The Voting is done I voted, so I can Bitch 'n' Moan - How About You?
Who lost, who won is over.
Gripe'n'Groan.
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by Joe B. Tuesday, Nov. 5th is over I voted earlier on after the march from 24th and Mission to a long way around City Hall to have Tenderloin and other neighborhood’s who haven’t joined be part of the march. Supervisor Chris Daly won his bid for a first four year term upsetting, negative voices not giving him a chance to win. People counting votes live on screen hour to hour as happens in both state and national elections. Newsom’s still around and as for the alphabet Propositions I’m not going into which one or lost look to newsprint for the hard facts. What really tickled me was the crestfallen faces as they found out San Francisco lost the bid for hosting the 2012 Olympics. I even heard there were tears in many a grown woman, and man’s eyes as the realization sank in. They wanted it so bad, this would’ve meant money for rebuilding hotel, hostels, office rentals, and another removal or homeless, working poor and families out of sight and minds as the festivities of the games began. To bad. Deal with reality of working poor and homeless folk with not enough work, food, money, housing while this city is afloat in hoarded money. New York thinks it will rid the homeless by removing them from Olympic Games but all it will do is have a temporary shuffling of street to street, shelter to shelter near though not quite invisible. If houseless, working poor families and individuals are driven underground into the subway system siphoning electricity, water, for themselves it will drive up prices for everyone not to mention health problems living like moles under the city. If the words "Morlocks and Eloi" sound familiar its because they are from a classic work of science fiction. "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells in 1896, 106 years later it still resonates with readers young and old. More of a parable of things to come (no pun intended of yet another futuristic movie by the same name). What I’m saying is if people are driven to desperate for survivals sake to chose living underground rather than living topside then New York could be creating a real Eloi/Morlock situation. I’m wrong in this far fetched notion right? The way houseless people have been vilified, demonized is a familiar first step in "Other Creation" that is turning human beings into something less than human. Look through his/her - stories around the world, whom ever does not fit so called parameters of what a society says is the norm is automatically wrong. Child molesters, rapists, serial killers are, people that bomb, or assassinate are true monsters among us walking in suits, married with children. They must be sought after, arrested, studied, and executed if not cured of their mental Illnesses. Other so called monsters are made for economic gain; slaves, wild original people’s, or women, men defying societal convention. Being houseless, working poor is for a few people an invitation to beat someone economically lower than themselves out of feeling superior. We cannot go back to making poor folks seem evil or as a negative reward for drugs, alcohol not working hard when in truth most are not on drugs, have worked hard and for all their loyalty are laid off, fired, or downsized. Either we all rise up warning, watching, catching, helping each other or we end up as two separate species of humanity of light and dark. I want one species, we all should be of the light. Readers with other opinions, tell me or others by snail or email, telegraph, or telepathic but get the word out, spread it far and wide in every language of every culture. We have to break this seemingly Orwellian mindset that is happening now or never be free or help set other countries and people free. P.S. I do think since young children 14 and up are more savy, connected, absolute with it. They should be given the choice to vote also. We need all those intelligent, sensitive, informed voices now not at an arbitrary age of magical maturity. What do parents, young folks or anyone thinks about the idea?… Bye. Please send donations to For Joe only my snail mail: Email: askjoe@poormagazine.org |