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davidmash · #10 04-16-2006, 04:41 PM

I feel that this countries biggest problem is that it lives for the here and now, not the future. The government spends now with no regard for who pays for it later. The people spend now with no forethought of how it will be paid for or what their future will hold. Look at consumer debt and spending trends. It’s pathetic. Uncle Sam just raised our debt ceiling to 9 trillion dollars. Does anyone here really believe the general public has the slightest idea what that means? Hell, they live their life the same the government conducts it’s life.

Look at the environment. People are debating the existence of global warming as if it does not really matter if they are wrong. The rub is this. Assume there is no global warming and humans have no impact on the climate. Fine, we spent all that money on emissions for nothing. OH well. Now, what if the scientists are right and we are approaching the point of no return. The point where mother earth says "OH well. You went to far and I cannot fix it." Then what? We just signed our death warrant because we do not worry about what our actions will do. I do not worry about winning the lottery. I worry about the bad crap that can happen to me on a daily basis. So if everyone won’t sign Kyoto we won’t do it either? If everyone won’t wear a seat belt neither will I? How stupid is that. How about we do our part for us? Maybe the other will follow suit.

No one looks at the root of the problem. They just stick their finger in the hole in the dyke and hope it works. Why not fix the damn dyke instead of putting a band aid on it which will not last. Sure, put up a wall on the US/MX border. That will fix it. Suuuuuuuuuuuureeeeeeeeee!!! Kind of like the new piracy soft ware Sony put on their DVD’s to prevent them from being copied. Hmmmm Wonder if they no about SlySoft? I guess the idea of finding out what is wrong in MX and helping them fix that problem is to simple and to far sighted. My guess is it will cost a hell of a lot less money to help them fix their problem than to try and seal a border that in all likelyhood will not work any way. And gee, if we help fix their country, maybe our wages and quality of life will go up as well.

Well, we need more prisons to hold all these criminals. We just keep getting more and more of these law breaking vermin. Build more prisons …… but not in my back yard please. Build it in the poor towns. They need the business. I guess the idea of providing an education system that provides the same opportunities to all. My idea is that the state gets all the education money. It gets divided up on a per student basis. The names of the students go into a pot. The names are picked as to what school your kid goes too with in a 20 or 30 (or what ever radius you decide). What do you want to bet that every kid will get a even shake? The kid in Beverly high will get the same education chances as the kids in South Central LA high. You give the kids an education they can get a good job and maybe raise a family and not be on the streets …. Blah blah blah.

Religion? Hell don’t get me started. You have these hammer heads who think they are being persecuted as christians here in the US. My mom and dad are german jews. They were in the camps in nazi Germany. I am pretty sure they christians in this country are not being persecuted. This country has more than christians in it. I must have missed the last jewish president we had. This country had a fit when a catholic ran for office. Give me a god damn break. You want the 10 commandments displayed. Put then in your house, your car. Hell you can tattoo then on your penis for all I care. I DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM IN PUBLIC!!!! Other wise I will put my pentagram and voodoo doll up right beside it. You don’t want an abortion? Fine. Don’t have one. My body, my decision. STAY THE F*&K OUT!!!!! Don’t like drugs. Fine Don’t smoke, don’t drink, do not shoot heroin, do not drop tabs. I like to have a shot of JD with my joint after I drop a few tabs and shoot a dose of heroin in my arm.

Anyway. I feel much better now. I’m at work and have some stuff that needs my attention. I’ll be back later.