K so this is my first post, like ever in this guild n so here it goes, this was a basic format for an essay I was writing for my English class but I dropped it due to lack of time to devote to it. So in that way its semi-formal but its still written in MLA format though without the citing after the quotations. Hope you enjoy. ^^

K so I'm going to open with a Quote from Henry David Thoreau's Book Walden:

"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine."

This statement is as true today as it was back in 1854. Though we do have it a little better with our nations wonderful social programs, being sarcastic there, and workers unions, but the capitalist pigs are still trying to stuff their propaganda down our throats, even trying to take away programs that belong to us not only in this nation but as human beings. Now I am not one for criticisms but there is a point at which we have to look around and say, "Wait.... this isn't right!" Why must the government determine what we as human beings deserve, and deny us what is our rights.

In this time that we live in we need to be more accommodating to the workers of the world and others, rather than exploiting them for their productivity. The masses of men are now more machine than human. The masses of men are making minimum wage and still are below the poverty line. Why? This government that is supposedly for the people is only for one thing, money! An analogy that I find pretty humorous, but that’s me, is in the movie Cabaret there is a song called money. I'll post a few lines of the lyrics, but not all due to its length, but it is completely true.

"If you happen to be rich, and you feel like a night's entertainment, you can pay for a Gay escapade. If you happen to be rich, And alone, and you
Need a companion you can ring-ting-A-ling for the maid. If you happen
to be rich and you find you are left by your lover, though you moan and you groan quite a lot, You can take it on the chin, Call a cab, and begin to recover on your fourteen-Carat yacht. If you haven't any coal in the stove, and you freeze in the winter, and you curse on the wind at your fate. When you haven't any shoes on your feet, and your coat's thin as paper and you look thirty pounds underweight. When you go to get a word of advice from the fat little pastor, he will tell you to love evermore. But when hunger comes a rap, Rat-a-tat, rat-a-tat at the window...See how love flies out the door!"

Yeah that’s a bit long but it’s so true. How many times have any of us been living from paycheck to paycheck, not wanting to turn on the heater because we're afraid of the electric bill? How many of us have barely enough money after the necessities of life have to have at least the smallest amount of money for recreational activities? For a few of us that’s how we live. I am a student and I am working a part time job plus taking classes as a part time student. From my minimum wage job only working no more than 40 hours a week, I barely have enough money to pay rent on my apartment (500/month+utilities, about 200 more), gas for my commute to the campus (40 bucks a week), maintenance on my car (at most 100 a month). I barely have enough to get by, and I even have to borrow money from my parents to get by.

Now may not be true, but it seems that a majority of America is like this, living from each paycheck, hoping that they will survive another day. Sadly few of us can afford health-care, medications, and other programs that are available to the elite of America. We need to make these programs available to the masses of America, or as Thoreau says. “We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.”


I'll probably be writing a second part to this soon, cause I have to leave for now. LOL. So ya Hope ya enjoyed, feel free to respond and start a discussion or something.