While everyone is complaining about the billions; and sometimes trillions of dollars 'big oil' companies are pocketing after expeditures every ninety days, no one is batting an eye at the millions of dollars being generated by our incumbent President and the Republicans during the past 3 months.
Rick Perry = $18 million -- Mit Romney = (est) between $13-$18 million, Ron Paul (my boy) raised (est) $8 million, and my President raised $55 million - ALL DURING THE LAST 90 DAYS!!!! And these numbers are around the same as the PREVIOUS 3 month period. Of course the grand total in the coffers are much, much more than this. Now this is for a job, a job in power and prestige in which you can't really put a price tag on mind you, but a position that earns a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 non-taxable travel account and $19,000 for entertainment. (Wikipedia)
This is another example of the OBVIOUS irregularities being overlooked and "shell games" continuing politically all around us. Before last year's elections, the Democrats had a super majority AND the Presidency - basically able to do what they wanted when they wanted to- and yet, didn't do a thing. All the while appearing on TV and radio calling the Republican Party the "party of no" when the Republicans were impotent to do anything but filibuster. Same thing with the Republicans when "W" came to power. People just dismiss these things as "it's always been, it always will be - nothing we can do" and the like. They get together on talk radio or TV preaching and agreeing with each other to decry the way things are - yet nothing ever changes.Know-it-all talk show hosts say they don't want to take the pay cut or that they can do more where they're at speaking to thousands or millions. What if a few of our founding fathers thought this way? What if Ben Franklin or James Madison decided "Aw, to heck with creating and signing the constitution, I'm going to serve my country by hekping locally or teaching at a university instead of forging a new republic."
I understand I'm beginning to sound like one of those conspiracy-at-every-corner nut jobs. Truly, I want ot believe that even though we (America), seemingly at our lowest, are better than this. History doesn't bear me out on this. We're doing the same old things; making the same old mistakes. Am I wrong? In the future when we sit back and tell each other "See, I TOLD ya. I PREDICITED this would happen!", what then? What good is it to always be the one who predicts things to come, yet does nothing to affect the outcome or change?
BTW RIP Steve Jobs - regardless of what he became, he is an example of what can be done forming beginning a business in his parent's garage with little or no money
Not meaning to sound like ‘chicken little’, but at the very least, SOMETHING is up with the sky. Regardless of whether it’s the affect from a 24 / 7 news cycle or overwhelming negativity in all media, there’s no doubt something is happening. No matter how I or YOU or people we know, love, and are acquainted with personally are doing, things on a whole are getting tough. Call it what you will; “just the ways things are”, the much predicted “end of times” or “last days”. Be it the 2012 issue (which current Mayan ancestors are repeatedly saying does not necessarily mean the end of the world) or the global/ domestic economies, new self destructive drug crazes (‘bath salts’), or the nearly everyday stories about child death and abuse, life as we know it is rapidly changing.
We’re now a world where there’s a huge outcry over humorous, smart-alecky t-shirts for kids reading “Too Beautiful for Homework” or “Allergic to Math” and these shirts are immediately removed from the store shelves.
For years we’ve been fed marketing and products high in “antioxidants” when there’s no real study or value as to the benefits of these ‘antioxidants’ to we humans; the only long term or real studies have been in rats and other animals. Look for a study; ANY study on antioxidants and their effect on humans.
The political machine seems destined to keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Lies and flip flops, long staples of politics, are much more obvious and evident then they were in the past; yet are dismissed or looked over. Often, it’s a kind of ‘slight of hand’ that occurs. Regardless of which political jersey (Democrat/Republican, left/right, liberal/conservative) you wear.
The “prepare for disaster/survival gear” market has also exploded. More and more people are purchasing durable foods, equipment, weapons, storage lockers, etc from websites like preparewise.com, foodinsurance.com. I honestly don’t knock anyone who chooses to participate or prepare. If anything, these things will be handy in any type of temporary or long term emergency or inconvenience. Even I have some supplies stashed away for my wife, dogs and me in case we’re without power or water for a few days. The Travel Channel recently aired a program where for between $450k to $950k per person, you can be a part of a doomsday community where food, lodging, etc would be waiting for you in the event of cataclysm, 2012, whatever. I suppose I’d just have to perish when the robot warlords take over.
I can’t help but to feel like I’m being conned or scammed when I see and hear all these commercials beckoning me to buy or invest in gold or silver to ‘shore up my financial portfolio’. To me the pitchmen and/or women seem like car sales people to me. I feel like I’m being “set up”. Kind of like those commercials for online, do-it-yourself trading. Which I’ve done before back when I was first married. So the mystery and spell about them is a little less cloudy to me than these ‘gold n silver’ guys. Though investing in these and other precious metals isn’t a bad thing in my opinion. In the event of a survival doomsday, the ATM’s, water and power grids, any computer run anything will be rendered useless thanks to the EMP’s (electromagnetic pulse). Either EMP’s or whatever CERN creates or opens the door to. FTL my @$$!!! (Google CERN if ya don’t’ know what it is).
Personally, I have faith that while things can and probably will get worse before they get better, me and mine will do the best we can do and get by the best we can. I remember when I had to grow up a little earlier than others my age did and all the things I thought would be impossible to do or accomplish given my state of being at the time. I was then and am certainly now no one special. I didn’t have it no where NEAR as bad as many in the past, present, or future. I just have faith in myself and God. When the world ends and nothing’s left, that’s all we really have anyway whether you believe in a deity or not.
BTW- Michael Jackson is dead, Amanda Knox is at home, bath salts are THE SHIZZLE, now I can't buy lettuce again thanks to the latest recall- THANKS!I still want either a PS3 orXbox, and Kim Kardashian is kinda cute…. That’s CODE for the uninitiated…
