Let's abolish fund raisers

Tradition mandates that we honor the wealthy, the kings, queens, business magnates, doctors, and administrators who control the world around us. You know who they are, the people who live in mansions, who wear single outfits that cost more than an average family's grocery budget for a week.  As Tevya, from Fiddler On The Roof, says, "If you're rich they think you really know!"

The idea that nobles will care lovingly and compassionately for their serfs is perpetrated by the wealthy to preserve their life style.  Only many nobles are not so noble.

They hold the sick hostage, refusing them medicine and care in return for the money that feathers their nests.  They organize huge systems designed to keep the common man from reaping the benefit of his own work.  They rely on our ignorant acceptance of their high handed mistreatment of good people who simply want to work hard for a decent living.

But do not give up!  There are people in this country who are taking back the right to work for decent wages in decent conditions.  A mayor in Richmond, California is organizing a system that allows people to keep the homes they have been working and paying for.  A free clinic, staffed by caring professionals in Bloomington, Illinois exists solely for the purpose of caring for the sick.  Workers in Chicago bought the company that was mistreating them and turned it into a viable business.

One step at a time, good, hard working people, are proving they are not less important, less valuable, less human than those who like to think they are above us all.  Rather than the token child saved by a great fund raiser, isn't it time that all people have access to the same services available right now, but only to the very rich?