Where am I going, what will I see? I'll see me.Hello Kmart shoppers! Or am I dating myself? It should actually read Walmart shoppers. Now that companies own the governments as well as most of the so called politicians, there is much more limited freedom than I remember growing up. Big Brother is alive and thriving. Thank you George Orwell. Since the corporations have taken over we have in the meantime turned into a Police State. One in a hundred US citizens is in jail. It is no longer the USA. It is AMERIKA. Now when you go to the store and/or the gas station, you carry that little device known as the cell phone. Are you being pinged by the IRS? The bloody IRS should be changed to corporation666. They have an insatiable appetite for your hard earned money which is to say, your life's blood. This includes your children and the rest of your family. What the world needs is empathy not gold prices. Have you taken a plate of cookies to your neighbors house lately? Instead of texting have you actually asked your neighbor to coffee and had a conversation face to face? Have you meditated (prayed) for the poor and suffering in the world all over? There are sick, blind, starving, insane, drug addicted, good people who are suffering this life while you are cutting me off on the freeway all because you are so special. Are you indulging in worldly delights? Well you can suffer the consequences of you own American narcissism. I am sorry but my friends and neighbors are suffering foreclosures, poverty, alienation, depression, violence, greed, drug addiction, all in the name of the American dream. Family members have been jobless for years. So please wake up and help someone today. Take something to the food bank. Take your elderly neighbor to the doctors visit. Make a quilt for your brother. Adopt an animal. It is all about kindness and empathy and the human condition. May the spirit in the sky be with you this holiday season and the next before the world economy collapses like it did in 1929. Rick