I Told You So, Says Ross Perot!
I can remember the year 1992 when Ross Perot was running for President of the United States. As a business man and scholar who had a vision and an understanding of common sense he shared a lot of unpleasant facts. He was a man with integrity and was saying things that went against the grain but had truth in what he was envisioning the future to be as he saw it if we continued on the path we were on.
As the elections grew Ross Perot had divided the popular vote and swayed over a third of the country into action. We believed in him and every honest working class citizens from sea to shinning sea was voting for him. I did not know anyone who wasn’t. After he lost I called everyone I knew to confirm who they voted for. I called my relatives, my friends, my colleagues, everyone and they all voted for him. So how did he loose? My pools said he should have won by a landslide. In the past we were divided on who we voted for.
That was the day I became very skeptical over the government as a young man raising a family of 5 and paying taxes out of my ass with no real benefits of having a family on a just above poverty line set by the IRS. We struggled then and we struggle today. But Ross saw the writing on the wall and predicted everything that is happening to us today.
Some way some how we let the truth to be denied and the status quo to go on and here we are today. The bank bailout relieved our cost of the fuel we demand. I don’t know about you, but the first thing I saw change after the bank bailout was gas prices changing overnight from almost 5 bucks a gallon to 2 bucks a gallon. I have not seen any changes since. Have you? Oh, and as far as that gas price goes, get ready, the bill for the loan is coming soon.
Well, today is the day. Ross told us, we let his wisdom and advice go to waste and here we are. Are we in a dire straight? You bet we are. Are we heading to shore with a broken rudder? You bet we are. And it is so complex that there is no real solution but to watch things run the course. Or do we? We have a choice and we better make it or someone else will, one more time. They will take those dreams away that you deserve. Take away the opportunities for you to grow, be happy and prosper. Take away the given right as a person to choose what is best for you and your neighbor. Soon you will have no choice and you will have to do exactly what is expected of you and then you will understand what it is like not to have a choice or the opportunity to practice the freedom to express and be the great things that you are meant to be.
It is time to fix what is broken because it is not working anymore. I challenge GREAT MINDS TO COME OUT. The engineers, the scientists, the teachers, the CEO’s, the professors, the philosophers to help answer some of the questions on what they think is broke and a solution to fix it. With so many broken cogs we shouldn’t run out of topics and solutions. It is a day of unity and creativity to solve tomorrow’s problems we face.
