Anyhoo, with the NFL draft coming up, NBA basketball in full swing, the Big Dance a day away (GO DUCKS!), and MLB Opening Day just a week away, this is a very exciting time for sports fans world over. And as I watched the Bosox nearly boycott a game because of coach compensation issues, I could only sit and wonder what it would be like if they really had no money, you know, like me. The money being floated around in professional sports is appalling, and so is the poverty that has the whole world in it's unrelenting grasp. It is amazing that while the sports icons continue to sign record contracts, normal people are getting booted out of their homes, their jobs, and their health insurance.Why not stop giving more money to sports and address the financial crisis that is about to throw us into the biggest recession since, well, the recession? And instead of the FED injecting billions of dollars into the stock market, why not shoot it into the veins of the schools, hospitals, and child, senior and disabled services that need it so much more than some rich jerk who might lose his third home in Maui if his investments go south? Why not make the oil companies give back their record profits in the form of deep cuts at the pump, thus allowing the common folk to have more money for other necessities in life? Why not? Because the rich are in charge of everything, and until that changes, they will continue to have more money while the rest of us have more problems.
So much for a FREE country.
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