OCTOBER 6, 2022
Fall in the Finger Lakes,
a meeting in Canandaigua,
a nature reserve visit on West Hill
north of Naples, the season at early
peak, all the colors including green,
the thick, deep forests of the Allegheny
Plateau chasing the underfunded farms
North to Lake Ontario
Back up on Interstate Ninety,
heading home to Syracuse, farm and forest
blowing by, tractor-trailers slightly menacing
at over seventy miles per hour, global commerce
heading home to Portland, Maine and Boston,
to the Port of New York City, the territory
in-between drenched in the colors of confident
change, fanning the flames of our faith
in the future, calling attention to the
numinous rhythms of this beautiful place
where we live!
~Doing the Math with Governor Pritzker in Illinois ~
Spending $324 million to get elected and reelected
May not be a crime
But when $331 million is the state's mental health budget
Let's hope it's not a paradigm
For a state that shrieks, 'We're underfunded!'
Look at what its 'Number One Son' did
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Gov. Pritzker spent over $171 million to get elected in 2018
and over $152 million this year to get reelected... Both he
and the voters lament the underfunding of mental services
in the state. Hmmmm. ... Do the math.
Chairman Xi, like Chairman Mao
Vladimir Putin, shades of Josef Stalin
Kim Jong-un, plus Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Iranian Mullahs producing drones and bombs
Our world is an awfully dangerous place
Yet America's response is a first-class disgrace
Yesterday Congress' focus on International Pronoun Day
At New York's UN today, autocrats against Israel inveigh
At home, crime's way up, 'so' we end cash bail
Why not let all the thugs out of jail
To protect its citizenry, America's government once existed
Now it opens the borders, its explanations ham-fisted
Add to all this rampant inflation, rising racial tensions
Plus self-defeating 'green goals' and underfunded pensions...
The 'threat to democracy' shouters couldn't be more wrong
The reason it's real ~ America misguided is no longer strong
With software the devil possessed
They've outsmarted EPA's test
So avoid the behind
Don't inhale near the hind
Of Volkswagen's diesel “skunk” pest
Author's note: A case for more, not less, federal regulation. This is an example of what is wrong with underfunded federal agencies and our reliance on self-certification. Meanwhile, what happened to all that carcinogenic air?
-WHY!?-
Why do the many "Great United
Nations" of the world;
Suffer from underfunded education,
while taxing with frivolous expectations,
researching into lab based creations?
Enact vast unjustifiable laws,
endorsed by a corporate cause,
to eliminate and perfect human flaws?
Have men, women and kids on the streets,
enduring poverty and self defeat,
hungrily watching the upper class eat?
Support political and business corruption,
profiteering from the production,
of environmental and human destruction?
For we, the people of these many nations,
have allowed ourselves to be victims by
not taking a stand hand in hand. Let us
unite as a race and break through their
grand lies, by first asking ourselves...
"WHY!?"
-Anonymously youRs-
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