Forum Post: What we need is Abraham Lincoln

call me crazy but what seems to be the problem is that we have lost our way. There are a lot things that led up to the situation and it did not happen overnight. Anytime you have Corporate Greed team up with Good old fashion Consumer Greed you have to deal with the children that come from that relationship. Which amounts to nothing more than an immature adolescent that does not want to take accountability for their actions because all they learned was that having Cable, T.V. in every room, nice car, and go out when they want with out having to work for the things they had. The missing items in this issue is nothing more than personal accountability for the way we purchased. we bought too much, saved too little and our children will be ones to have to deal with the mess. All because we just wanted them to have it better than what we had it growing up. We missed something and our parents missed something in teaching us how to deal with money. The Financial system is not going to let us know methodology they used to make money... they keep us in the dark. Because in doing so they have power over us.

Lets Fix us while we are asking for the financial system and corporate system to get fixed by the government. We want a fix then lets demand of ourselves to fix ourselves first. We get their attention by taking away the very thing that they took away from us - the ability to control us.

We have become a product of what our parents have done and their parents before them. We have gotten so accustomed to having someone provide for us that all we are doing is waiting for that next fix (paycheck). And we live from paycheck to paycheck waiting for the next serving, and the next, and the next... Please sir may I have another.

Until we look inside and take control of how we manage our own stuff how can we ask for yet another hand out.

does this take away from those that have busted their ass to get where they got and lost it all. No! But the actions of the vast majority of us skew the view on those that need to have us rally up and really go to bat for them.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln