i've had half a dozen <br />or more sets of people <br />come in today talking <br />about going back to a <br />more self-sufficient <br />lifestyle... <br />people paying off their <br />accounts, not making purchases. <br />people buying pigs, chickens, <br />goats... going to plant <br />big gardens. <br />this has been going on for <br />the last month ot two. <br /> <br />people watching the gas situation, <br />the rise of food prices.. sky <br />high electric bills... <br /> <br />young people moving back in <br />with their families... old <br />people going back to old ways. <br /> <br />we are not as blind as our <br />government would like to believe. <br />lies and illusions wont cut <br />it anymore. <br /> <br />too much debt, too much corruption, <br />too much greed... and they try <br />to silence anyone who raises a <br />voice in opposition. <br /> <br />things have to change. it cannot <br />go on the way it is. the only <br />hope we have is to become less <br />dependent on government, on the <br />choices of the elite, on society... <br /> <br />let our dependence be in our families, <br />in ourselves, and in each other. <br />forget about wants, and meet needs. <br /> <br />to change...<br /><br />Eric Cockrell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-change/