While WE were sleeping....

Experts all conclude that sleep is one of the most beneficial practices required by the human body.  One might examine what keeps us from sleep or awake. I have pondered that question and have followed the logic to slightly different application.

I can speak for myself when it comes to the subject of sleep.  I have mastered the power nap, the pass out from exhaustion, the bored slumber, and the call of just being lazy.  All of these have a prerequisite that creates the condition of sleep, with the best of them being a good Thanksgiving Day meal.

My point is, sleep and the absence of it is conditional.  Supply the condition and humans tend to react.  After service of 25 years I know a little about sleep deprivation.  I also know a little about truncation of sleep time. I can get by on four hours for extended periods of time. I can stay up for 48 hours if I must. Physically comfort is abandoned when exhaustion takes over. The body demands sleep at some point. Many times sleep is a matter of being comfortable and relaxed.

I look at the world we live in and wonder why and how people can be asleep. People are losing jobs not because companies are closing. Jobs are being lost because company heads want bigger profits.  Public education is not under attack for any reason but profit.   

Wall Street and Wall Street wannabes have figured out that EDUCATION is the last pot of money they can raid.  The same dreams and faulty financing that took the equity out of all our homes and almost collapsed the entire financial system is headed to your school district. WHY are WE SLEEP? Do you remember what the US economy was when The President first got in office?  The US was on the verge of collapse. Are WE full from some meal, dog tired, or just trained to stay sleep.  Are WE hypnotized or in love? What has US so asleep that we keep losing OUR OPPORTUNITY to STOP THEM? 

Voting is important. It always has been and always will be.  It is why they spend so much money to keep their favorites in office. They trick US into thinking we don’t matter… because to them WE DON’T. They trick US into believing the ads when every other day we know we don’t have super powers and neither do they.  The one day of the year we do have super powers is ELECTION DAY.  In one day we can fire all of them. It is what they FEAR. It is why they want us ASLEEP. I remain UNCOMFORTABLE the entire time I am a public servant because as long as one constituent is uncomfortable there is a concern on which to work. It is an honor to serve. It is MY pleasure to be of service.

They have mastered what it takes to put people to sleep.  WE have to master how to wake people up. They have control of the images we see and sounds we hear. They do not control what you find when you look.  They do not control how hard you fight, how long your fight, or who you decide to stand with.  Those choices are yours, and yours alone. I ask that you be awake. Stay awake. This does not end in NOVEMBER.  Freedom is something that must be guarded, watched over and protected. We cannot fall asleep on guard duty and we can no longer expect the few vigilant warriors to shoulder this fight alone. Student debt is OUR biggest threat as our young were sold empty dreams of success. They keep raising interest rates on students and the cost of tuition. My daughter’s out of pocket dorm expenses when from $5 to $300 in a single year and they are still climbing.

Public schools budgets have deficits that are always equal to the money they pay charter schools as the charters get their money first at a funding rate of over 96%.  No public school budget that has charter schools in their district has ever received 100% of total funding.  In fact here is what  the numbers say, according to

http://www.politifact.com/new-jersey/statements/2013/nov/10/chris-christie/chris-christie-tells-teacher-school-funding-highes/ “… Christie’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget called for nearly $9 billion in education funding, about $1 billion more than the previous year. Under that spending plan, state aid to schools increased $97 million. While no district saw a state aid decrease, many either received an increase of $1 or their funding stayed the same as the previous year.”

NO ONE in the STATE house will ask where the money is going or how much much money has gone that same route without accountability. I have asked and got no response. I have asked the Majority Assembly Committee of Education. Yes my questions are a part of official hearings recorded on education. I have asked about the SDA money that is supposed to be in the BILLIONS that has just disappeared. I have awakened from the nightmare to find the world asleep. 

The realities of NJ taxes, corruption, and cronyism keep me awake. The reality of misappropriation keeps me awake. The injustice keeps me awake. I realize that to keep this covered up they HAVE TO WIN. They have to spend millions to cover up the BILLIONS that are missing.   

Please do not go to sleep on November 4^th until you have VOTED. Be exhausted with what they are doing to ALL OF US. Be irritable and cranky until you VOTE. For those of US honored with votes from our people, WE will serve ALL THE PEOPLE. Those who have taken the people for granted will continue to do so.  VOTES matter. WE MATTER. DOES anybody hear me? Are you still asleep?