I'm Just A Little Curious About Some Things

[NickHedge]

Mea Culpa to all the above.

But you misunderstand the point of my post. The point that I am making is NOT that everyone else is responsible, but that WE are ALL responsible, not just the politicians (for their lies/deceptions/chicanery), but WE the people for our failure to stand up and put a stop to it, to take back OUR control. But more so, WE the people are responsible because WE allowed it to progress to a point that WE lost OUR control. And we lost that control because as "the people" we got lazy, we "let someone else do it". We didn't want to take care of it ourselves, we abdicated our responsibility. WE failed to maintain vigilance and somewhere along the line lost our backbones and sold ourselves into slavery. Because basically what are we? Slaves. The economy is in shambles because our control was usurped and WE did nothing to stop it.

When I see reactions like this to this thread I know that I have hit a nerve and that is not my intention. My intention is to point out what WE ARE ALL guilty of. This country has had a bad reputation for many years and it will not get any better or worse with what I am posting. I can only speak for the country that I live in.

You don't know me. Stop looking at the avatar and listen to what I am saying. I work for a living and travel for my job. I meet thousands of people every year. Most of them are like what I described. I work with people who don't want to do anything but what is the absolute minimal amount and they want maximum amount of pay for it. They complain endlessly about how things are but at the end of the day what do they do? They buy more stuff, watch more reality TV, eat more junk food and cry about the system and DO NOTHING to change it or improve it. They live their lives by what they have. They want to be judged by what they own and where they live. Their lives are based on what they have, NOT who they are as people. I see it constantly. I can speak from experience.

I have lost it all and learned from it. I have had to start over many times. That is why I can speak like I do because I DID LEARN the errors of my ways first hand. I realized where I was being deceived. I saw where I was drinking the Kool-aid. I can't stop the intake of Kool-aid completely because to a certain degree it is being forced on me. But I can control it to some degree and I do. Now that I see things differently this automatically makes me unpopular. Because those who are still taking their "recommended daily allowance" of Kool-aid don't want to know.

Like I said this country will not live or die by this thread. It will reach very few people. But the truth is still the truth.

At the end of the day these are only my observations of the people that I come in contact with everyday. No one's making you react to this thread, you do so of your own accord.