[quote=citydweller]
flu, it seems like you’ve been able to accumulate wealth, but I get the sense that you are not happy. You seem to have a lot of complaints about the world we live in.

I personally have not accumulated a lot of wealth, but I have learned to be happy with what I have. I do not begrudge any of the money I pay in taxes. I appreciate that the taxes I have paid during my working years have provided me with this incredibly amazing country we live in.

Every day I can flip a switch and my lights come on, I turn a faucet and clean water comes out, I eat at restaurants and have never gotten food poisoning, I make money and put it in the bank and none of it has ever disappeared, I make monthly payments on my condo and I have never had to defend my right to be here. I could go on and on. It frustrates me that some people can live in this incredible abundance and security that we have in the U.S. and still complain because they think we should have MORE![/quote]

Lol. Actually, I’m pretty happy. Contrary to popular belief, I’m frustrated because I care. But I’m learning not too….

It frustrates me that people have shitty work ethics and shitty entitlement mentality in this country, because it means our younger generation doesn’t have a frickin chance…It surprises me that our younger generation doesn’t seem to care about what’s in store for them… It frustrates me that the solution to any problem is this country is to spend more on credit under the guise that it is necessary, and that increasing taxes alone on some faction of our society will solve the fundamental problem we have (deficit spending)..

….. and that even on this forum, despite everyone saying/agreeing and calling for more fiscal responsibility and on the concern of the lack of moral hazard we were all talking about during the eye of the real estate meltdown, I get the impression that either (a) people have gotten use to this and don’t care….. or worse (b) somehow some people really think there isn’t a problem anymore.

It has nothing to do the actual political “parties”…Who cares about the political parties… I’m sure if you had a supermajority GOP in CA government or Fed government, they’d be equally horrendous and fvcked up…. It has everything to do with runaway spending… Have we all forgotten about that? Or have we all just given up? It’s an interesting observation…Because I tend to believe that on piggs, at least from the original members most people were on the same page on what a wrong direction we’re headed…What happened?

It’s also an interesting observation that despite everyone’s idealogy of calling for fiscal responsibility… When push really comes to shove, very few people do the very things that everyone else is being asked to do… The analogy is like we’re about to go to war with another country, and everyone’s supportive and cheering for it…But when they need soldiers, the same cheerleaders run for cover and the mentality is “yeah, I think your son should go to war and fight for us for the greater good and possibly die…But I’m not sending my own son there”….