Oy! The Justice..

Well I should have named this blog neglection Part Deux, but I didn't. Once again it's been a little while since I have shared my thoughts with you. So let's get the small talk out of the way first.... This weekend is my 2 favorite guys Birthdays! HAPPY 25TH ERIC AND JASON!!! This weekend you will most likely find my downtown D-town once again. The infamous Car Show is going on, I can't wait to dream and drool all over the new cars that I cannot afford. Even better, there is a huge Winter Festival going on downtown, there's music, food, ice skating and a 200 foot snow slide. Small talk is over, but I am going to tie my small talk into some current events. Speaking of Detroit, today on my ride into work I was listening to WJLB and overheard a wonderful little story on Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Here's a little info for you: 1. The Super Bowl is coming to town shortly, new businesses are opening up, renovations are being made to the slums and weed over-grown parking lots. People are losing their jobs left and right in Detroit. I think it's totally fair to cut jobs and wages to try and fix a horrendous mess that should have been fixed a long time ago ( I hope you caught my sarcasm) 2. No matter how much they "try" to "fix-up" Detroit (I use those two terms lightly) Detroit will be Detroit. People from out of town will not feel more safe because you cleaned the weeds out of the parking lot by Ford Field, they will not feel more safe because you tore down an abandoned building. These things should have been taken care of long ago. Those run down houses could have and should have been torn down and re-built as affordable housing for the working people of Detroit. Abandoned businesses should have been gutted and used either for homeless shelters or for new businesses. I know a few local artists that would give an arm for some working space, I know a few independent business owners would love to have a small quaint little space to sell their wares. Now that was the brief history and editorial, back to the radio. They announced today that there was a brand spanking new Red Lincoln Navigator purchased in Detroit, but not by a wealthy doctor or entrepreneur but by the Detroit Police Department. Hmmmm, a huge RED Navigator, to be used for undercover drug busts. Damn I know if I made a living off selling drugs in Detroit and a huge red SUV was pulling up I would go straight to that window and sell them drugs. Is it not asinine that they would used such a luxurious car, cruise it around town and buy drugs from all these people. I think the people of Detroit, especially ones who chose that type of work would figure that one out rather quickly. So here's the kicker, the Mayor's wife was either seen or wants to drive it (don't quote me it's what I heard on the radio) It seems to me that while all these job cuts and poverty in Detroit are happening, the police dept and especially not the Mayor or mayors wife should be purchasing such things. If you are an official ( and I am not knocking the Mayor or Detroit, I love Detroit, it has so much potential) in a time of change and need, I would take the 5 karat studs out of my ears, I would ride the bus to work, get to know the people, experience what everyone else has to experience on a daily basis. These officials need to understand why America seems to be so angry, where's the justice? Why should they parade around in barrages of expensive cars and wear the top of the line suits, why would they, to rub it in the face of the poverty stricken, and the working class? Does it make them feel as if they are irreplaceable, or better then the people they are overseeing? This leads me into my next argument. Inaugural Ball is just around the corner. Now, my friends know and my enemies know that I did not support President Bush in the last election nor the election before that, however, he is the President and there's basically nothing I can do about that. What I can do though is speak my mind (since it's a "free" country, right?) I totally see the point on spending millions to have 9 Inaugural Balls for a President that was re-elected (maybe), well with the mud slides and flooding and tsunami's we need a little fun right? Anyone, I mean anyone, right wing, left wing, green party, poor, homeless, rich, working, welfare whatever.... would see the need for this (once again I detect some sarcasm) Couldn't we take that money that would be spent on these elaborate snooty balls and send some over to California, and the rest of the West that was flooded and torn apart, why not send some over to the Tsunami victims family? Why not take that money and try to get people off of side walks and feed hungry mouths here in our country. I see the point in sending BILLIONS over to Iraq to rebuild people that are basically ungrateful for our so called help. Take that money Mr. President and disperse it to all the fallen solders families, since everyone knows that they get next to squat after losing a son or daughter, after sending their children off into an unnecessary battle against corrupt people that are not going to change on our account. This is a free country, this country is fair and just, if you have the money and know the right people. I stick up for every underdog and every top dog that truly deserve it. We needed a change, one was promised but never given, and not recently, this has been a promise ever since I was old enough to understand the words out of Mr. Reagan's mouth. I am a 23 yr old left wing, liberal. I am also able to see both sides of a story, what I don't understand is, why can't anyone else, if I can do it, it is certainly not hard at all. If America would get off it's high horse and realize there are others in this world, they were born the same way we all were, they put their clothes on just like us. Why do we get treated like were of a different breed? It's just my opinion, I know it doesn't really matter, but it matters to me. I have a strong passion for justice and fairness, ask my friends.