Given the current situation we are in... people want to turn and blame someone else. Which I think is probably the most logical thing we can think of at the present moment. But in reality, it wasn't any ONE person to blame. We are all probably in some way at fault. It all resulted from things like GREED, the increasing wants of the Americans, the use of credit, the over-reliance on credit, 'biting off more than you can chew', inflated prices, and probably false highs in the stock market.... Well now we are all getting a dose of reality. Life is a shit sandwich, and YES it tastes like shit no matter what.
What about all these McMansions that Americans want to live in? I saw a family of eleven. 11! that fit in a house that is less than 500 sq. ft....
...think about that. How big is a dorm room?...
Basically our 1200+ square foot homes are for what? So that we are comfortable? so we have our space? so we have space to store a bunch of unused junk that we will end up never using and our kids will have to sort through and sell when we finally die...
This has been some kick I've been on for a couple weeks now. The American dream is a shitty dream. If you want to be part of it, you suck. I don't want a huge house, with a nice car, and a big green lawn (and all of the debt that goes along with that...because face it, how many people do you know that have ZERO debt?)
We have to figure this problem out or this current economic 'problem' will turn into something a lot worse. Oh and our image as a country isn't going to improve either. America SUCKS. and yes I'm going to live here. I can have an opinion about our country. I'm also fully aware of what it's like in a third world country. It REALLY sucks there. and at the end of the day, we all have problems and the grass is not green on either side. Its brown and dead.
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Interesting . . . You guys all have such vastly differing opinions on your blogs . . . It amazes me. I have to say, I'm with ya' on feeling a little negative/worried. I think we're in for some trouble - and maybe it will do some of us some good. I wish I was comfortable enough financially (or that I owned a paid for cabin on a piece of land in Greenland) that I could just sit back and observe the craziness, but, alas, I do NOT have ZERO debt. I'm not quite up for living in my van.
ReplyDeleteGreatest quote on the blog roll: "The American dream is a shitty dream. If you want to be part of it, you suck."