Greetings good citizen, the calendar is just one page and only days remaining before 2016 enters the history books.
We all know it's impossible to 'win' a game where the goal posts keep shifting and recently I have read of those who didn't achieve the American Dream despite doing their damnedest to hit the markers on time.
The one that makes me tweak is the bit about not being able to retire if you don't have 2 million dollars set aside. [It's more than TWICE what I've made my entire working career!] Stories are legion about the elderly eating pet food and living in freezing conditions because their SSI pensions don't provide enough for them to afford heat AND food.
Most of 'em live, a testament to their 'hardiness' more so than anything else. Then again, certain details never reach the public's curious mind. (like the circumstances surrounding those who asphyxiate themselves, starve to death or both.)
Death by 'natural causes' disappeared from the medical lexicon thanks to bloodthirsty lawyers but, ironically, a families 'right to privacy' trumps the public's 'right to know', especially when it comes to death by destitution.
WOULD YOU work like a dog all your life if you knew what awaited you after you hit the scrap heap?
Worse, MOST OF US hit the scrap heap much sooner than anticipated...making what we're 'entitled to' even less than originally counted upon.
No point in boo-hooing, we're the group bringing up the rear of the of the Baby Boom, we were only going to get the 'leavings' regardless.
But many of us struggled for years trying to get our feet under us...only to have them kicked out from under us again repeatedly by the relentless offshoring and downsizing brought upon us by 'Morning in America' and the so-called 'Republican revolution'.
While electing Trump, who RAN AS A REPUBLICAN BUT CAMPAIGNED AS A DEMOCRAT [Back when there were still democrats] was an exercise in pretzel logic, as we are seeing, this 'lack of accountability' from our 'can't touch 'em once they win' elected officials [who thought THIS was a good idea? Oh yeah, the knotheads holding the gun...the ones that make whoever we elect do what THEY SAY after we can no longer, er, 'threaten them'.
Big Flaw but what are a gonna do, we also weren't invited to the 'design meeting' when all of this was set up...
Should tell ya something in itself but no...most people don't waste their time thinking about how stuff SHOULD work. EXCEPT THE OCCASSIONAL SCREWBALL...
(oops, I resemble that remark!)
Anyway, why do so many people 'miss the mark' when it comes to achieving The American Dream? The steps are simple and straight-forward. There's nothing particularly difficult about it [except the staying in one place for forty years, that part has proven devilishly difficult, considering the ever-shifting landscape we call a 'working environment'. But we have zero control over that variable, making the American Dream just that, a made up fantasy!
No irony should be lost that we still dutifully teach our children to chase that dream! Like we, never quite having nailed it down, believe that our kids will be 'luckier' in a world rapidly filling with [allegedly] lower paid and better educated 'competition'...
Just how big of a SAP are you?
We all want the best for our kids but it ain't gonna happen if we don't TEACH THEM HOW!
I know most of you are old and tired and you figure your done raising your kids but the job isn't 'finished', they are still missing some essential items from their toolbox.
Kids (I know some of my audience is 'youthful' if not necessarily young...not throwing stones, just facing reality!) You've heard my calls for strike and feel the 'wisdom' of not engaging in 'direct conflict'.
The (infamous) THEY don't dare re-instate outright SLAVERY by forcing workers back to work, the revolt would be insane.
Because that's the 'next level'...their 'play' is (and always has been) 'Peace at any price'.
Their 'determination' to kill those who do not comply has to be met with 'equal ferocity' on YOUR PART.
There truly is a point where life 'isn't worth living' and you are truly guilty of 'sending your children into bondage'.
[You didn't 'sell' them into it, you have no choice! You GET nothing out of this Faustian bargain! This is what you need to realize!]
YOUR PARENTS didn't 'stand up' for you and by the time your kids realize YOU LIED TO THEM, they will be parents themselves!
Thus the 'chain' remains unbroken...so 'a few' can be rich...and squander what is rightfully the future's!
Sounds crazy until you actually think about it. Most of you chalk up your 'unhappiness' to your own 'failure', all the while knowing it is the 'shifting goalposts' fault. Ones that kept moving just as you got close!
THAT wasn't your fault, you don't control the goalposts...not the 'one more things' that keep springing up to keep 'the life' just out of your reach.
You know what did though? Not your not trying hard enough, it was THEM keeping your children in bondage!
Looks selfish on your part until you realize it's THEIR JOB TO KEEP YOU CHASING THE CARROT [donkey!]
How many times do I have to tell you to 'smarten up' until you actually DO IT!
Well, that's enough for today. Think I'm a bit off the deep end YOU try doing this every day for twenty years and see what it does to you...
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
We all know it's impossible to 'win' a game where the goal posts keep shifting and recently I have read of those who didn't achieve the American Dream despite doing their damnedest to hit the markers on time.
The one that makes me tweak is the bit about not being able to retire if you don't have 2 million dollars set aside. [It's more than TWICE what I've made my entire working career!] Stories are legion about the elderly eating pet food and living in freezing conditions because their SSI pensions don't provide enough for them to afford heat AND food.
Most of 'em live, a testament to their 'hardiness' more so than anything else. Then again, certain details never reach the public's curious mind. (like the circumstances surrounding those who asphyxiate themselves, starve to death or both.)
Death by 'natural causes' disappeared from the medical lexicon thanks to bloodthirsty lawyers but, ironically, a families 'right to privacy' trumps the public's 'right to know', especially when it comes to death by destitution.
WOULD YOU work like a dog all your life if you knew what awaited you after you hit the scrap heap?
Worse, MOST OF US hit the scrap heap much sooner than anticipated...making what we're 'entitled to' even less than originally counted upon.
No point in boo-hooing, we're the group bringing up the rear of the of the Baby Boom, we were only going to get the 'leavings' regardless.
But many of us struggled for years trying to get our feet under us...only to have them kicked out from under us again repeatedly by the relentless offshoring and downsizing brought upon us by 'Morning in America' and the so-called 'Republican revolution'.
While electing Trump, who RAN AS A REPUBLICAN BUT CAMPAIGNED AS A DEMOCRAT [Back when there were still democrats] was an exercise in pretzel logic, as we are seeing, this 'lack of accountability' from our 'can't touch 'em once they win' elected officials [who thought THIS was a good idea? Oh yeah, the knotheads holding the gun...the ones that make whoever we elect do what THEY SAY after we can no longer, er, 'threaten them'.
Big Flaw but what are a gonna do, we also weren't invited to the 'design meeting' when all of this was set up...
Should tell ya something in itself but no...most people don't waste their time thinking about how stuff SHOULD work. EXCEPT THE OCCASSIONAL SCREWBALL...
(oops, I resemble that remark!)
Anyway, why do so many people 'miss the mark' when it comes to achieving The American Dream? The steps are simple and straight-forward. There's nothing particularly difficult about it [except the staying in one place for forty years, that part has proven devilishly difficult, considering the ever-shifting landscape we call a 'working environment'. But we have zero control over that variable, making the American Dream just that, a made up fantasy!
No irony should be lost that we still dutifully teach our children to chase that dream! Like we, never quite having nailed it down, believe that our kids will be 'luckier' in a world rapidly filling with [allegedly] lower paid and better educated 'competition'...
Just how big of a SAP are you?
We all want the best for our kids but it ain't gonna happen if we don't TEACH THEM HOW!
I know most of you are old and tired and you figure your done raising your kids but the job isn't 'finished', they are still missing some essential items from their toolbox.
Kids (I know some of my audience is 'youthful' if not necessarily young...not throwing stones, just facing reality!) You've heard my calls for strike and feel the 'wisdom' of not engaging in 'direct conflict'.
The (infamous) THEY don't dare re-instate outright SLAVERY by forcing workers back to work, the revolt would be insane.
Because that's the 'next level'...their 'play' is (and always has been) 'Peace at any price'.
Their 'determination' to kill those who do not comply has to be met with 'equal ferocity' on YOUR PART.
There truly is a point where life 'isn't worth living' and you are truly guilty of 'sending your children into bondage'.
[You didn't 'sell' them into it, you have no choice! You GET nothing out of this Faustian bargain! This is what you need to realize!]
YOUR PARENTS didn't 'stand up' for you and by the time your kids realize YOU LIED TO THEM, they will be parents themselves!
Thus the 'chain' remains unbroken...so 'a few' can be rich...and squander what is rightfully the future's!
Sounds crazy until you actually think about it. Most of you chalk up your 'unhappiness' to your own 'failure', all the while knowing it is the 'shifting goalposts' fault. Ones that kept moving just as you got close!
THAT wasn't your fault, you don't control the goalposts...not the 'one more things' that keep springing up to keep 'the life' just out of your reach.
You know what did though? Not your not trying hard enough, it was THEM keeping your children in bondage!
Looks selfish on your part until you realize it's THEIR JOB TO KEEP YOU CHASING THE CARROT [donkey!]
How many times do I have to tell you to 'smarten up' until you actually DO IT!
Well, that's enough for today. Think I'm a bit off the deep end YOU try doing this every day for twenty years and see what it does to you...
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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