Is this Life?

There comes a time in every person's life when they wake up in the morning and realize that "life was supposed to have been different than what it is." When we suddenly realize that "I (me) am not the sole reason this whole big evolutionary soup" was cooked up as a result of an explosion or two (and a few collisions) over the course of 4 billion years.

For many, sadly, this realization only casts its shadow across their greedy little lives when the energy in life has been expended; when, it is simply too late to reapply our energies, those granted to us by God (or, merely poured into us via the mixing and churning soup), and to affect other beings and things in, life-supporting, life-positive, life-friendly ways.

For those, who, perhaps, do not make such realizations in their youth, they struggle forward, searching, hurting, offending, imbibing, stealing, cheating, expending, hating and wasting this one, this simple and only, resource each of us have.

Some choose their path to participation by having children--the single greatest life-supporting and selfless act their truly is--but giving birth and then raising, as we know, are different uses of resources. The dedicated parent is a hero; but, this does not mean that they are free to hurt others, steal or cheat so as to make the lives of their offspring better. I, though, am not a parent...yet! So, I do write with from a place of distance, safely, securely able to comment on a parent's actions/reactions to the never-ending twists and turns which line the path of our way.

Greed is not a life-supporting emotion. Shouting out, voting against "family planning" programs (which usually try to educate the least ready to have babies as to why they might want to consider not having babies until they can safely support them), is selfish. When these babies of teens or babies of ghettoes or rural poverty grow up to commit crimes or abuse drugs, who are usually the first to deny them help; but, rather they seek to incarcerate them?

When President Obama says: "let's invest in America", he is supporting life for all Americans. When the Republicans say: "let's cut taxes", they are supporting the wealthy, the greedy, those who enjoyed happy holidays spending their fat corporate bonuses; picking out new drapes for their offices (at $11,000) or even garbage cans for $1,400. While the janitor in that same company was laid off because "hey, you know times are gettig tough...", for him and his family, $1,400 would have been the difference between a Merry Christmas; and, one where, instead, in despair, he drank too much, hit his wife on Christmas Day in front of the kids and then he too broke down and cried.

While he cried and his wife wiped the blood from her nose, a 27-year old analyst from a Wall Street company that had received billions in bailout, was marveling at his new Caddilac.

Life is worth supporting. Life in our America should be supported, made better, sounder, smarter, cleaner, better for all Americans. Nothing done by the Republicans under Bush (and they continue today) has made our nation better for all Americans.

The time has come for Republicans in Congress to wake up and to realize that they are obligated to contribute to life-friendly causes (and voting against abortion and stem-cell research are not life-supporting): life-friendly is pro-American!

Barack Obama is offering us a chance to make our nation what it could have become had we not been poisoned by greed. We are on the precipice. We can step back, light a fire in the fireplace and pass down stories to our kin of "the great almost-collapse"; or, we can step off and fall and fall and fall...and when we hit the bottom, we will be certain of one thing: taxes were cut for the wealthy.