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Greed, and the Feed Bag I have Decided that we are totally Greedy. I know I know, bout time I caught up with everyone else. We know that we are greedy, it isn't hard to see. Americans want what we want, and we also want it yesterday. We don't even have to know that we want something, before they start shoving it down our throat. Every time I turn on the TV, I see something that I have wanted all my life, yet some how I never knew it existed. Amazing isn't it. If there is one thing to love about this country, it is the free markets ability to extract the money from my pocket for something that I have no need for, other than to feed my greed. They (and I use 'they' because that allows me to shift the blame to someone else) do this so easily I might ad. I feel like a horse with a feed bag on its mouth, all it has to do is chew. I must say that my own need for things that are pretty and to be pretty is no match to our greed as a people. This can also be seen on television. The remote stopped on Oprah moments ago, I think the batteries died at that moment, and they were doing a makeover show. However this isn't you're mama's makeover show when they take some poor girl that can't do make up, spend $200 on an outfit and her hair cut, and toss some spackle on her face and surprise, someone is cute for a few hours. This makeover show has taken a far more expensive turn. Now, well not so much now, this has been going on for a while, they makeover your entire house. They have been giving this to us for a few years now, so we are spoiled. We now demand this as people. We want to see the makeover shows where they come in and change every thing around and spend ten thousand dollars and yadda yadda yadda, and then we show the people and they cry cause they are so happy. It is there own fault too. I can't imagine all the money they are spending on these peoples homes just to get us to watch there show. I wonder if New Orleans is gonna be the new back drop for one of these shows. The sad thing is that with all these makeover shows on TV, the people sitting at home eating McDonalds getting fat or fatter don't learn anything. It only gives them an ounce of confidence that they too can become a home designer for them selves, and thousands of husbands come home every day to a new living room that looks like garbage. His only recourse is to take away the credit card, and pad lock the garage so if she gets any ideas to spread to other areas of the house, his one sanctuary will be protected. No one learns anything from these makeover shows. Alaska is evidence of this daily. GOP, Greed over Patriotism. I saw this on an AIM profile many agos ago, and it is seen more and more now that I'm noticing it. Think back when oil was around $28 a barrel. Seems like a dream these days. I can remember when OPEC started to slow production because the price of oil was crazy low, once it had gotten close to $36 a barrel (I think, it was along time ago) Clinton was all over the OPEC nations to increase production. He released oil for the American reserves to help keep the price of gas from climbing. These days it takes a hurricane and oil prices to be at $70 a barrel before BushCo. does anything to offset the price of gas to the consumer. It would also seem that we as a people will feed our hunger at any cost. In a time when energy prices are high, we as a people aren't doing anything to help. There are a few persons doing there part, but no major movement driving us to conserve a little. Slowly governments are giving benefits to people with hybrid cars, such as California allowing hybrids that get 45+MPG to use the car pool lane. However the government isn't doing anything on a large scale to get us to bare some of the weight of this war and the effects of it. No campaign to get everyone to buy the nice energy efficient light bulbs that last forever. Nothing to get people away from powerful V8 engines that are popping up more and more every year. What is up with this muscle car revival in the midst of record high oil and gas prices. They make it so easy and so very tasty. I won't hide my shame. I want that Dodge charger, and the new Jeep Grand Cherokee SKT8 with the 6.7 Hemi pushing 405hp. I want it bad. Just toss it in the feed bag. I'll eat it. At some point we are all gonna have to take a step back and look at what we want vs. what we need vs. what is sensible and do what is best. Then again, maybe someone should just make us do it, because as I see it, we aren't getting too far on our own. |
