11-17-2006, 01:59 PM
The problem with the American dream, like any other dream, is that you must be sound asleep to experience it.
Waking reality is quite a bit different.
As I grow older, and maybe wiser, I appreciate socialism a bit more, but I am not so sure that it is the answer.
Ultimately, if you don't like being poor, do something about it. It really is that simple. Easy even.
Do not live beyond your means. Ditch your credit cards. Pay cash for everything you buy. Having to pay actual cold hard cash makes you not want to spend it. Suddenly, that 40 inch tv isn't so special and the 20 inch will do just fine. Getting your self thousands of dollars in debt over the impulsive purchase of an item is stupidity. If you have to save a few months to generate enough cash for said item, you begin to have second thoughts about whether or not the item is worth it. And if you are lucky, you realise, those thousands of dollars you just saved are better served making money in a bank or some kind of wealth generation. All those trips to the coffee shop add up. That 50 dollars a week you blow in snacks, drinks, coffee, etc, that comes out to 200 dollars a month. 2400 dollars a year. That's a lot of green slipping through your fingers. Invest it in something that makes you money instead. Go to an auction. Buy property. Buy out lot items at estate sales.
People do stupid things with money. Consumerism bleeds people dry. There is to much pressure to spend every last dime you have. Because of credit people are spending money they don't have in to an economy that does not exist. Scary.
Waking reality is quite a bit different.
As I grow older, and maybe wiser, I appreciate socialism a bit more, but I am not so sure that it is the answer.
Ultimately, if you don't like being poor, do something about it. It really is that simple. Easy even.
Do not live beyond your means. Ditch your credit cards. Pay cash for everything you buy. Having to pay actual cold hard cash makes you not want to spend it. Suddenly, that 40 inch tv isn't so special and the 20 inch will do just fine. Getting your self thousands of dollars in debt over the impulsive purchase of an item is stupidity. If you have to save a few months to generate enough cash for said item, you begin to have second thoughts about whether or not the item is worth it. And if you are lucky, you realise, those thousands of dollars you just saved are better served making money in a bank or some kind of wealth generation. All those trips to the coffee shop add up. That 50 dollars a week you blow in snacks, drinks, coffee, etc, that comes out to 200 dollars a month. 2400 dollars a year. That's a lot of green slipping through your fingers. Invest it in something that makes you money instead. Go to an auction. Buy property. Buy out lot items at estate sales.
People do stupid things with money. Consumerism bleeds people dry. There is to much pressure to spend every last dime you have. Because of credit people are spending money they don't have in to an economy that does not exist. Scary.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."