Listen, There Is A Message, Even In Chaos

Do I condone reckless rioting? NO! Not at all. Do I understand social frustration? YES! Yes I do. I cannot comment with personal knowledge on the reasoning for the civil disobedience happening in the UK, but I can say with all familiarity the frustration of being a minority, already on the lower echelon of society, during economic crises.

Everybody is at a fever pitch and ready to burst out in anger, but they are not sure who to place blame. Boiling anger brings forth uncontrolled raging steam. To my dismay I recognize we here in the USA may have our own tea kettle ready to boil over. We all know steam can be faultlessly scalding hot. Do we blame the steam when we get burned or is the blame more appropriately given to the one who lights the fire?

One of the hottest fires being kindled today is "austerity" that leaves the rich free of any obligation to participate in the pain of economic reconstruction. The people who are less able to balance our national debt are being asked to bear the full burden. The rich have an ironclad excuse not to participate. They say they are the "job creators" and that's enough!. Really?? I can hear the rich now after being scorched and blistered from rising hot social steam of dissent, displayed by riots, when the people have had "enough"!