After my rant yesterday about the insurance issue, I had a thought that somehow people will do what is right. The fact is some people are just driven by  greed and doing "the right thing" just isn't part of their thinking. The lines of right and wrong are constantly blurred by corporations, banks, conglomerates, and government. The question of how to change the broken system is inherently flawed because the belief that doing the right thing isn't as profitable. Many people are well intentioned, myself included and at the end of the day I have what I need. But so many don't and that is not fair. People say that you should work for what you want and quit complaining, and life isn't fair... there again that too is also flawed. Some of us  are not highly educated which leaves us poorer than most. If we somehow manage to squeak by, and get an education and a job with insurance we are almost guaranteed to be in debt for most of  our thirties paying off student debt. If we do get insurance we are still living week to week and one major hospitalization away from financial and economic ruin. And we did the right thing.

So what do we do? We change the way business is done!! People first, and yes it is that simple. We punish those who are without or in need, we treat them  as a lesser people that are not worthy of existence. Why is it so hard to help those in need and do what is right?  We change it... it can be done!

Germany just recently announced that all universities will offer free tuition, Sweden gives maternity leave for a year and  free day care, Australia has a minimum wage of $16.00 per hour and avoided the recession that we sank into, Frances gives it's workers three weeks vacation per year and 30 hour work week, Other countries offer free insurance and invest more in education. Did the countries come unraveled from investing in their own people? No they didn't actually the opposite occurred and they thrived. Not all the the countries have it right but the line in the sand has been drawn and it  clear that we need to do better. We are keeping the division of the "have and have nots" flowing long enough. Doing right for one, does right for all. We will all benefit from doing what is right for humanity instead of doing what is  right for  profit margins. 

I vow to do better and to encourage others to follow, one act of kindness will destroy one act of greed.