It really reminded me of this Howard Zinn book im reading that deals with people who stood up against the big corporations and corrupt unions during the earl 1900's. what these people went through to get decent wages and worker's rights is beyond comprehension. They were beaten, jailed, killed, and dioscriminated against. In Colorado police took out almost an entire town full of laborers. growing up in such a priviliged town makes you ignorant of the corruption and poverty that plagues this country.
i feel so badly, because I know that some part of the money i live off of, or the clothes i buy, the food i eat, well some of it was gained at the expense of some big corporation taking advantage of poor people and the fact that they are desparate for a few bucks. i hate to see the companies jipping the workers just so they can have a bigger profit.
it just really pisses me off that the government doesn't take more action to help the poor person, to give individuals their rights back. I mean, sure there's a few choice exceptions, but its certainly no the norm. it makes me so mad. i wish there were more laws and regulations that helped these people out.
i feel so completely helpless; all these hours of community service and not one hour has really helped someone who truly, desparetly needed it. I didn't go out and help homeless people, or tsunmai victims, or a single mother with two kids or anything; i got my hours helping people in Southlake, who, let's face it, don't need it. i just want to live in a way that helps other people, that really makes a positive difference in the world. i don't want it to be meaningless. i don't care about the money. i don't want to end up some rich person who is head of a business that does nothing to help people who really need it. the love of money has corrupted this entire country; possibly beyond repair. i want to make changes. i want to do things with my life. i sit there in school, sometimes learning nothing, doing nothing, and i can't help but thinking how many betterb things i could be doing for society. i could be feeding the poor, helping educate others about the corruption and struggles, anything but nothing, which is what i feel like im doing everyday in some of these classes. i can't wait for college.
i guess there's not much i can do right now but educate myself on ways i can help achieve these things. anyways, time for bed; got to get up early for an academic competition tomorrow.
posted by kellyisdelightful @ 9:53 PM
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