Government Isn't The Problem - Its the People!

Don't blame the damn system! The system isn't the problem. Its the damn people! The system is created by the people. The government is run by the people. The people fuck the system up.

Don't take it from me, the weird email list guy. Take it from your famous comedian - Lewis "The Pontificator" Black

Government Isn't The Problem - Its the People!

The Great Seduction

Being in the debt industry I saw first hand the machines that are necessary to move around huge volumes of money spent on credit cards. It always amazed me to see people who were making well into the six figures writing off bad debt because they couldn't keep up with it. While there are very good ways to game the system, most people were at a loss to explain where all the money they spent went.

"Benjamin Franklin spread a practical gospel that emphasized hard work, temperance and frugality. Millions of parents, preachers, newspaper editors and teachers expounded the message. The result was quite remarkable.

The agents of destruction are many. State governments have played a role. They aggressively hawk their lottery products, which some people call a tax on stupidity. Twenty percent of Americans are frequent players, spending about $60 billion a year. The spending is starkly regressive. A household with income under $13,000 spends, on average, $645 a year on lottery tickets, about 9 percent of all income.

Congress and the White House have played a role. The nation's leaders have always had an incentive to shove costs for current promises onto the backs of future generations. It's only now become respectable to do so."

The most important role though, was played by you and I. Remember what you are exchanging when you buy a Starbucks or get that new car with the bells and whistles - you are exchanging your TIME for stuff. You are giving away your saved up existence - the only true thing that you own - in exchange for things that, most of the time, we truly don't need - we just want.

Maybe we should re-examine ourselves. Or maybe our consumer culture is correct...I don't know.

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Anyone can be struck by lightning,
But not everyone can conduct electricity!

Reality

I try to think along ideological lines. I think there is value to it. The excuses I give myself include:

1. There are a large number of people who don't think ideologically. There patterns aren't based upon any particular of thought (be they famous or not). They simply live day to day. Breath to breath.

2. The average of the all comes from many different parts moving in a general direction. When viewed from he ground we see amazing varience, from above, the herd I would guess. I am but one of many lines of thought. It is part of my duty to think how it is that I think...

3. There is purity in the universe. By purity, maybe I mean perfection. By perfection, maybe there is an idea that is constant. A constant could be thought of as a rule. A rule could be determined to be right or wrong. Ring and wrong could be defined as truth. Maybe I am hunting for my own sort of God. My own something to believe in. Maybe in all of that I am looking for a purpose. A purpose being defined as a place.

I am sure over time I will gain other rationlizations that convince me logically.

Of course, I begin to attack my own thoughts...

1. Who am I to define a pure logical thought? Maybe every single person in the world lives an ideological path that is truly independent of all others. And maybe everyone of us runs along a line that ties directly to something...sorta like "Who the fuck am I?" Maybe we never deviate from our own ideological paths. All decisions come from something.

::immediate thought in relation to that...we don't always act how we want to, we are always in a compromise, or being forced into action::



I try to act upon an ideological belief because I believe by injecting my little piece into the system I can push it toward a better result. There are plenty of realists and darwinists in the world. I guess there are plenty of idealists as well...

Welfare Kid

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