Busted

In case you hadn't noticed by now, the economy is a lil bit busted. Money is never important unless your the one that ain't got it. When people are strugglin' to put food on the table and clothes on their backs I can't help but wonder where it all went wrong.


It's pretty clear to me that I messed up after my first credit card. One is okay. Good to have in tight spots and the way nobody takes a check anymore you practically gotta have one. They can also help you build credit so you can get better deals on your house or car. And in the event that you need a loan, the bank likes knowin' you pay your debts. But Credit cards are sumthin' a lotta people got carried away with. Five grand in credit is NOT the same as Five grand in cash.


I had one card and opened a second with another company 'cause the second company was one that you were s'posed to be able to take anywhere. 'Cept you can't 'cause a lotta people don't take it and you gotta pay it all off inside of thirty days. But I had them both anyway and had used up 'bout half the limit on both of 'em. Could be worse.


It did get worse. I opened a third to help a girl I loved by puttin' her name on my card and she maxed it out in about six months. Not too long ago she decided that since we were over that so was whatever tied her to that debt.


Credit is all bull. My policy is this now: If I ain't got the cash to pay for it I don't need it. Nuthin' goes on the cards anymore. Once I'm done payin' on these cards, they're done.


It's the policy we should've kept as a country. Somebody offers broke people a means to live like they got an extra ten grand coming in, of course they were gonna try and live like superstars. Credit is non-existent money changin' hands and non-existent money is really only debt. Didn't have the money to pay for it today, why would I have the money in thirty days? But credit companies count on that. They don't make millions by handin' out free money, they make it by chargin' you to be in debt to them. Interest rates are just price tags on top of the debt you shouldn't have 'cause you can't really afford what you wanted in the first place. It's a dirty trick and I can't see how anybody can support the idea but a lot of people, includin' myself, have gone for it.


It's our own fault though. We buy all this crap that doesn't make us happy to stuff in the nicest homes we can't afford so that people will look at us and think we're sumthin' that we ain't. Now ain't nobody got much of nuthin'.


On top of a bad joke like credit to deal with, we all have this damned dependency on gas. Got a tank of gas last night and paid $2.68 a gallon for it. That's not as bad as I've seen it get. It was up to 'bout $3.50 a year or so ago. Long lines at the pumps, places entirely outta gas. Then it all dropped down to $2.50 and people were so relieved. But we shouldn't have to pay so much when I can remember 89 cents a gallon. I understand inflation but from what I hear the cost of a drum of oil hasn't gone up any but the cost at the pump has.



Every resource we have is finite so why did people think they could just keep makin' more on more machines that'd run on the same crap? We were already gonna run outta the stuff and then these geniuses give us fifty billion different ways to do it.



Why didn't anybody do more to find other things that'd run our cars or lights? 'Cause it wasn't profitable. Research and development can take years and you gotta pay for all of it even the stuff that fails. Ideas are only profitable when they work and produce more than they costs. So, you got only a handful of dedicated people workin' on ideas other than a new way to use gas and by the time these dedicated people get theirs to work there are a dozen other uses for oil. Now we have plastic, gasoline, diesel, all kinds of vehicles, and only a handful in comparison that run on anything else.



The worst part about our dependency on that thick, black, ooze that's become our nation's lifeblood is this damned war. Let me start this by sayin' that the soldiers are not at fault for anything. Their job is to do what they're told. They work hard and bust their asses to protect this country's freedom and its people as best they can. It's a hard life. The military has helped a lotta misguided people find their way and helped a lotta others find new opportunities and become better people. But not every war we fight is gonna be a righteous one. Vietnam wasn't. This one isn't. The crusades were wars fought in the name of God against the forces of evil to protect the holyland, problem is that's how both sides felt. They both got so caught up in their beliefs that the wars became unholy abominations.



That's kinda how this war on terror and in Iraq, and any place else that doesn't have a McDonald's or a Wal-Mart and the people's skin is a bit too dark, has become the bastard that it is. 9-11-01, we got hit. People died. Their families were sad and hurt and angry. Osama claimed responsibility. We went after him. Natural reaction. Somebody said he was hangin' with Saddam, talkin' shit 'bout the U.S., and they had W.M.D's. We went in there and killed the devil out of Saddam and still haven't caught Osama 9 years later.



We killed a guy our president's daddy got into a fight with 'bout twenty years ago and have tried to set up a government that we approve of in a country that sits over a way to make money. It's not a coincidence in my eyes. I dunno 'bout all these conspiracy theories 'bout 9-11 bein' an inside job. I don't have any proof but I know people. People do stupid and selfish things all the time. People use other people all the time. Politicians are notorious bastards. You think they wouldn't use and abuse innocent soldiers to attack an innocent nation to get what they want?



If we stopped this damned war there'd be a lot of funds set free and put back in our pockets. We'd save lives, money, and time by just ending it. People won't be happy 'cause to end the war without winnin' is like sayin' these soldiers died for nuthin'. Unfortunately, that's the way I see it and the way it seems to be.



I mean no disrespect to the soldiers 'cause you guys signed up believin' what you were told. It was a good story but not a lick of truth to it. I know it's a hard life and I'm sure people give you crap 'bout it all the time.

Truth is I just want you guys brought home safe and sound for your own sake and so that maybe we don't all die of starvation 'cause we can't afford to buy the food at the Wal-mart we work at in a newly acquired American territory of Iraq.



The economy's busted. I'm busted. And those lyin' devils only got so long 'fore they're busted. Truth will come out soon enough and things'll get better. Or we'll all be busted.





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