the end of this world is near everyone just know that...

I don't know where you are but maybe you should move to Texas.
It's really booming here. So much so that I'm beginning to believe this recession stuff is nothing but hype. I mean, sure we are in a housing slump but how do explain the following?
There are people lined up to enter BestBuy stores before they even open.
On weekends all the restaurants are so full you can't find parking and there's always a wait time.
Over priced Radio Shack is getting out of their slump and gas just started gettting cheaper.

This will continue until early next just in time for Obama to get credit so why are you complaining?

Why are we witnessing the biggest blockbuster movie of all time if things are really that bad?

Originally posted by kattraxx
In the immortal words of Jim Morrison, "They've got the guns, but we've got the numbers".... unfortunately, that was back in the 60's when people were awake and actually got up off their butts and did something.

Now there are over 300 million of us and most are asleep.

But God help the ruling class criminals if this population ever wakes up again. You'd probably have to pre-empt that lame dance show on television to do that though, or really start killing off their sons and daughters in an even bigger more useless (but oh so profitable) foreign war...

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[edit on 7/23/08 by kattraxx]

Dancing with the Stars !
Not as entertaining as NASCAR CHARIOT RACE AND UFC Gladiator Sports !

Just bag on on American Idol, but leave my male soap opera on ESPN alone. Forget Pat Tilman's mom on CSPAN, what is the latest with A-rod and Madonna, put that on CSPAN along with the roid hearings ?

Forget the flag draped caskets, the real American heros are presenters on the ESPY Awards !

When was last time you wanted an Autograph photo from a wounded soldier ?

little did you know that the democrats would spend more in the first month,than the repubs did in 8 years.

you got lied to face it....

oh,and obama forgot to end that costly war...oops!!!

[edit on 26-2-2009 by Spectre0o0]

i know this wont go down well but,

i read all these posts about how tough's everyones doing it and how they never complain and they earned what they have now; and i think thats great. that hard work is a good value and that if you worked hard you do deserve it.

but i cant help thinking its obscuring the real issue. we don't HAVE to live like this. It doesn't HAVE to be this tough. for the people in zimbabwe or the people struggling in america and working their butts off. there are enough resources in the world to go around and to feed everyone. there is enough land. (although we do need to regulate and limit our population growth). No one on earth NEEDS to be or SHOULD be poor or hungry or overworked or struggling. Everyone has been enslaved to money and doesnt realize it.

the problem with this planet is the governing structures it has. and the leaders. you look around and say, there will always be injustice; there will always be someone richer than me and someone poorer than me. I have no pity on the poor because i was poor and i overcame it and look what i have now. i deserve it. But do children deserve to be starving to death in africa? do children deserve to grow up in slums in india or to not have enough money for food or clothes in america?

the real problem with everyone on this planet; and the real thing that no one takes responsibilty for, is our leaders. and our government. We could all have a government and set of leaders who did the right thing; who distributed the countries' resources fairly and gave everyone a piece of land on which to grow food (and everyone should have to grow at least a vegetable garden and some of their own food to be self sufficient); and if some people were doing jobs where they had no time for anyone in the family to garden etc, the the state provides food.... why do we allow some people to be billionaires while others starve? just because we think they are smarter than everyone else? Bill gates may be smarter, but he's not worth billions of dollars when children are starving. Hes not worth more than someone's mother on a pension. Even though he gives away a lot, he still has a lot; and so do all the other billionaires on the planet.

This money should be spread around more fairly. Because none of us should be able to sleep if ONE child on this planet is starving to death while the rest of us try to lose weight. It is OUR responsibilty to fix this. and DEMAND that wealth is distributed properly. To LIMIT how much goods and property one person can accumulate and to apply these limits also to our LEADERS.

we're all one really. this economic crisis just proves it. if a few people have all the money, EVERYONE will suffer. And it wont matter how hard you worked during your life or how much money you saved, when some bigger fish comes to take it away. And maybe they worked hard too. Who cares? I don't. Because everyone- every single child- deserves the basic necessities of life. and no one should be able to accumulate goods and property at the expense of another human being's or child's need for basic necessities.

If we dont put caps on what the rich can have, and spread things around more fairly, then our greed will destroy us all - including the rich (who as that guy said, are fed by the farmers). And if we destroy our environment through our greed for more resources than we need, then we'll all fall together too..

in my opinion, anyway.