People always say that the two things you do not ever discuss are religion and politics. Well personally, I disagree. Religion, spiritual belief, whatever you want to call it, is something that defines the innermost thoughts, joys, loves and fears in all of us. It needs to be discussed. We just need to remember as we discuss it that we cannot force it down each other's throats. That's the joy of having a free will. It's that we can all stop and listen to what each other has to say without having to worry about having an opinion that we don't necessarily agree with be forced on us. Especially living in countries like the United States, where free speech and the right to assemble are rights that we have been guaranteed under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But despite these rights, there is still a major blow to our freedom that is going on right in front of our noses.

The United States is socially divided into three primary classes: The upper, middle and lower classes. Each of those classes, as most people know, represents a different financial group of American citizen. There is of course, the poor, who are regarded as the lower class, then we have the working class, which makes up the majority of people in America, then finally, there is the upper class. Now, the upper class is usually the group that many Americans would like to be financially associated with simply because of the abundance of money that exists within this class. What we don't think about, however, is a certain, more business-defining section of the upper class which a lot of people simply call, "Corporate America." Corporate America is the community of big businesses that exist within the United States, and this is where the problem lies that I'm addressing.

Corporate America, naturally, started as a few businesses taking advantage of the American Dream and becoming privately successful without reservation. And that, of course, is how it should be. We should all have that opportunity. And normally, we would; under the Constitution. But unfortunately, we are losing that right. More and more every day, Corporate America is growing, and every day, it's taking more and more advantage of us, the American public. Think about it. I mean yeah, we go around, living our lives every day, going to school or work or whatever, watching TV, listening to the radio, reading the paper, getting online. But what doesn't seem to register is that we've become brainwashed. Brainwashed by the corporate media. Brainwashed by the sales and marketing companies. Brainwashed by that slick-looking guy or sophisticated-looking woman who stands there and smile and makes us believe that without their products, we'd be nothing. And then that little credit card logo pops up on the screen and we get charged $49.95 (Plus shipping and handling) for an item that probably cost about $10.00 to make, if even that much. Overall, they have us brainwashed into believing that making, spending and basically selling our souls to money is the only thing that is truly worth any effort in life, and sadly, they are correct, in a way. This is because, they have turned our "Free society" into a place where you are a prisoner in your own life if you don't make truckloads of money. In this society, there is no freedom without money. And this is all because, the idea of any time not spent making more cash for the corporations is becoming time that is wasted and thrown away like garbage.

And you know, what's really amazing is that all of the ridiculous propaganda we're subjected to every day is just the beginning. We have college tuitions that keep us in debt for half of our lives and cell phone companies that charge us like our phones are made of gold but give us service so bad that we couldn't find a signal if we attached the phone to a tower. We have employers that are so cheap that they'd rather provide lousy customer service by running their businesses on skeleton crews than to actually hire people to fill the important positions that need to be filled; and many times, the people that they do hire are hired and kept part time so that the employers don't have to pay for benefits. We have gas prices that could bankrupt the Federal Reserve and a real estate market that charges us so much money, you'd think the properties each came with the fountain of youth. We have doctors and other healthcare-related providers who charge us so much money for their products and services that they violate their own Hippocratic Oath. We have car commercials at Christmas time that show people giving each other $50,000 cars for Christmas as if everyone in the world did that. And above all, we have prices in general that are unbelievably high for products that are just barely good enough in quality to be sold on any legitimate market.

In addition to all of this, we also have the fact that recently, the Supreme Court ruled that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses; even if it's against their will; for the sake of private economic development. We have three primary national credit agencies that have established god-like power over much of our personal financial development, bill collectors and telemarketing agencies that can call our homes and harass our families despite the previous efforts of a national "no call list" which was suddenly stopped in action and then apparently vanished from nationwide enforcement. And on top of it all, we have finance charges, "maintenance fees," interest rates, "additional usage" fees, late fees when you miss making one payment on time, one time, and yet, federal minimum wage has people making less than $200.00 a week after taxes. And these are taxes imposed by a government that will not offer us state-paying healthcare despite the criminally high costs, and they'll complain that we just cannot afford to care for our elderly population through social security anymore, but yet, they can tax us on just about everything but breathing and then send billions of dollars to some foreign country in order to make the themselves look good in front of their own trade partners and international corporate investors. And please, don't misunderstand me on that last statement. I completely agree with the concept of the United States, being as rich as our country is, helping other nations who have not been as blessed as we have. What I do have a problem with, however, is when our government will give so much money to help these people in other countries, but yet, we still have people without healthcare or shelter or food or an education right here in America, simply because they just cannot afford the cost of living . And on top of all this, we have ourselves, our families, our friends; everyone we care about, trying as hard as they all can to succeed at simply being able to live a decent life here, but every day, it becomes more and more difficult.

And on top of all of these problems, we have a situation in which very few working-class people own their own homes anymore. Most everyone now has to pay mortgages and interest rates for 30 years since Corporate America realized the kind of money they could make off of people's debts. Fewer and fewer people actually do what they want to do as careers anymore. They end up doing whatever they have to do in order to satisfy the greed of the corporations, just so that they can make enough money to survive. Our economy is becoming nothing more than a corporate executive's bank account, and it's sad, because the poor and the working class; the people that turn the wheels and make up our society; are the ones who are suffering for it.

The point that I'm making here is that our society is becoming more and more of a chess game for the corporates, and we just keep letting it happen. We let it happen because
the corporations tell us through the media
that they're too rich and we're too common so
there's nothing we can do about it, and then
the government uses the money they get from corporate gifts and our taxes to finance their own lavish lifestyles. And, the saddest part about all of this is that of everything I mentioned here, it's still just a generalization of the problem. The specifics and exact situations have become virtually immeasurable.

What we need to do now; the point that I'm making here; is that we have to make our voices heard, which is why I set up this petition. Everyone is always complaining about the job that the president is doing, but who ever really makes any suggestions about what could be done to change this situation? We need to do something, because if we don't, the situation is just going to get worse. You see, there is absolutely nothing wrong with people becoming financially successful here. It's what America is all about. It's what our military forces are fighting and risking and losing their lives for. Freedom. But it's not right when the freedoms of others are compromised by the greed of the powerful. Not here, not anywhere. Put very simply, we need higher wages, lower prices and leaders, not politicians, in our government offices who consult more often with the people while they're in office instead of just making changes in our system based on their own personal agendas. We have the right to speak up as people of this great country. And it's about time that we used that right to truly stand up as Americans before the prices get higher, the wages get lower and America becomes a place where if you do not represent some industrial special interest, then you truly are worth nothing...and our children, their children and so on...are going to be the ones paying higher and higher prices...and suffering more.

In conclusion, I just would like to say that I hope no one gets the wrong idea here. This is not at all an anti-American message. It is a message a that is being sent in support of the good of the American people, regardless of anyone's political party. And regardless of anyone's political party, we need to stand together here and start speaking up about this problem because it's not about the Republican agenda or the Democratic agenda. It‘s not about the conservatives or the liberals. The right wing or the left wing or the Independents or the Right-To-Lifers. It is not at all about the agenda of any other social or political party...It's about the good of America. A good that we all suffer for...and benefit from.

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