HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008

I want to wish the world a happy new year. After the year I just experienced, this one should be a piece of cake in comparison. I can only hope so, anyway. It has been a year of new beginnings and lots of endings too. I would compare my year as something comparable to an episode from the twilight zone series. I learned things about our society that I wish were not true. Now in light of these new learning's, I find myself in a situation to which I must fight my way back above ground so I can survive. It isn't a happy situation by any stretch of the term. I have developed a much more empathetic nature for those who must deal with labels (deserved or not deserved)to which every basic need for survival has been affectedly compromised. We have a system that will not allow anyone whether proven guilty or not, find a way to earn a living in any normal manner. It is ridiculous that it only takes an accusation for arrest, with out a trial, and your name is mud. Forget about the evidence all together. I am appalled at what I have seen some people near and dear to me have to go through just to find employment to feed and shelter themselves. It is a travesty. The system is broken and we need to find a way to fix it now. I hope that 2008 wakes up many people who are living in a dream world. We are headed in an ugly direction in many different ways right now. It will only get worse if we pretend all is well in LaLaland, USA