It has been a tough road for the American household.  The economy has been in a slump for many suns to moons.  Our network of finance has lost its fizzle over the course of these trials were enduring, but I'm here to testify that the ball can be picked up if we keep the focus within the battle.  The war can be won if we come to realize that we the people are the economy.  When we freeze,  the market is frozen.  Lets stop grabbing our wallets and locking our safes and make a conscience choice to keep the money flow alive by spending.  As the heart of America beats attention all shoppers spend, spend, spend at the nearest supermarkets, malls and apparel stores, etc....  Being in the money means we need key banking institutions and brokerage firms to be involved.  This is what the doctor orders utilizing hospitals, labs and clinics in order for this to happen.  Higher education is a must sending our future to the best colleges and universities across the States.  One must be proud to serve his or her country playing your part with government and military.  So lets keep it moving with our transportation infrastructures and travel to the next level of innovation in this new world we face.

Michelle Obama has taken it upon herself to battle childhood obesity in an attempt to save our future.  Obesity has been a problem for America for quite some time now.  So it's felt that enough is enough and Mrs. Boss Lady is putting forth the effort to dig up the root.  I just think that instead of focusing so much on group exercising and calorie reduction within meals the pillow talker with the First Man should bring a brighter knowledge of the other possibilities that place dangers of obesity on our society such as: the cloning of food and the hormonal injections that are practiced for the mass productions of major corporations.  Let's just say for entertainment purposes only if a child on the natural at the beginning of life normally eats untampered with food and puberty strikes this child at 14 years of age.  Isn't it possible that this cycle would be offset by the consumption of foods with hormonal boosts causing ones body to speed up the different processes that Mother Nature has created tilting the body out of whack be it bringing forth early periods in girls, obesity in most human beings, and sexual promiscuity etc.  Let's start seeing this issue for what is. Just a little food for thought.

What is family?  Is it the DNA pool your pulled from or is it a mind set of like thoughts from individuals from different walks of life but on the same path as you?  Lately I've begun to wonder.

After bidding farewell to 2010 many Americans are suffering from a severe hangover and this is not caused from drinking.  The economy managed to give a migraine to just about everyone.  This recession has placed a great depression on the pockets of low to middle class Americans with little relief.  I strongly used the words(Great Depression) because that's exactly what were living.  So when is the government going to begin issuing the anti-depressants?  Fact:  When the actual great depression took place we as a nation only had half the population and the unemployment percentage stood as it was.  Now present in the new millennium our population is doubled along with the unemployment rate.  Doesn't this mean we are along the same lines of consequence as our parents and grand alike?  I would say this is common sense but is sense really that common?

I'm in the darkest moments of my life screaming in the darkness searching for a beacon of light to guide me through.  Without the sun there possibly couldn't be.  I tilt my head back to the sky, looking for hope to reach out for me.  So I can rise like the Phoenix from the flame

The streets are talking and the whole prison population is whispering(staff and inmates) secrets are only held for so long until the wrong person finds out and then there released.  Each and every convicted criminal in California is in an uproar of some sort due to the facts of there committed crimes are making money for someone other than themselves.  Clearly crime is not suppose to pay but in California these are the stats when it does.  9.3% of California's 163,400 inmates are to be housed in private prisons in states like Michigan, Oklahoma and Arizona once the next rounds of transfers are completed in 2012.  3.2 billion is the combined revenue of the publicly traded companies GEO group and Corrections Corp of America, these two companies are the most dominant firms in corrections.  And lastly 31,500 will be the total of bids awarded in contracts by the state and federal agencies during the next 18 months.  What I would like to know as not as an inmate but as a human being how much of those funds are being given back to the cities, state and victims as restitution?

Across the globe there is many disasters taking place with little or no attention.  The world has become a very dark place with an abundance of frivolous idealism created by mere mortals designed of flesh.  The key word being "flesh" here.  The day we as a people begin to stabilize our existence in our own enormous influence, we've at that moment been lost in our own translation of life.  Every man, woman and child have been brought here for a real reason none of us created the system that designed us as a collective.  In conclusion on this highway we traveled stay within the speed limit definitely in your own lane and be courteous to the other drivers.  God Speed.

I've recently come to understand the true essence of love in some small minds life's as enclosed as the concrete cubicle in which I dwell where love is rarely felt.  But on a broader spectrum the inclined construes this emotion on a grander scale.  Possessing the knowledge of wisdom behind the balance of life one must hold a stable calm between the mentality the spirituality and physicality(The Trifecta).  In order to truly envision bliss in this fleshly form.  If you deviate from this simple script that's mandated you'll most definitely find yourself and your perception of reality warped.

Breaking news or rather unbreaking news:  This is how it goes when violence hits the world of the electric fence.  On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at Pelican State penitentiary 2 Hispanic inmates assaulted 3 custody staff as a result PSP was immediately placed on modified program.  Effective today, a statewide modified program impacting the southern Hispanic male inmate population (Sureno 13) has been initiated.  The Female institutions will resume normal programs as will camps and CCFs.  It is recognized at the reception centers and some dorm settings there is difficulty in validating segments of the Hispanic inmate population.  Wardens are directed to use conservative discretion and where appropriate modify the programs for all Hispanic inmates.  This does not preclude those inmates who are not Southern Hispanics from participating in the regular visiting program.  All Wardens are to update there visiting information, telephone lines to advise of the status of visiting during the modified program.  This PSR is in addition to all existing modified programs currently in operation.  This modified program will be reevaluated on Wednesday January 12, 2011.  Broad casted live from somewhere in the belly of California.

As the last shot echoed through the Arizona mountains, do we really believe that all's clear to come out and surface? (cause and effect)  This ride is far from over ladies and gentlemen, it is best advised to buckle up for the expected changes to surely come in the house of the lawmaker.  These changes will range from gun control to tougher security for all our nations representatives and there in between.  Clearly this was an unfortunate occurrence but what's not needed is to put an even greater wedge in the middle of our capital and civilian.  So please keep yourself involved and updated on whats to come, it's not my future, his or hers but ours together.....

The curious thing about a man in prison is why he has chosen to disrupt what is natural to the mass and live a lifestyle of criminality in underworld without change.  For a man who has opted to travel this dark journey, apparently he has lost his way in life.  So how is he found? Rehabilitation?  Whatever the case is it is for certain that these lost causes of broken men will eventually find there way back into society.  Everyday I study my surroundings and I live within the realm.  It the walking dead who live.  A a collective, our society full court presses our crime and punishment but lack in the angle of rehabilitation with the many men incarcerated.  It is a very small percentage who embraces rehabilitation.  Only the strong survive, well in this world(prison) only the strong connect with corrections.  We must immediately halt the pulling of funds from our children's education and recreation and funneling these currencies into human warehouses labeled penitentiaries.  This method truly creates a revolving door.  Where do you think our children turn to when the school's become overcrowded?  They become unseen or unheard and for that matter, when the recreations center closes the doors.  Whatever happened to prevention is better than a cure?  If we lost our path then lets salvage our present and save our future.

My condolences to every American whose has been affected by the heinous act in which transpired in Arizona.  Everyone is so angry these days.  It seems that we have become a nation that is losing hope.  Crimes of this magnitude take place only when hopes have been erased.  The line of hope must be drawn again.  It is a dire need for this country to possess hope.  We all need it from the haves to haves not.  It's understood if you pull the rug from underneath any man he is bound to fall.  Sadly in this case a single man chose as he was falling to reach out and grab the heard of America to break his fall in the most malicious way.  Today for me in this life lesson, I learned to be more selfless opposed to being selfish.....Pay it forward.   Hope Still Breathes.

As Arnold(The Terminator) Schwarzenegger exits the premises like the boss(a mob boss) he has managed to upset yet again the optimistic patrons of California.  During the final curtain call of his career before he took his bow he decides to terminate, but yet again this time it is a pre-made contract.  Signed off on by two consenting parties in front of a judge in a criminal case.  Sounds criminal to me, showing pure disregard for the legal system has seem to be an ongoing practice of Arnie throughout his term as Governor.  As he walks into the California sunset, smoking his customized stogie he intentionally flicks ashes all over the family of the deceased.  He showed no remorse towards the family whose loved one no longer has a voice in this matter, because Esteban Nunez managed to strip that right by taking Luis Santos' life in a very vicious crime.  My heart goes out to the Santos family.  Whose said life is priceless?  Apparently not Mr. Schwarzenegger because its clear if you know somebody who knows somebody then you'll be that somebody who's above and beyond the law designed for the simple body.

Greetings to whomever has taken the opportunity to crack open another chapter within this cyberworld.  My name is Demarie Mackey and I have elected to start this blog in order to extend myself to our free society.  For many different purposes but the main foundation that balances this blog is the insightful outlook of the evolved juvenile into man behind the concrete wall.  I am a 32 year old black man who has been incarcerated since the tender age of 17, in which was tried as an adult and sentenced to an oblivion of time in prison for a non-capital offense.  Given this tremendous error of such, one has managed to still persevere and although ones body has been bound and gagged the mind hasn't.  Now that I see life in a clearer focus and possess tunnel vision I feel it's my civic duty to contribute back to my society that I once stripped.  Under the circumstances I can only give words due to the situation, so in this blog I will be speaking on a range of topics from domestic, national and international standpoints in order to assist in giving a different point of view to the world from a man on pause with A Buried Mind.