I'm sitting here on a Sunday night with a plate full of collate chip cookies and I was like I should watch a movie. I have been waiting on watching The Purge because I knew it was kind of dark and who wants to be in that mindset on a day when you have other things to do. So why not a Sunday night?
Well I knew the premise going in and I have thought about it a lot since the first trailer arrived. I was wondering if this type of thing could really happen. For those of you who don't know the premise, here it is. The year is 2022 and at some point between now and then the American people voted to allow for 12 hours a year where all crime is legal, even murder. It is said all crime and poverty dropped to 1% and the economy had never been so strong. The movie is set up like a social commentary on the way that the rich see the poor. There are news reports that flash during the first half hour of the movie that states that during the purge nights only the sick and poor die because they can't defend themselves.
When this is said I was thinking that I know a lot of rich people kind of feel this way. Not that they want them to die or anything but they do feel that the working poor and other types of poor are a drain on society and the economy and it would be better if we could just take them off of things like welfare and food-stamps and affordable health care. In feeling that way you are basically saying that you want them to not be able to survive. Sure I agree that some of those systems are broken and dole out too much "free" money to people who just abuse it more and more but it also helps a lot of people who are responsible. Working single parents can't always do it on their own and government assistance is needed and it is good that we do have a government that cares but it shouldn't be about money. It should always be about the people the money is helping. We are in debt for a lot of reasons but one of those reasons is our military. Do you think the average person would rather have troops in other countries fighting a ware we have nothing to do with instead of using the money to help sick and poor in our own country? I think that is an easy question to answer. If after reading that you say that I am anti-America because I don't love the military I assure you I like what they are there for but it is also a group of people who volunteer to be part of. We waste so much resources on building better guns and bombs instead of finding cures and making them affordable.
I'm going to get back to my cookies and movie about violence now but I am go
Well I knew the premise going in and I have thought about it a lot since the first trailer arrived. I was wondering if this type of thing could really happen. For those of you who don't know the premise, here it is. The year is 2022 and at some point between now and then the American people voted to allow for 12 hours a year where all crime is legal, even murder. It is said all crime and poverty dropped to 1% and the economy had never been so strong. The movie is set up like a social commentary on the way that the rich see the poor. There are news reports that flash during the first half hour of the movie that states that during the purge nights only the sick and poor die because they can't defend themselves.
When this is said I was thinking that I know a lot of rich people kind of feel this way. Not that they want them to die or anything but they do feel that the working poor and other types of poor are a drain on society and the economy and it would be better if we could just take them off of things like welfare and food-stamps and affordable health care. In feeling that way you are basically saying that you want them to not be able to survive. Sure I agree that some of those systems are broken and dole out too much "free" money to people who just abuse it more and more but it also helps a lot of people who are responsible. Working single parents can't always do it on their own and government assistance is needed and it is good that we do have a government that cares but it shouldn't be about money. It should always be about the people the money is helping. We are in debt for a lot of reasons but one of those reasons is our military. Do you think the average person would rather have troops in other countries fighting a ware we have nothing to do with instead of using the money to help sick and poor in our own country? I think that is an easy question to answer. If after reading that you say that I am anti-America because I don't love the military I assure you I like what they are there for but it is also a group of people who volunteer to be part of. We waste so much resources on building better guns and bombs instead of finding cures and making them affordable.
I'm going to get back to my cookies and movie about violence now but I am go