I'm getting real tired with the extreme individualism.

[Major Robert Dump]

I believe this nation borrows a billion dollars a day to operate.
Despite that, everyone still wants a piece,
Those who need to make sacrifice need to be someone besides me because (insert reason here)

The OP criticism of the guy is valid because the guy is really bitching for nothing. There is really no point to whine except to whine. Nothing will change,
Yet, the OP should also understand that they guy has every right to be concerned. Because nothing will change.


We are living on credit. There is no way out. Every day we spend loads of money and stupid crap like Cowboy Poetry Museums, Congressional Staff Banquets, etc. The President had a R&B show live from the White House LOL. We run the DOD through contracting methods that reward people to work as slowly and inefficiently as humanly possible. We stack state and federal agencies with dumb laws that take more people to enforce all for the sake of some vague political idea, like a "hate crimes" and and drug laws and farm subsidies and terrorism laws that consider harmless chlorine bombs as WMDs. It just goes on and on and on and on, I won't even get started in the financial sector laws. It's all just so retarded. So much of our economy revolves around accounting tricks and reorganization and financial sector fees. It's comical. We couldnt even do socialized medicine right with a single payer system and instead had to pass a huge amount of costs on to the employers, I mean WTF?

I recall someone on these boards once saying that the actual value of Americans and their assets still exceeds the national debt, which makes us okay. Don't recall who that was, but anymore that sounds like some real Greece-ey rationalization.

I think I said something like "we used to be an nation who could fist fight, and now we just pencil whip" to which ACIN responded that we are always developing new tech that will make us money and make life easier..... the problem with "new tech" is that tech streamlines, it puts people out of jobs, more jobs are always lost from the old tech than jobs gained for new tech, this is the way of evolution. I'm not saying that we should not go down that path, I am simply saying that in conjunction with everything else -- like the fact that we IMPORT everything because we need cheap stuff to support our fat ass way of life, and that a fifth of the nation is employed in the financial sector.

Unless we go to war with China and get reset to zero (which would really, honestly just make Washington do it all over again), or unless we discover the next oil, I simply do not see how we can continue down the same path without people getting screwed really, really, really bad at some point. I'm not being some doomsday guy and saying the nation is going to collapse into a pile of ashes, but at some point things are going to get real bad, real quick, for certain groups of people.

That is my pessimistic post for today. Carry on.