Two-Step forward, one-step back...

I saw an interesting self-made billboard on the way up to Seattle from Portland yesterday. It read:
"WE CAN'T SPEND OR TAX YOUR WAY TO WEALTH."

Good luck, America. We'll need it.

He has overcome! You haven't done shit!

Okay, yeah. But what about you?
And when are the rest of us going to "change"?
Oh yeah, he's going to do it all for us.

By-the-way, I'm happy that Obama won. I'm just sick of everyone acting like we just saved the world or won WWIII or something. Nothing has changed and he hasn't really done anything yet aside from talk a good game.


I'll chill the fuck out when people actually change, not one man.

BTW:

Who is the person being described here?

Like all powerful speakers ______ greatest asset was his ability to determine what listeners wanted to hear and give it to them in simple language that appealed to them on an almost instinctual level.

"He was very charismatic, very charismatic," said________

"He appealed to anyone on any level at any time."

________ mastery of word and presentation left few in attendance with any doubts about his abilities.

Nope, it's not Barack Obama. It's Jim Jones -- another great public speaker. Not to say that Barack is a maniac; I'm just saying that all Barack has done so far is give us a bunch of powerful words and charismatic speeches. He seduced us like a poor good-looking guy would a down on her luck fat girl who needed some loving. I hope he meant what he said, and wasn't smooth talking us to get what he wanted. I hope he doesn't break our hearts.

PEOPLE NEED TO CHANGE BEFORE THE WORLD WILL CHANGE.

And I thought L.A. smog was bad...

Ah, progress. And all we need to do to boost the world economy is to keep expanding the economy. I hope that cutting America's addiction to foreign oil by 50% will be able to stop the rest of the world's addiction to it. Not to mention, I hope the emerging "green-economy" will provide enough extremely low-skilled, high-paying jobs to the exponentially growing population of unemployed, fat, lazy, self-entitled, rude, under-educated, over-violent Americans who need jobs.

I've hoped a lot of things in my life, and I've found that it doesn't often float or lead to change. It just leads to broken hearts. Good luck, America. We'll need it, along with the rest of the world. A miracle would be nice too.

Celebrity Rehab: The Cure...

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I'm sorry to say, but this says it all about America...

FEAR MONGERING McCain says:

"America's enemies won't test me, but they might test Obama."

Sounds like more of the same to me, W, I mean John.

Well, here's what I fear the most McPain:

"To teach or to kill people? That is the question."

That’s what’s riding on this election for me and many other Americans. If Obama is elected he claims that he will hire “an army of teachers”. McCain on the other-hand claims he will cut spending for everything not related to the military, which kind of sounds like a military state if you ask me. I don’t know why anyone hasn’t brought this point up yet? Anyways, if McCain is elected and cuts all funding for essential services that will in-turn force millions of Americans to join the military simply out of economic necessity. He won’t have to reinstate the draft because the only jobs out there will be military related. Again, it sounds like he wants to turn a free-country into a military state. Of course, we could always start plundering other countries to boost our ailing economy. That’s what I call old-school experience, medieval even, not maverick. So please, take my moral dilemma into account when you cast your vote next week. Even though if McCain is elected it won't be a moral dilemma, it will be something I'm forced to do one way or the other. Let freedom reign!

McCain also had the nerve to flatly say, "I won't raise taxes on anybody" in response to Obama’s tax plan. Please, how many times have we heard a Republican say “no new taxes” only to see them raise taxes?

What happened to the personal responsibility Republicans love to tout?

"Homeowners are the innocent bystanders in a drive-by shooting by Wall Street and Washington," Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday.

Not to mention, what happened to the fundamental value shift that McCain has been touting concerning "Country First"? It sounds like McCain is sacrificing even more of his "values" just to get the votes of people who are just as much to blame for the American greed (Dream) game falling apart as the Wall Street guys, the federal government, and the banks. I'm sorry, but people need to take financial responsibility for their own investments, futures etc., rather than doing whatever it takes to keep up with the Hollywood Joneses. If the person taking out the loan can't figure out that he can't afford the loan (or can but doesn't care just so long as he can get the hot car/house to show of to his lost dream chasing friends) then it's just as much their fault as the person giving them the loan.

I remember a time when I used to work for MINI that I sold a guy a 20,000 dollar car for 50,000 dollars just so he could drive it off the lot that day. There's no way the guy could afford it being that he was backwards on his trade-in. Not to mention, the guy didn't make that much money. But he wanted it "soooo bad". Sad thing is he just had a kid and was talking to me about how he needed to start a college fund for his newborn. However, he just "had to have this car and was willing to do anything to get it". So I worked out a monthly payment plan that he could afford. Thing was that by the time it was paid off it would cost him 50 Gs. He was so happy to have gotten his hot car that he didn't even do the math to see how much the car would cost him by the time he paid the car off. Lucky me, I ended up getting a sweet commission for the deal. I'm not proud of what I did, but a lot of people were caught up in riding the "something for nothing" gravy train at the time.

People (everyone in this country) need to start taking responsibility for this gigantic All-American fuck-up of a country that we've all helped create with our backwards "Bigger is better, Hollywood mentality". After-all, this is a democracy. Therefore, we're all in it together and all responsible to some degree in terms of where this country is and where it's going.

Get your shit together, America. This whole mess is highlighting the pathetic, self-serving, childish nature of the American mentality.