NO Soul, the America I thought I was growing up in while being brainwashed to trust that if I was honest, worked hard and paid my dues that I would make it okay was a load of hogwash!

Because after I reached maturity I quickly learned that I wasn't going to be allowed to take care of myself, stand on my own two feet. Because it's a man's world.

But rather my place as a woman in the south, where the poorer and uneducated among us are basically just supposed to do what we're told and shut our mouths if we want to survive without feeling the sting of the lash.

The same lash that not too long ago was reserved for the backs of the slaves who got out of control. The slaves who needed to be punished and made an example of if they dared to speak of freedom and independence from their misery.

Not thrive, Soul, we simply survive.

I've never asked anyone for much of anything that I couldn't get for myself via hard work and sacrifice. And I think it sucks that its the wealthy crooks that are bleeding us dry who are the first ones to grab tax payer backing to cover their a$$es when they get caught with their hands in our hard earned cookie jars. Then cunningly point the finger at us, their victims, to make everybody believe their thievery tactics are our faults.

I personally don't see Obama as the only villain in our country's demise. But the big money backers that put him in office to appease the poorer among us after the Bush administration lied and screwed everybody over for years while soaking in and partying through the wealth they finagled out of the rest of us.

And its the same backers who kept him there for a second term because they couldn't afford to let our country's first white/black President go down in disgrace until they figure out how to at least make this f**king they're giving us look good, even when it hurts.

I don't think my eyes are the only ones that need opening.

And now, big money has finally initiated another way they can keep their behind the scenes games in play with even more of our hard earned money, or through our taxes, via alleged health insurance plans that really won't help anyone other than those they are designed to truly profit.

You wait and see... I've been in the trenches of this system for 30 years... and...

Let's not do the "man's world" thing. Studies show women are more educated and in my generation and younger women are out earning their male peers.

You are right, to hell with the facts.

Your limited view is the basis of reality.

I wasn't talking about where you live.

I was talking about America in general. 140+ of Americas 150 biggest cities young motherless women out earn their male peers. It is a fact.

You can choose to ignore if, but it is no less real.

The job I had before this one women out numbered men 2 to 1.

All STEM majors. Computer Science, Physics, etc. Lots of opportunities for women in today's world.

You don't get it. It's not about anyone "bailing us out", it's about our demise as a world power, by a president bent on the destruction of the western evil and its infidel people.

The state this America hating POTUS has put our country in in just 5 years of his lawless rule, even a Repulsicon senate and house (if they were an honest lot) couldn't repair without first allowing it to occur.... but the transformation would be to what.... and at what cost?

He has destroyed the very core of what our country stands for, divided our peoples, corporatized our existence to one of perpetual debt, and reversed the very nature of a govt serving its people to one of govt control.

The American people, groups, parties or ANYONE who argues his rule by policy or edict, is either a racist or a terrorist, and he has done his best to surround himself with Tzars, generals and media to embed his destructive path for America in the brainless, TV watching, liberal voter base.

Look around you! Do you see the America even your young age remembers out there somewhere?

Let's not do the "man's world" thing. Studies show women are more educated and in my generation and younger women are out earning their male peers.

Our political system gives us two choices..... welfare or warfare.... with the banks collecting from both ends and the people stuck in the middle.

Govt and corporations thrive while the people are forced to pick up the tab for our own destruction.

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
- Alexis de Tocqueville

Our entire govt is a Punch and Judy show! The offerings of puppets for leadership are selected for us as "choice". Their political minions profit under the guise of "public servants" corrupting America to its core.

Money corrupts, but power corrupts absolutely!