BUT IT IS BROKE!

     We all know the saying:If it ain't broke - don't fix it. All fine and good, but it IS broke. The system is broken and all we are doing is extending the break, enlarging and elongating cracks, and building up the banks of anger and hate.
     Life. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness. So we are told, that these are the rights of all, to pursue and achieve. Yet look around today and see if that is the case. See if we are allowing it to be true or are we actually placing road blocks in the paths of those seeking the nirvana that is supposed to be America. 
     We are told the economy is blooming. Well, maybe the stock market - that is, on the days when it is not plunging due to yet another grave error by Trump. But the average American does not hold stock and if they do, it is in medioca amounts rather than the huge amounts owned by the 1%. Most of the rest of us are struggling, adapting the best we can, trying to hang on to roof, food, clothing and health care while extras have gone into the dream of it category.
     Once America made an effort to help those who needed help without making it a shame, a sin. We set up a social safety net that while it was not perfect, did a pretty good job. Yes, there were cheaters, just as there are in most programs, but the cheaters were of all types, pigmentations, ethnicities, religions- whatever category you could name. So the answer to that cheating should be to fix the system, but instead, today, under Republican domination, the answer is to cut, cut, cut. Cut the food aid. Cut the medical care. Allow drug prices to skyrocket, become out of reach for so many. Fire the cafeteria worker who allows a hungry kid to fill a tray with food and get paid for it the next day. Such a sin! To feed the hungry! Seems to me I heard somewhere that to do that is a highly regarded act in all religions so where are the hypocrites of religion in this area? Well, they are cheering on the growing hunger in growing numbers of people, men, women, children, the old, the young, the able and the disabled. Good job!
     The system is broke. Today government under Trump and Republicans and his inhumane minions is run by principles of revenge and punishment. Disagree with Trump and lose your federal funding for oh, say a high speed train, or aid to help rebuild after a devastating natural disaster, or oh, yeah, the latest one. Interesting one at that, since Florida has many people who voted for Trump, but evidently Palm Beach County and Broward County are to be punished for being too liberal maybe, and are now being told that over 1,000 migrant families are going to be flown here and dumped, yes, DUMPED, with no aid - no funds for food, clothing, shelter, education. Nothing. Every month. That will show us!!
     Our border control inside airports is way out of control, lacking manpower, for where are the people? Chasing down children and mothers with babes in arms, or dads with children on their shoulders. They are busy ripping parents from children as the kids are dropped off at school. They are taken away at courts, in hospitals, stopped on higways and asked for papers! Just look a tad different from the preferred image, just talk a little bit of a foreign language and oops! There ya' go! Wave bye-bye.
     Create a new monstrous immigration policy which settles nothing except for turning its back to our heart and soul. Only people who can pass an English test, a civics test, who have a 'skill', will be allowed in. Forget bringing over the rest of your family. Nope!! No go! And now think of your own family and perhaps even yourself. Did they or you speak English when they came over or did they learn it? Did they all have a 'skill' or did they learn one or did they set up a business, large and small, and contribute to the economy of the country? Could they pass a civics test and for that matter, could most of the current citizenry pass such a test? Nope.
     Get a job, work and pay your bills, have a roof over your head, grow a family. Once it was accepted as a norm, but how many today cannot find a job, or even if they do, cannot afford to pay the skyhigh rents, let alone purchase a house! So the homeless population grows apace and we, we just step over the bodies just lying there on the sidewalks, or sleeping on benches, huddled on heating and vent grates, picking through garbage for discarded food.
     And meanwhile we are all too busy to pay attention to the growing disaster of garbage inundating the world. Of the growth of carbon in the air and the consequences. Of the related growing refugee problem and the growth industry of hate and violence. Allow mentally damged people to control government, cheat and lie and get rewards for that by getting elected or appointed to office. Change the laws so there are people above the law. Destroy what is us!!
     Such is the broken system we now have. Such is what happens when we work with tunnel vision, narrowing the view of those we would accept into our way of life. So instead of treasuring our advances, our refusal to discriminate for orientation, for color, for religion, for gender, for different! we have turned the other way, gone backwards, taken away rights, taken away the very things our Declaration, our Constitution, our heritage state belong to us.
     The system is broke! If it ain't broke don't fix it does not apply here, for the system is broke indeed. We need to fix it and soon. Immediately! Or at least take convincing and growing steps to do so. And the first step is to look deep within our hearts and souls. You claim to be religious? Well, then be so. Remember the principles and admonitions of religion to be good people, not selfish people. Remember the principles of righteous secularism, of humanism.
     Wanted: Good people with minds, hearts, and souls with good ideas to fix us up, to  kiss the booboos and make it better. Before it is too late. Before the only way we can fix the system is by violence and we all know what violence does and leads to. Fix it up NOW!!