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Tired of all this shit going down on TV? Tired of hearing about how awful the economy is and how America is going in the dump and won’t recover from this recession for decades? Then get up off you fucking ass and do something about it.

You Mr.. Expert on the TV telling me how my life sucks, get out there and spend some of the hard earned money you make by scaring people, and put it back into the community that pays you to hear doom and gloom.

You Mr.. Baseball Star, stop whining about how you didn’t know you were being shot up with an illegal substance and instead donate to charity, buy the homes of some poor people that are being foreclosed on. I don’t want to hear about how you might loose your $5 million dollar bonus, on top of the $50 million you’re already making for just throwing a piece of leather around for others enjoyment.

Real estate: I know location is everything, but

I shouldn’t have to pay $250,000 for materials that cost about $10,000 on a plot of hilly quarter acre land that is malnourished and can’t grow any good crops. Sure it’s close to the interstate and city life, it’s also close to those same dickheads who shattered my driver side window on my car and stole my stereo and amplifier.

Apartment complex managers, your places shouldn’t cost more than the median monthly income of the community you are in. $900 for 850 square feet, 2 bed 1.5 bath, and no real dining room with poor insulation throughout is not a home, it’s a shack. I could build a house for a few thousand bucks with triple the space. Sure, there wouldn’t be any actual rooms divided by walls, but it’d be a building that was more livable than that piece of crap you call “A wonderful home!”

Today’s youth is already fucked, they’re busy buying electronics, phones, cameras, games and gaming consoles, paying monthly for the privilege to play online or to visit porn that is freely available in other places. And this will only get worse, why pay off that loan when you can get another one to do it for you, and then get so far in debt that you decide whether you want to keep playing on the Wii or you want to have a roof over your head, say hello to mommy and daddy for me as you move back into the basement.

We couldn’t even bring back the barter system with how far gone this society is, very few people have any actual real physical skills any more.

Then there are the corporations that betray us, pay people in other countries a few bucks a day to do triple the work. Reminds me of a story I heard once, about this programmer who freelanced and outsourced his work, would pay this guy in China a quarter of what he made, and never had to actually do any work beyond finding a customer who needed some custom programming. Now I’m not “BUY AMERICAN!” by any means of the word, but I do believe in buying locally before buying internationally whenever possible. It is definitely better to put the money you earn back into the local economy, because if your local grocer, farmer, delivery person and other businesses don’t survive, then you only have major retail chains to rely upon. What happens when Wal-Mart is the only store around? They choose what you can buy, they choose how much you’re going to pay, and they begin to make decisions in the community that’ll benefit them first and foremost, rather than the community as a whole.

CHEROKEE NORTH CAROLINA, HEAD MY WARNINGS!!! STOP THE WAL-MART NOW!!!

The only way we as Americans will get out of this rut is if we spend responsibly and stick by our guns. Don’t say “The misses and I are going to save up our money and buy food from the grocer and stop eating out” and think that will solve the issue, because if you stop eating out, then the restaurants will suffer, which in turn makes the servers, cooks, bar tenders, greeters, commissary, delivery people, bread company, fisherman, farmers and oil companies just to name a few, suffer. Guess what happens if these people suffer? They don’t spend, meaning they will cut back on the products they buy, like television service through satellite or cable, birthday cards for Jimmy, travel less meaning less money at the gas station, which means less hours for grossly underpaid staff, which means less money spent on medical needs. It’s a huge fucking trickle down effect of the poor getting poorer.

Instead, how about going out to eat less, but still doing it? Once a week, twice a month? Otherwise if you do nothing but sit there and save all your money, the job you’re saving money from may not exist much longer, because if you stop buying others services, how are they going to be able to afford your service?

Action is what we need, and we need it now, save but still buy, don’t listen to the doom and gloomers, don’t pay attention to economists, don’t worry about the bad, the worse, and the ugly, just take care of what needs to be taken care of. Support your local community, support your local artists and you will end up support the world.

Or you can just give all your money to me, I need it right now so the wife and I can buy a home.

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And now, a forking penis.

Teh James