The Cancer of America

It was one week ago from today that I found out that my grandmother has cancer. When I got the news an overwhelming feeling came over me and I immediately wept. In the middle of hundreds of students I couldn't even hold back the flowing tears or control my shaky voice while on the phone with my mother. In fact just typing this down on this keyboard, for me, is a battle in itself. But not near the battle that my grandmother with be facing as she fights to get rid of her deadly disease. Soon after I found out that right after she left the doctors office my grandmother went straight to work. After hearing this I was in absolute aw. How could you manage to pull yourself together enought to go back to work. Then it made me wonder and I came to the conclusion that she isn't just ignoring the fact that she has cancer, but that she wants to continue the life that she is living and won't let her cancer get in the way. In a sort of paradoxical way, I decided that I should blog about how America is like a healthy body and some corporations are like the cancer that weaken that body.

Since its establishment, America has become a growing body. America has become a world leader in trade and commerce, as well as establishing foreign aid and democracy. But as many bodies go through their development, they produce a few bad cells, or business. And as these bodies continue to develop, these bad cells continue to grow as well, until they are large enough to be considered a possible threat to the very life of the body, in the same way that these businesses begin to grow larger and larger, they reach the status of a corporation. These corporations begin to put a drain on the countries economy and weaken it until the country eventually collapses. These actions have proven to be very deadly as the large banks drained more and more money until the country couldn't hold up any more and America plunged into a great depression. Now it seems as if history is repeating itself in a new form of cancer. These corporations keep growing just as cancer is always spreading throughout the body, and it's giving nothing back. So now its time to fight back, to fight back against these deadly diseases that plague our body and go through treatments of therapy, and in terms of Americas economy pass new laws that give less power to these corporate giants and stand up for small businesses and give them the breaks that they deserve. These corporations have hurt our body of America for way to long and actions have to be taken now, with deep consideration of what might come if we do nothing. I just hope that action is taken soon, before its to late.