It's been a while since I have personally written anything for this blog. The way new information is changing and updating so rapidly; I as a working class individual have had little time to sit and formulate my thoughts the way I would like. Besides, the information I have been posting was written by individuals with far more knowledge and skill than yours truly.
But I would like to take a moment to sit back; to pause, and have a "Come to Jesus" moment here regarding the Presidential Election that is less than 7 days away.
These are no doubt trying times in our country. Basically anything that could have gone wrong, is going wrong, and it is doing it all at once. People are struggling. I'm struggling, you may be struggling, many of our neighbors and relatives are struggling. In uncertain times the tendency in all of us is to look for help. To find a solution. However in an age where ideology is the cornerstone of our Main Stream Media and hard facts are a thing of the past, it becomes increasingly difficult to put our fingers on the source of the problem.
Capitalism is not the problem. Capitalism is what built this country into the superpower that it is today. Greedy individuals is what put us in this position. Greedy Capitalists, Stupid Consumers, and government officials who are in bead with both of them.
Politicians lie to us and put the blame on other parties, other companies; anyone but themselves. The media reinforces those lies, because the two have been in bed together for so long that for the media to suddenly report facts would be in essence, them admitting that they have been unrepentant whores for Washington all these years. Specifically they have been whores for the left wing agenda.
So naturally when we are faced with this current crisis of the economy, this crisis of the fabric of our society, we are on the lookout for the fix, the godsend. And the media presented him to us as Barak Obama, the Messiah, the patriarch of the middle class. The One. And it looks like we have bought the product, unseen, unproven, and without a warranty.
People don't think much for themselves anymore. They rely on the media to tell them their opinions. We watch a debate on television, and then we rely on the CNN pundits to tell us what was actually said. We get our information from headlines without actually reading the meat of the article. We are becoming a society of sheeple, a dumbed down culture that is spoon feed it's new set of progressive morals by a bunch of talking heads positioned on the bright box centered in every home in America. We don't think. We think we think, but we don't. We think that because we can recite the talking points of every campaign, we are well informed of the issues. We think that because we read the NYT or the Huffington Post that we are well informed; because we read, regardless of the one sidedness. And the more we are spoon-feed the misinformation, or the sterilized-approved-for-the-masses information, the more we alter our senses. The more we accept the idea that we are in fact victims of a capitalistic machine.
"Our faults are not our own, they were forced upon us by a vile CEO of some company. I did not get ahead in life because I didn't work hard enough, but because I was held back by another force that exists in a high rise building somewhere on Wall Street. It was not my fault that I declared bankruptcy because I couldn't pay my 100% mortgage with a piggy-back equity loan, or my 30,000 dollar credit card bills that I racked up buying my new big-screen tv, furniture, home entertainment gallor. It's not my fault, the bank offered me the credit, they said I could afford it, so if they said it, I must be able to. I didn't think I needed to read the contract I signed that said that my interest rate was adjustable so that my payments might actually go up. I didn't bother trying to correct my credit, or debt problems in the three window that I head before the rate changed so I could refinance into a fixed rate mortgage. Those details don't concern me."
Oh yes they do, had you been intelligent enough for analytical thought, you would have known that.
Just once I want to hear someone say that they support Obama even though he is a socialist. At least they admit that, and by admitting that they are showing that they are at least informed of the facts, and not some mindless couch potato who gets all of his "facts" from CBS news evening edition.
To all those who say that Obama is not a Socialist...you are stupid, and mindless, and deserve what you get because you were either to blind, to illiterate, or just to damn lazy to go out and get the facts for yourselves. To say that he is not a socialists only proves that you never even bothered to go out and learn what socialism is.
But don't worry, Obama likes lazy. In fact he will reward lazy with a monthly check from the state, posted directly into your government bank account so you won't even need to leave your couch and your TV to go cash it. And with a little luck...Obama thinks...You will teach your children to live the same way so that generation after generation will continue to be controlled and suppressed and spoon feed by the state. Because his goal is to take away the pain of having to try and succeed in an evil capitalists society, and replace said society with a Communist Utopia.
Oh the bliss.
This is not our grandparents America. Our grandparents worked for everything they had. Some of them get filthy rich, some of them didn't. But they never blamed anyone, they never demanded that someone who had more than they did, give them a peace of the pie. They excepted the fact that some people were just lucky, got a good break, they even celebrated for them. They did not try to regulate them to try and make it harder for the next guy to get ahead.
Not everyone is going to be monetarily rich. If that happened there would not be anyone left to do the manual work. But there are plenty of other forms of riches to experience in life, and we as Americans have forgotten most of them.
The richness of accomplishing a difficult task.
But I would like to take a moment to sit back; to pause, and have a "Come to Jesus" moment here regarding the Presidential Election that is less than 7 days away.
These are no doubt trying times in our country. Basically anything that could have gone wrong, is going wrong, and it is doing it all at once. People are struggling. I'm struggling, you may be struggling, many of our neighbors and relatives are struggling. In uncertain times the tendency in all of us is to look for help. To find a solution. However in an age where ideology is the cornerstone of our Main Stream Media and hard facts are a thing of the past, it becomes increasingly difficult to put our fingers on the source of the problem.
Capitalism is not the problem. Capitalism is what built this country into the superpower that it is today. Greedy individuals is what put us in this position. Greedy Capitalists, Stupid Consumers, and government officials who are in bead with both of them.
Politicians lie to us and put the blame on other parties, other companies; anyone but themselves. The media reinforces those lies, because the two have been in bed together for so long that for the media to suddenly report facts would be in essence, them admitting that they have been unrepentant whores for Washington all these years. Specifically they have been whores for the left wing agenda.
So naturally when we are faced with this current crisis of the economy, this crisis of the fabric of our society, we are on the lookout for the fix, the godsend. And the media presented him to us as Barak Obama, the Messiah, the patriarch of the middle class. The One. And it looks like we have bought the product, unseen, unproven, and without a warranty.
People don't think much for themselves anymore. They rely on the media to tell them their opinions. We watch a debate on television, and then we rely on the CNN pundits to tell us what was actually said. We get our information from headlines without actually reading the meat of the article. We are becoming a society of sheeple, a dumbed down culture that is spoon feed it's new set of progressive morals by a bunch of talking heads positioned on the bright box centered in every home in America. We don't think. We think we think, but we don't. We think that because we can recite the talking points of every campaign, we are well informed of the issues. We think that because we read the NYT or the Huffington Post that we are well informed; because we read, regardless of the one sidedness. And the more we are spoon-feed the misinformation, or the sterilized-approved-for-the-masses information, the more we alter our senses. The more we accept the idea that we are in fact victims of a capitalistic machine.
"Our faults are not our own, they were forced upon us by a vile CEO of some company. I did not get ahead in life because I didn't work hard enough, but because I was held back by another force that exists in a high rise building somewhere on Wall Street. It was not my fault that I declared bankruptcy because I couldn't pay my 100% mortgage with a piggy-back equity loan, or my 30,000 dollar credit card bills that I racked up buying my new big-screen tv, furniture, home entertainment gallor. It's not my fault, the bank offered me the credit, they said I could afford it, so if they said it, I must be able to. I didn't think I needed to read the contract I signed that said that my interest rate was adjustable so that my payments might actually go up. I didn't bother trying to correct my credit, or debt problems in the three window that I head before the rate changed so I could refinance into a fixed rate mortgage. Those details don't concern me."
Oh yes they do, had you been intelligent enough for analytical thought, you would have known that.
Just once I want to hear someone say that they support Obama even though he is a socialist. At least they admit that, and by admitting that they are showing that they are at least informed of the facts, and not some mindless couch potato who gets all of his "facts" from CBS news evening edition.
To all those who say that Obama is not a Socialist...you are stupid, and mindless, and deserve what you get because you were either to blind, to illiterate, or just to damn lazy to go out and get the facts for yourselves. To say that he is not a socialists only proves that you never even bothered to go out and learn what socialism is.
But don't worry, Obama likes lazy. In fact he will reward lazy with a monthly check from the state, posted directly into your government bank account so you won't even need to leave your couch and your TV to go cash it. And with a little luck...Obama thinks...You will teach your children to live the same way so that generation after generation will continue to be controlled and suppressed and spoon feed by the state. Because his goal is to take away the pain of having to try and succeed in an evil capitalists society, and replace said society with a Communist Utopia.
Oh the bliss.
This is not our grandparents America. Our grandparents worked for everything they had. Some of them get filthy rich, some of them didn't. But they never blamed anyone, they never demanded that someone who had more than they did, give them a peace of the pie. They excepted the fact that some people were just lucky, got a good break, they even celebrated for them. They did not try to regulate them to try and make it harder for the next guy to get ahead.
Not everyone is going to be monetarily rich. If that happened there would not be anyone left to do the manual work. But there are plenty of other forms of riches to experience in life, and we as Americans have forgotten most of them.
The richness of accomplishing a difficult task.
Planting flowers in your very own garden that you worked hard to get, even if it is only the size of a bathtub.
The richness of seeing your child finally take off on that two-wheel bike after months of skinned knees and broken side view mirrors from bike into car collisions.
The richness of that first dance recital, or that first soccer game that looks more like an ant colony attacking a half eaten apple.
The richness of teaching your children that there is no substitute for hard work, and the sense of accomplishment when they grow up and actively contribute to society.
Helping others less fortunate...seeing the smile on their faces when they receive a gift as simple as kindness.
Just being alive and healthy can be the richest feeling of all for many.
We need to stop and appreciate the everyday things around us. To pause for a moment or two and realize what are real priorities should be. How many problems from yesterday, today, and tomorrow would have been, could have been, solved, had we just remembered that?
Think about it...
The richness of seeing your child finally take off on that two-wheel bike after months of skinned knees and broken side view mirrors from bike into car collisions.
The richness of that first dance recital, or that first soccer game that looks more like an ant colony attacking a half eaten apple.
The richness of teaching your children that there is no substitute for hard work, and the sense of accomplishment when they grow up and actively contribute to society.
Helping others less fortunate...seeing the smile on their faces when they receive a gift as simple as kindness.
Just being alive and healthy can be the richest feeling of all for many.
We need to stop and appreciate the everyday things around us. To pause for a moment or two and realize what are real priorities should be. How many problems from yesterday, today, and tomorrow would have been, could have been, solved, had we just remembered that?
Think about it...
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