Land of the Free, Home of the self-entitled...

I sold my car the other day to a fifty something year old woman. After procuring her loan and passing the cashiers check ("free money") over to me she promptly told me:

"The American dream now isn't about owning your own home or car; it's about making enough money so you can purchase it on credit. You'll be very lucky, young man, to get through life without debt. We're a nation of consumers, but we don't really produce anything of much value. All we have is our purchasing power. It can't last that much longer if you think about it. I'm glad I won't be here much longer, relatively speaking."

I'm glad I've never had much of a greedy soul, at least in terms of acquiring excessive amounts of material possessions. Then again, I grew up in Nebraska, which is a microcosm all its own.

Unfortunately, the mentality that's eating us alive from the inside is spreading like a disease courtesy of Hollywood! I laughed my ass off to the point of almost puking when I saw that one of the families on Extreme Makeover Home Edition put up a 450,000 loan on a home that they otherwise couldn't afford in their wildest dreams without the help of the dream machine. Well, I'm sorry to say that's why they couldn't afford to buy a house in the first place-they're dumb, lazy, undereducated, overweight, self-entitled, greedy, All-American fat asses.

And who in their good conscience would allow that family to take the loan out in the first place? Never-mind, I didn't ask that question.


One thing that's exactly same about the real America and Hollywood is that they're both built on make-believe. Or maybe credit? At any rate people are going to have to pay their bills at some point, one way or the other, sooner or later.