The World Needs Ditch Diggers Too: Nope! Welcome to the land of entitlement.

BLOG UPDATE:  The “Occupy” movement is getting violent.

So as I pay more attention to the 99%, which I apparently am a part of, I have noticed some of the attention given to the rising total of student loan debt. Since when did everyone need to go to a four year plus university? Why does everyone have to be a doctor or lawyer? What makes all these people spending trillions of dollars collectively that they don’t have on possibly a pipe dream they will never have? Then they enter a work place that is short on supply with a four year degree and a 40-50K debt coming due.

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT ENCLUDING ALL STUDENT LOAN RECIEPENTS IN THIS OK.  A $ 4 TRILLION DEBT HOWEVER, REALLY!? HAS EVERYONE THAT HAS GONE DOWN THAT PATH MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE?

We have a problem in this country we have undervalued the ditch digger. I am not using “ditch digger” in the negative at all, but more to sum up the blue collar job.  The blue collar job is dying, because we have given it a negative connotation. Tech jobs are the “way” of the future. We can’t find people to pick fruit, landscape, clean hotel rooms. These jobs are below the American standard so much to the point that we have an influx of immigrant, some illegal, to fill the void of our poor poor 99% that won’t go swing a hammer. Then we complain about the issues associated with these immigrants. I offer this, how about we put our 8-9% unemployed to work at these jobs. People would be back to work and illegal immigration would slow because there would be no jobs for them. Trust me they come here to work. But now Americans don’t want to do those jobs. Americans all want six digit salaries and all the bling that goes with it, can’t do that picking fruit. Welcome to the land of entitlement!

“I deserve …..”, you fill in the blanks. In America you can be whatever you want, but you may have to be what your skill set and circumstances allow you to be. That hurts to hear huh? The world needs ditch diggers too. I am in total awe of people that can dig ditches, construct buildings, do electrical work, do plumbing, lay tile, and can fix a car. I cannot do any of that. But guess what I cannot be a doctor or lawyer either! Thank God I found my place in public service. My skill set and circumstances, plus hard work, led me to where I am. I will never break the bank or have all the bling, but I can put food on the table and put clothes on my kids back.

Nowhere does it say that we as Americans are entitled to have a big house or fancy cars. Your life may lead you to a small apartment, a used car, and basic cable. Here’s the shocker that’s o.k.!!! It is not a life less lived. You can find happiness without material things and debt. You can be happy working a room service job living within your means. Don’t like it work harder find a second job. Find out where your skill set can take you, but remember it may not be the top, and that is O.K.

Take an honest evaluation of yourselves people there is no golden yearly salary that equals success and happiness. Also next time you enncounter someone doing a job you may have once thought below you, show them you appreciate what they do. Maybe we could change the ditch digger quote to, “The world needs a supporting cast too”

Occupy This I Am The 0%

It is time to blow the dust of this blog and re-ignite the Mole. I’ve had the thought of a comeback for a while but then I realized, I never left. All that was needed was a catalyst, a reason, something that I could wrap my brain around and make my own. I give you the Mole's break down of the “Occupy Movement”

DISCLAIMER: I UNDERSTAND NOT EVERYONE FITS INTO WHAT I AM ABOUT TO DISCRIBE. BUT FOR EVERY PERSON IN TRUE NEED I KNOW TWO THAT HAVE MORE THAN 50% OF THE BLAME FOR THEIR OWN PINCH. IF THE SHOE FITS WEAR IT, IF NOT, “MOVE ALONG, MOVE ALONG”.

I honestly feel for the small percentage of those protestors sitting out there with real gripes. People that have been left behind by our government, but most of them are victims of their own greed. That’s right GREED. Now I get it, the big bad corporations are the greedy ones, right? They pull whatever punches to pull a buck and get the things they want….me me me me…GREED! Let’s hang ‘em!, tax ‘em!, burn ‘em! Make them give up their wealth to me the poor guy who they tricked into buying their stuff. Huh? We bought their stuff?

You did we all did. You put off getting health insurance to get a new flat screen, a PS3, or the latest iGadget. You got rid of perfectly good things just to pay over inflated prices on the latest MUST have thing that their deceiving commercials twisted your arm to buy. You put it on credit cards paying no attention to an interest rate of over 20%. You had to get your greedy hands on it. In other countries people are trampled for food, in the US we trample people to get to any item labeled “five only at this price”.

You demanded to deregulate the home loan industry because you must be able to buy the same house as everyone else. Your greedy little fingers lied on your stated income to get a house you had no way to pay for in 5 years when your ARM adjusted.

You took 99 weeks as a vacation, your greed filled eyes relaxing at home with the new flat screen and PS3 all the while texting on your iPhone “I have a paid vacation” You took valuable and needed public assistance programs and turned it into a way of life, trying very little if at all to change your life. Your greed for a free ride quenched by a check from the dole every two weeks, the government owes it to you I know.

You have over indulged, over spent, and extended yourselves well past your means all the while feeding the corporate giants you so want destroyed now. You gave them the ammo to buy elected officials and then in turn elected the officials that could be bought, because they offered a free or easier ride, you greedy little free-loaders.

And now you sit and do nothing to show how mad you are, that your greed created the greedy corporate world. Have no doubt in your mind, you are the same person as those you hate, they just profited from your greed to feed theirs.

I’m not the 1% and I’m not the 99%. I’m part of the ever shrinking and always quite 0%. We go to work every day to earn money to SENSIBLY buy the products that fuel this economy. Without our spending businesses cannot create jobs. I go without the latest crazes so I may live below my means. I pay taxes to help those who need public assistance. What should we occupy? That’s right nothing we have work to do.

I came from welfare having very little to a place where I can give my family more than I had. I did it slowly, paying attention not to over stretch myself, not become greedy to the point of breaking.

These occupy movements have only one way to go, that is violent. Have you checked out Greece lately? Do you think we are move civil then those guys?

Pick yourselves up people, downsize, stand on the corner with the migrant workers looking for an honest day’s pay, join the armed forces, or collect cans. Do something find a way. There are still ways to support yourself. Granted you may not have all the latest and greatest things but that won’t bother you if you’re not greedy. That's all I got.

DISCLAIMER: I UNDERSTAND NOT EVERYONE FITS INTO WHAT  I HAVE JUST DISCRIBED. BUT FOR EVERY PERSON IN TRUE NEED I KNOW TWO THAT HAVE MORE THAN 50% OF THE BLAME FOR THEIR OWN PINCH. IF THE SHOE FITS WEAR IT, IF NOT, “MOVE ALONG, MOVE ALONG”.