Forum Post: When Nothing Else Matters
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 1, 2011, 11:09 a.m. EST by JesseHeffran
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A theme that resonates throughout the many sites
Is that the last thirty years have been obfuscated and are causing fights,
And even worst more some are loosing their rights.
Instead of the USA embracing the melting pot
We have become a bubbling caldron massive with wrought.
Information has become obscured and useless.
We have lost our voice and are becoming ruthless.
Time has been spent pandering and conspiring.
This has lead to less inventing and more perspiring.
Families groggily metastasizing into consumer units
Go their own way, chasing American affluence.
The mantic pace at which we have been exceeding
Seems trivial in comparison to the price we have been leading,
And the broken lives we have been seeing.
When two family members have to work three jobs each,
Time for play is far and seems always out of reach.
Time for exploring for truths seems at times
To be wasted time spent and nothing else rhymes.
When time that should be used for making amends
Is spent driving through and fro through highway bends,
Some must have to ask themselves where this all ends.
A barbarized fear of ever going back to the lot they were born,
Consumes those lucky few affluent citizens who scorn.
Competition has blinded our eyes
To those who have chosen to sit and will never rise.
As the economy screeches to a whimper,
Political brinkmanship is still found much simpler.
The political parties act like divorcing mother and father
And the children are turning on one or the other;
That is if they have not already ran much farther.
The once prized ascension up the economic ladder
Has the smartest and brightest saying it don’t matter.
Ah, I did not understand a word of that.
I think you are saying that people are working hard to try to support themselves but it is a very hard thing to do at the moment. And that people got to caught up in the rat race.
Am I sorta on track there?
I saw co-workers of mine, making less money then me at the time, buy McMansions while I kept my old and falling apart townhouse.
I was not jealous, but was amazed that every year they were re-financing their homes, getting tens of thousands of dollars every time they did it, and buying cars and vacations and pools and all kinds of fun toys.
I watched them destroy their financial lives all the while talking about how great it was.
Well there are several of those same people now, that really think the Federal Government, (i.e. We the People) should now help them out, since their income has fallen, their house price has fallen, selling the great vacations they wasted their borrowed money on can't be done, and they are losing, or have already lost their homes.
I do not feel sorry for them at all. Well personally I feel for the families, but they did it to themselves.
For all the talk of Bank Fraud, it was surpassed by the fraud done by, or in collusion with, the individual who somehow thought they too could cash in on the good life.
No - I don't feel for them. They did this in great measure to themselves.
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