Explain it to me Lucy!

Why is the media counting down Chelsea Clinton's wedding? Why does Lindsay Lohan make front page news? Are there not more important events occuring in this country? What is our fascination with car wrecks? There are good people doing amazing things - where is their five minutes of fame? Celebrities and professional athletes want publicity; most of them anyway. Have you ever seen Jody Foster on a rag sheet? No, she keeps herself to herself. Tiger Woods sold us a bill of goods, we bought it - we were duped! Now he does not want to answer questions about his personal life...PLLLLLLLease - Woods made a billion dollars because he was driven to be the best and because we bought what he was selling. Leave his wife and children alone - they did not ask to be in the spotlight. There is something fundamentally wrong with watching someone crash and burn - we watch people's lives fall apart; if we didn't watch the media would still put it out there. Shoot the media can't wait for the next scandal to reveal itself. I like Survivor, Big Brother - I know they are edited for maximum controversy. I also realize the producers stoke the fires of rivalries - Better than either of these shows is The Deadliest Catch; there is no need to edit for drama - every moment on one of those boats is life and death, it is not contrived - I should not enjoy Intervention, but I do (still amazed someone could become addicted to air in a can. How do you think of sniffing a can of air?)At the end of the show I hope they say the person finished rehab and is still sober - that does not seem to happen a lot. Life is a challenge, this I know - how have we become so far from where we were or where we should be? Last election the citizens of this country voted democrats as the majority - only my opinion, but the Dem's talked a lot about change - shaking things up - a new beginning - and the citizens of this country said; "Heck Ya! We need, nay we want change!" What has happened? Nothing! Politics as usual. Can you vote for how much of a raise you receive? If we elect members of congress should we not also elect the amount of their raises? Teachers across the country are taking pay cuts and furlough days - perhaps some of those millionaire congress people need to give back a little of their raise - maybe give teachers a bit of it. The economy is in the tank, crime is up - domestic violence is up, drug and alcohol abuse is on the rise - What was congress discussing yesterday? Passing a bill to create a search team to form a committee which would oversee another committee whose purpose is to evaluate the effect of the housing market on the building industry - WHAT? Not only was the bill convoluted, it is stupid! (I don't like the word stupid, in this case it is the needed word) We all know if people are losing their homes, then people are not buying homes, thus - building new houses is kind of silly. There, we just saved the taxpayers millions of dollars! Good for us. That post going around FB yesterday listing the names of fallen soldiers - that is not news you can catch on any network. News outlets don't tell us about the soldiers we are losing in a country where we are not wanted fighting a war against an enemy we cannot see - does that make any sense? When people fight for religious beliefs, you cannot stop them. Is it any of our business? Could the billion dollars a week we spend in Afghanistan be put to better use? Ah, yes I think so. I believe a revolution is coming. There is a point of boiling during which the middle class, average, law abiding citizens, are going to get fed up - our government need not fear the extremists - fear the middle class. When that last straw falls on the back of the middle class then we will have revolution - I don't know how long it will take. Middle class folk are hard working, law abiding, church going, family oriented people. The middle class are the peanut butter and jelly of our country - when the middle class finally can't swallow anymore they will make a ruckus which will shake our country and bring change. The middle class will tell Congress, ENOUGH! The middle class will tell credit card companies and banks, and all the other multi-million organizations - ENOUGH! Then the revolution will begin - At some point in time, in the not so distant future, the citizens of this country will remember The Constitution and The Bill of Rights and we will start to say; "No more!" They can't throw us all in jail - though we spend more money on prisons than we do on education - I guess they might try to throw all the middle class in jail - that would be funny - perhaps a good reality show - I bet some network would try to get it on the air.