Christmas. What Does it Mean for You?

With All of the Starving, Homeless, Sick, and Poor, How Can We Claim to Be the Greatest Country?

Audie Collins
For many Americans Christmas is a wonderful time of year. Children everywhere anxiously await old Saint Nick and his reindeer pulled sled, carrying his bag of toys with gifts that have there name on them. For many other Americans, it's a day to celebrate with drink and cheer, as they exchange gifts both from under the tree and from the heart. For the religious sector, it's a day to be thankful, to pay homage to there higher power, and to worship.

For many more Americans, it's another day at work, but for an ever growing population, Christmas is a time of suffering, hunger, and loneliness, as they try to keep warm, find food, and some place they can sleep. This group of people are considered by most all of the privileged as a scourge, useless and unwanted the upper class try to hide them from the general public, as if they were an embarrassment.

It is true, many of these dispossessed, unfortunate, and drug addicted people, do choose to remain as they are, depending on the sympathy of those who have more, in order to survive, but the truth we all are afraid of is that there are so many more that did not make this choice, they want a better life, however, lay offs, corporate downsizing, investment misfortunes, in a severely stressed economy, poor health, or any number of life's tragic events, has robbed them of there chance to share in the simplest gift of all, a better life.

When we live in a time where our leaders can spend hundreds of billions of dollars in repeatedly failed attempts to stimulate the economy, and hundreds of billions more launching even more billions into space, without any concerns whatsoever for those who put them where they are, it is time for every American to dig deep into there souls and find the courage to make a stand for what is right, get off there comfortable sofa and do something right now. If you don't, then you yourselves may be the next person standing at the soup line at your local Salvation Army.

As the number of unemployed and homeless grows, so does the strength of these desperate individuals, as there is an old saying that holds truth threw out every great storm; "There is strength in numbers!" Every riot in history was preformed by the masses, not one or two individuals. It is evident that if these people ever come together, there force as a whole would exceed that of the armed forces combined. If every one of these people voted, they could get any one in office. So I ask you, each and every one of you, homeless, poor, and the well to do alike, what will you do this Christmas to help your selfs, and each other? Will you just sit by and keep taking it, or will you stand together as one and do what's right for America, for each other, for our country, for everyone alike.

So spread the word, pass this around, and tell everyone you know. It's time to make a difference. Call your congressmen, write your letters, and voice your opinions, and congregate together in your VFW's, churches, and town halls. Pull together and gather everyone young, old, rich, and poor alike. Ban together to form a force to be reckoned with. There is a plan that will work, and it cost billions less than what our current leaders think. I have posted it in this great Associated Content news forum, so read it, think about it, and learn it. It is a plan that will work, it is the best thing for everyone, and it can be done and done right. Do not let the nay sayers convince you otherwise, they are the ones with more to loose than you are, those who would oppose it are the ones who offer no better plan, but would rather make useless noise, rather than try to make things better.

Now, read my Idea and ask your selves, Is there any other plan that offers everyone the same.

Go to: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1959582/my_stimulus_package_for_america_pg2.html?cat=9

Published by Audie Collins

Working from age 13, the past 29 years have led me to now. From Carpentry, to Computers, and awards in Journalism from Junior High to High School, I am not quitting my Day Job to become a writer, but it's ni...  View profile

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