It's a big-selling candy bar. Although it tastes wonderfully good, this bar doesn't satisfy. It makes you hungrier and saps nutrition from your wallet. Don't complain if you're starving.
Our economy is wobbly, gas, food and many other commodities are becoming very expensive, mortgage defaults and foreclosings abound. We're up to our necks in credit we can't afford to pay off. Whose fault is it? Ours. It's as much the fault of the credit industries as it is of those who receive credit, perhaps more fault should be placed on the industry for enticing us to borrow and making it too easy. These devils tempt us. How many credit card applications do you get every week? Can you even pay off one? It would appear that the industry doesn't care how much debt you incurr as long as they can get the interest payment and keep you on the credit merry-go-round for life. And the industry had the bankruptcy laws changed a few years ago to make it much harder to file for bankruptcy.
Primarily, I blame the credit industry for the problems we're facing now. If they had acted responsibly, they wouldn't have offered easy credit and the economy wouldn't have grown so fast; many of us wouldn't have been able to spend irresponsibly. If the lending industry wants payback it should be willing to sacrifice some of its earnings, share the loss with us, if not, they should be terminated with extreme prejudice and the funds owed them written off - a mass bankruptcy amnesty.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
We, Like Sheep, Have Gone Astray
We have become a nation of sheep. The shepherd is insane. When will he lead us off the cliff? We have lost many of our constitutional rights and don't seem to care. Our ideals of individual freedom, political equality and fairness toward each other have been perverted or ignored. America is slipping down the tubes.
We are living out of unfounded fear that has been manipulated by our government for its nefarious reasons – to protect officials for treasonous crimes, for power to commit any act. It has no respect for us, the people.
We have allowed the Bush administration and Congress to pass laws that are clearly unconstitutional. All of the domestic surveillance laws, the Patriot Act, founding Homeland Security, FBI security letters, the growth of secrecy and closing government access to us are violations of our freedom and do not protect us. We weren't asked if we wanted them. The President asserts a probable unconstitutional Executive Privilege and the use of signing statements to ignore laws passed by Congress. If the courts and justice system don't oppose these laws it only proves that they are corrupt or afraid of opposing the administration. They have been politicized to the detriment of us all. Why do we allow this? Why aren't we so screaming mad to rip the administration out of the White House by our bare hands for a violation of our rights that amounts to mass rape? I don't advise violence, but a legal impeachment process seems in order to get at the facts. We seem to be afraid to exercise this right.
This administration has only a corporate and imperial mentality – to promote the interests of powerful corporations to rule the country and the world. It has no clear conception of freedom or democratic values. It is corrupt, but we allow this corruption. What does that say about us? We have given corporations far too much power over our society to use us as fodder at our expense, their gain. Privatization has been fostered to empower special interests and destroy the public sphere that every society needs to be a functional for everyone. We are being split away from the social body and pitted against each other. We are no longer one society. We can't blame immigration and diversity for this condition because we have always been a nation of diverse immigrants who learned to live together while pursuing our individual dreams. There is no valid scapegoat for this situation; the blame rests squarely on us.
The President has the lowest popularity of any president in history, which strongly suggests that we don't trust him, but we still allow him to keep his office. This does not compute. How can we do this unless we are insane? Or have we simply given up all ideals of humanity, hope and wait only for the apocalypse? Whatever the reason, we are a sick nation.
The war on terrorism is overblown. The motives underlying it are questionable. Ultimately, it was our meddling policies that led to the resurgence of terrorism in the Middle East. Read some history. On top of that, there are too many loose ends from the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center catastrophe that should make us call the official reports into question. Something is fishy here – it just doesn't ad up. We have acquiesced to the government's report. Why? Only each one of you can answer that.
We live with an insane war in Iraq that has sapped our nation of its power in the world and has hurt our society in many other ways. Our economy is sinking. Our public infrastructure is crumbling. The rising prices of every necessity can be traced to war spending, estimated at $3.3 trillion, most of which has been borrowed, making us the world's greatest debtor nation. How long will it be before we are suffering as much as the people of Iraq?
Aggravating this condition, the problems of climate change are the gravest situation we face. Our lives cannot continue as we are living them now. Continuous population growth and increasing wants for more products only exacerbates these problems. Our resources are running out. I think I am seeing the human race slowly commit suicide.
Add all these problems up and it might appear that this administration is trying to destroy America. Who or what is being sacrificed and for what reasons?
There are things that a civil society should do for itself to foster well-being and the common good. We need to find better ways to care for ourselves that will make our nation stronger and a better place to live. Improving the lives of individuals is the way to improve society by unleashing the power of healthy, individual minds and bodies toward solving social problems. We need universal medical coverage, rethinking agriculture so that food may be supplied to everyone, new ways of providing homes so that no one would be homeless unless they want to be; these are only a few of the things we could do if it weren't for the current political climate. The capitalistic profit motive can't be the highest ideal because it pits narrow private interests against the common good, leaving many people out, causing many people to suffer, essentially weakening society. How do we turn this around?
We are living out of unfounded fear that has been manipulated by our government for its nefarious reasons – to protect officials for treasonous crimes, for power to commit any act. It has no respect for us, the people.
We have allowed the Bush administration and Congress to pass laws that are clearly unconstitutional. All of the domestic surveillance laws, the Patriot Act, founding Homeland Security, FBI security letters, the growth of secrecy and closing government access to us are violations of our freedom and do not protect us. We weren't asked if we wanted them. The President asserts a probable unconstitutional Executive Privilege and the use of signing statements to ignore laws passed by Congress. If the courts and justice system don't oppose these laws it only proves that they are corrupt or afraid of opposing the administration. They have been politicized to the detriment of us all. Why do we allow this? Why aren't we so screaming mad to rip the administration out of the White House by our bare hands for a violation of our rights that amounts to mass rape? I don't advise violence, but a legal impeachment process seems in order to get at the facts. We seem to be afraid to exercise this right.
This administration has only a corporate and imperial mentality – to promote the interests of powerful corporations to rule the country and the world. It has no clear conception of freedom or democratic values. It is corrupt, but we allow this corruption. What does that say about us? We have given corporations far too much power over our society to use us as fodder at our expense, their gain. Privatization has been fostered to empower special interests and destroy the public sphere that every society needs to be a functional for everyone. We are being split away from the social body and pitted against each other. We are no longer one society. We can't blame immigration and diversity for this condition because we have always been a nation of diverse immigrants who learned to live together while pursuing our individual dreams. There is no valid scapegoat for this situation; the blame rests squarely on us.
The President has the lowest popularity of any president in history, which strongly suggests that we don't trust him, but we still allow him to keep his office. This does not compute. How can we do this unless we are insane? Or have we simply given up all ideals of humanity, hope and wait only for the apocalypse? Whatever the reason, we are a sick nation.
The war on terrorism is overblown. The motives underlying it are questionable. Ultimately, it was our meddling policies that led to the resurgence of terrorism in the Middle East. Read some history. On top of that, there are too many loose ends from the 9/11/2001 World Trade Center catastrophe that should make us call the official reports into question. Something is fishy here – it just doesn't ad up. We have acquiesced to the government's report. Why? Only each one of you can answer that.
We live with an insane war in Iraq that has sapped our nation of its power in the world and has hurt our society in many other ways. Our economy is sinking. Our public infrastructure is crumbling. The rising prices of every necessity can be traced to war spending, estimated at $3.3 trillion, most of which has been borrowed, making us the world's greatest debtor nation. How long will it be before we are suffering as much as the people of Iraq?
Aggravating this condition, the problems of climate change are the gravest situation we face. Our lives cannot continue as we are living them now. Continuous population growth and increasing wants for more products only exacerbates these problems. Our resources are running out. I think I am seeing the human race slowly commit suicide.
Add all these problems up and it might appear that this administration is trying to destroy America. Who or what is being sacrificed and for what reasons?
There are things that a civil society should do for itself to foster well-being and the common good. We need to find better ways to care for ourselves that will make our nation stronger and a better place to live. Improving the lives of individuals is the way to improve society by unleashing the power of healthy, individual minds and bodies toward solving social problems. We need universal medical coverage, rethinking agriculture so that food may be supplied to everyone, new ways of providing homes so that no one would be homeless unless they want to be; these are only a few of the things we could do if it weren't for the current political climate. The capitalistic profit motive can't be the highest ideal because it pits narrow private interests against the common good, leaving many people out, causing many people to suffer, essentially weakening society. How do we turn this around?
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