Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Ickonomy

I see a lotta crap each day on the job. I see bums drinkin and pissin in the streets and kids stealin and vandalisin. I see mothesr and yellin at theire young ones and fathers who dont care nothing fbout there familys. I see a lotta shit. Its my job to keep things as safe as I can for everyone. The good and the bad. This economy is creatin more bad though. Crime is up in the city. Not all tipes but a lot.

I been workin my butt off since I got back from the mid east and every one I busts got some excuse. My daddy aint home n more (and so youve started smokin crack). I lost my job and I need to feed my family (yeah, thats why you stole that plazma screen tv). I got 5 mouths to feed (so its okay for you to smakc the hell out of em on line at Ctown). I hear em all.  The reason I'm sayin this is becase I want people to realize that crime is 99% of a time a choice not an ultymatem. Theres a lotta good people out there who are suffren and they havent committed any crimws. History is filled with them. Eveyrone goes thorugh tuff times. Its people of qauality who hunker down and fight through em that matter. This economy is tough on people all over. Its no excuse to brake the law.

Im jabberin because I no some of these people. An I hear theyre not gettin hired cause they been outta "work" for a while. Guys with familys who do what they can to get by. Guys like Jimbo, the fella that runs this blog I writght on (obiviously not to well). He works on a coupla blogs and takes care of other peoples kids. How many guys uyou no do THAT? And he just tolld me hes now volunteerin at his lokel tv station. He also busts his butt to take care of his pregnint wife--makin her 2 breakfsast and lunch each morngin before she goes to work. An he even sweitched to decaf cofee with her. Even I coulndnt do THAT. I like my mud strong and black. Like my women! Actually I like my women in all colors--although I aint getting much of any women lately. Hey, its tough for a guy like me. I got more ex-wives than I got toes on my left foot (thank you very much honda lawn mower) and more kids that want nothin to do with me than I got kids who DO. Not many dames wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. A burnt out, 50 something cop whose seen it all and has the early stages of glaucaoma to prove it. Not that glaucomao is caused by seeing bad shit.

Anyway, what Im tryin to say is yeah the economy is bad.  There are good people out there who need jobs. They shuooulnt be judged on their lack of employment. They may not be employed full time but Theyre out there doin good things still. An they dont disserve to be ignored.

--Gristle out