Adam,
I sympathize with your personal situation.
I wish that given your current situation you at least had access to decent public health care in case you need it, we know how expensive private medicine can be.
On the mosque subject, which is something _completely_ different, all I have to say is:
They have the right to build it there.
Which does _not_ mean that they should exert such right.
A good society is built on respect for other people's beliefs and sensibilities; in this particular case, let us respect the Muslim's beliefs and they should respect the sensibilities of the non-Muslims.
OTOH, it would be quite interesting if that mosque had in its fa
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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2010, 09:55:43 PM »
| Bill_Urick wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 19:17 |
| Adam The Truck Driver wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 12:21 |
Is it just me, or has mere existence in the world become such an ordeal that it isn't
worth the hassle? I wake up, and wonder whats going to go wrong today, that will cost
me more than I have to give. I don't even have any credit card debt, or a house
payment. If I did, game over. Seems though just to live and breathe today I need at
least $1,200.00 a week just to scrape by, working myself to a frazzle and just
getting the utilities, and few payments I do have paid, saving little to nothing as
there isn't anything left to save usually in a typical week. However if I do get some
money built up in the bank, after months of penny pinching, something always
happens to drain it all and then some. Is life supposed be like this? What is the
point? The government wants their end too, and I don't have it. I have to borrow
money just to get back to work after this last disaster. Retirement is never going to
happen for me I know. Then there are those that want all us infidels dead anyway
who are going to be taking over the entire world in the not too distant future I
expect, based on birth rate statistics. They're imported but then, that gives us a new
war later, right here. So, thats a plus, right? EDIT: In the USA. Europe I understand is
a look at the future for the US.
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One word.
VOTE.
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Make the vote a popular one and voting makes sense. When the popular vote loses an election the government scam, likely for the sake of itself, is on to keep the machine going all snake like. Ring any bells?
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« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2010, 10:05:58 PM »
Thanks Terry, Ryan, and Chris for the encouragement and kind words and whatnot, and thanks to everyone here for the shoulder to cry on that puts up with me.
I agree with you Bill, vote, but we need a better system that can't fail us, and or start using checks and balances again, which we aren't using obviously. Actually, I think it's about time to do a complete reboot, chop chop like. Clean slate.
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« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2010, 03:46:40 PM »
I feel you man.
In a rut myself these days. The past 10 months or so have been epically trying. Financially, I've never felt so helpless in my life. I work a deadend job where no raises are given, and yet the organization spends millions without any thought given to the people that make it function on a day-to-day basis. My union actually voted AGAINST raises, yet they have no qualms sucking $20 out of every one of my paychecks. I live paycheck to paycheck, have zero savings, debt....
The worst part, is that I'm trapped, because I absolutely need the health insurance.
Meanwhile, I can't afford to pay rent, and my phone bill, and my student loans, so I've racked up a ton of credit card debt (for me anyway) just to get by.
I know that feeling of aloneness. I have great friends, and the most wonderful lady you could ever ask for, but I still feel like it's me against the world. I get angry, sad....scared.
BUT, I have a really great band that I love, and am getting more recording gigs. Shit, I've even partnered up with a close friend, and will finally have a real place to record music soon. Still though, there's a cloud floating above me from time-to-time, and I'm always wondering when it's going to start raining on me again.
I can't help but think things HAVE to get better from here.
When I get really low, my SG is always there to soak it up.
Chin up brother.
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« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2010, 04:03:03 PM »
| Adam The Truck Driver wrote on Tue, 03 August 2010 21:55 |
Make the vote a popular one and voting makes sense.
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Most elections are determined by the popular vote. There is a reason that the Presidential election is not, however. The US is a Republic made up of states, and the Founders made an intensive study into how to best keep both the majority AND the minority as safe and prosperous, and as represented, as possible. Not to mention the dichotomy between short term and long term interests. No system is perfect of course, and many things have now become somewhat skewed. Indeed the system of checks and balances between the states and the federal government, and amongst the three (supposedly) co-equal branches of government, often seem out of whack. Try reading The Federalist Papers as well as "Democracy In America" by deToqueville.
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« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2010, 04:08:18 PM »
I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.
Perspective and priorities.
Career shifts, massive debt, a divorce, my dad passed away last week....we all have our trials and no one can or should compare. I find peace focusing on things that are most important to me. My beautiful daughter, my amazing fianc
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« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2010, 08:38:37 PM »
Adam, sorry to have been a bit terse before. Just didn't have much time at the time...
Through my dark period I was very fortunate to have a best friend to go to when things were particularly bad.
I hope that you have someone like that. If not, I'm sure someone here, myself included, would be more than happy to be available if you need someone to talk to.
Platitudes and pep talks sometime aren't very helpful.
Sometimes you just have to trudge through though one day at a time even while believing that nothing can change except perhaps to get worse.
But change is inevitable and something positive will occur, even if just due to the law of averages. You'll never know unless you hang in there.
As for the political stuff...
Nothing wrong with the Electoral College.
Sometimes it lines up with the popular vote, sometimes not.
No big whoop as long as the rules are always the same.
And Bloomberg's a dick.
But in addition to doing everything possible to destroy the private sector, cripple the economy and expand the federal government into every aspect of our lives, everyone sees this administration and their accomplices constantly apologising to and for the religion that is bent on conquering and enslaving the world. No exaggeration. That's their stated objective.
The president will fly off the handle and accuse a cop or an entire state of racism but tell us not to rush to judgement when Major Hasan guns down 43 unarmed US soldiers. (13 killed, 30 wounded)
And Bloomberg's "25 cent" guess to Katie Couric as to who tried to set off the car bomb in Times Square was that it was someone "unhappy about the healthcare bill".
When the truth comes out it's always painted as an isolated incident. Just some nut. Not terrorism.
But everyone sees this.
They got power, they got cocky, and they took off the mask.
The only problem is IF the Republicans get back in power, how long before the Washington country-club syndrome kicks in and we're right back where we started.
The Dems may be evil incarnate, but the Reps tend to be fat and lazy and devoid of conviction and balls. Way too concerned about being "liked" by people who will never like them.
So maybe that's the answer, Adam.
Don't be sad, be PISSED OFF.
We might not be able to change anything long term this November, but at least we can punish these bastards a little.
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for everyone thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
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