called here to be slaves. And luckily in America, you can chose a lower standard of living and not work as you were intended too, which obviously hurts your being, but also harms the whole in which we all reside. But God has called us to be His slaves, and to be the world's slaves.

So, I do not know where my writings head, but I pray and hope, I can write with more heavenly influence, that I may not perpetuate a system that I can neither buy out of or demolish, but unearth some Godly ideas for a broken system.

We are social, so to put negative connotations on a system such as socialism is entirely contradictory and blasphemy on our very nature. But it is also America, because we, downwards and upwards of the economy, are mainly a prideful greedy and self serving community.

So, how is this a community? It is not, it is a broken community, because self-serving and community are entirely contradictory and incorrect in manner. But nevertheless, that is what we are and have become.

So, where does this end? In education, in activism, in charity, in us.