While the Goliath Corporate foot print still delivers a crushing load on the back of American families and Cheney beats on with a false heart, memories of how pretzel eating beer fest got us in this twisted mess, continue to fade from our rear view mirror, while repelling repeal residue of Boehner, McConnell and Cantor impedes national restoration, with baby steps in Palin furor.

It’s tough trying to balance short and long term goals when there’s no money coming in, but we still have choices on how to get around the bend:  Lincoln -- “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time,” or GW oil -- “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”  Which American do you want to be?  Most of the time anything seems better than nothing when we can’t see, but we’ve got to stop helping Corporate Un-American Activities cloud our vision with re-direction and misguided projection, “From Sea to Shining Sea.”

Here’s the cold water in our face:  After a quarter of a year, BP Oil Leak Stops, we hope.  Goldman Sachs barely notices the pinch.  Congressman Eric Cantor does a “drive-by” view through tinted limo windows of his unfair jobless job fair, to boost PR curb appeal for corporate sponsors.  http://www.youtube.com/thereasonablevoice1.

As the early morning rain clouds gave way to the steam of a hot Glen Allen, Virginia July day, sun drenched job seekers lined up in high heels, wing-tips and sneakers.  On and on they came in suits and ties, cut off jeans, open collars, sports jackets and bright colored dresses.  At 9am for the 10 am event, tenured after a decade in office, by Congressman Eric Cantor, there was no sign of the one hundred companies who were supposed to be attending, and whose names were being passed out, to the more than three hundred people already standing in a determined line, which encircled a third of Deep Run High School.

At 10am cars of applicants now sat bumper to bumper, as there was no room in the school parking lot, but still they came, wave after wave, of every description, from every direction, across Twin Hickory Drive, seemingly advancing on the Job Fair like an invading army, not of dead beats looking for a hand out, or to beat the system, as the banter of Cantor friends accuse, but American men and women, of every age, shape, size, color, and no doubt, political persuasion, all lining up just for the opportunity to work for a living, and there was not a single  “ant”  among them.

At 11am hearing voices calling out, “Who’s RICK WAUGH,” I noticed a small group of signs held high declaring, “The Jobs Problem is Cantor.”  Though most approaching job seekers were too hurried to get to the end of the long rainbow line, to stop, some were curious about any alternative to the missing Republican incumbent.  It seems RICK WAUGH and his band of few, were there to encourage and express the concerns, dreams, and hopes for better times, for the unemployed and underemployed.

Some stopped on the way in, and on the way out to talk to the little known Democratic Candidate running for Congress in Virginia’s 7^th District, and all were looking for just one thing: jobs, to provide for their families.  In McDonnell’s Commonwealth, RICK WAUGH is definitely a David being looked down upon by Goliath Corporate Cantor Machine.

As an American, I’ve always felt so lucky and blessed and perhaps took a lot for granted, but I also felt a deep pride in what America stood for and what Americans are.  Today watching several hundred citizens make their way through fear of rejection and disappointment, with “Yes I Can” hope in their eyes and step, I knew even if the corporate sponsored Bush/Cheney years left us broke, “We the People” are far from broken, and we’re done with corporate window dressing!

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