You too can become a millionaire, by selling books on how to become a millionaire.

I think I need to come up with a get rich quick scheme.

I know I'm lucky to have a job, especially a job I enjoy.
I know I'm lucky to have a roof over my head, food on the table, and a warm place to sleep at night.

I know this.

I've seen what the rest of the country, and the rest of the world have been going through.
I've seen what people I've known and cared about have had to deal with over the last few years.

I'm grateful for the things that I have, and for the continued existence of those that I care about.

But damn if I'm not getting tired.

Tired of overpaid corporate types who keep telling us all to "knuckle down" or "do more with less", who get paid more in severance when they screw up than most of us will earn in a lifetime, who view people as expendable parts; tired overpaid political types (doesn't matter which party they belong to, they're all owned by the same folks) who obtained their positions through deception and ruthlessness, who get paid huge sums to to steal from us, who see it as their god given right to curtail our freedom and squander our resources, who tell us that "we're all equal under the law" and then demonstrate again and again that some are more equal than others; tired of the unbridled arrogance of our so called free press, and the prevailing belief among so many of the media types that they have a duty to "filter" and control and shape and distort the information that they disseminate to the general public.

I'm tired.

Tired of being told what I can say, what I can think, where I can go, what I can do. Tired of being told which moods and attitudes are acceptable. Tired of obeying rules which don't apply to those that make them. Tired of paying the debts of people who have never contributed a dime to improve my life, or the lives of those I care about. Tired of being expected to contribute to the well being of folks who have never worked an honest day, or gone to bed hungry. Tired of watching the best and brightest sacrificed for no good reason, or ground down and discarded by a system which has absolutely no intention of fulfilling any of the promises it makes. Tired of paying the price for other people's mistakes. Tired of the threats (veiled or otherwise) that are used to maintain the status quo. Tired of the double standards. Tired of the corruption. Tired of the lies. Tired of the bullshit.

I'm just tired.

But I think the thing that bothers me most is that I know, not feel but know, that there isn't a damn thing I can do to change any of it.

And moreover I fear that in a decade, two at the outside, we'll all be looking back on these as "the good old days".