Get involved! Fight back!  Know the real reason you are unemployed.   Ask questions and demand answers.  Unemployment isn't working.   Not for the present of the future unemployed and that could include you.

High unemployment makes its easier for us to be manipulated.    It makes is easier to erode out human rights.    It jeopardizes the rights of our children to an education.    Its used to lower our earnings and standard of living. 

Unemployment is a weapon  goernment uses and will continue to use to force us to acceop their ideology.   We must act responsibly.

A poster entitiled "medicare is not a privilege" was the inspiration for "Fight Back".

Although this was written years ago, it has turned out to be a prophecy  in view of the recent cuts to  health and education funding.

Fight Back

It's not a privilege

To wake up every day

Ands know your life has purpose

It was meant to be that way

It's not a privilege to have a happy life

With comforts all around you

And a future free of strife

It's not a privilege

It's every persons right

To know that they have health care

When a child gets sick at night

It's not a privilege to get an education

Go for it! Fight for it!

Don't feel intimidation

Get out and let your voice be heard

We can change things you and me

Because its not a privilege

To live with dignity

Watching the slick advertising during elections  insprired me to write the next poem.   Good sales people are  hired to sell bad products.   Many voters spend more time reading whats written on a box of cereal than they do about the political party they are about to let take control of their lives.

Of course if you're reading this page you can't  be one of the aformentioned.

Good Party Fare

When  you do your shopping

First - you check your needs

You're making an investment of a kind

You wouldn't spend on caviar

If your children cried for milk

Nor would you buy a paper if you're blind

When you bought your party

Ho many made a list?

And realized the price you'd hav to pay

The future of of your children

Is far to great a cost

So read the label carefully

On the 'bargain of the day"

And don't be fooled by labels

Read the finest print

For when you see a product "new impoved"

They're saying that the last one

Wasn't up to par

New improved's another term for goofed

The flashy slick commercials

They use o suck you in

Their "experts" your intelligence inuslt

They use you as a guinea pig

To check their products out

And "unemployment" cancer can result

I switched my barand of party

I wouldnt pay the price

I;m urging you to give my brand a try

It will cost you half the money

And do a beeter job

Unlike the present "popular" brand

That sold you on a lie