Here is a real life story. I lived next door to a couple that worked at GM for a number of years. They each had new trucks, they each had nice motor cycles, they both had snowmobiles and trailers for all, and they had a nice big boat. And a great big house and mortgage. I know what they made, they did not make enough to have all this stuff, they borrowed the money. The company they worked for ran in the red for many years, and finally went bankrupt. they both lost their jobs, they lost all their stuff, and the house...I don't where where they moved to but...I had to support them, and their banks that lent them the money, and their place of business... with my money. I never lived that way, I only bought what I had cash for my whole life, but yet I had to support all the crap they did to themselves. Now somehow, since I lived my life conservatively and waited for everything I bought till I could afford it...I am somehow shunned as a conservative person, and I have to pay for all the people, the banks, and the places of business that went bankrupt due to their own bad judgements.
That ain't right no matter how you cut it. My enemies are not corporations, or banks, or even GM...it is the people themselves who who do not use good judgement, a government who lives the same way and promotes this way of life and points at me as a conservative bastard for saving money I worked hard for. In my opinion a large portion of the American people are not good stewards of their money, they buy things that can't afford, and there is also a large portion of people who want what I have just because I have it....it ain't right that I lived without for many years and used good judgement and have to now be looked at as a source of income for all those who did not. Every problem we have started with the people themselves...until we realize this and people change and live within their means...nothing will ever change, and everyone will need an enemy to point at. I have survived not because of my government and people like this, I have survived in spite of all of them, and it's getting harder being a conservative and labled the problem, when in fact I am actually holding up all their flawed way of life. They should be thanking me instead of pointing at me and the place I work for. But that's human nature...use up all your supplies and grab someone else's. The American Peoples attitudes are the real problem. Or at least a large portion of them. What made this country great was the effort it took to get somewhere in life, and the chances you took to get there, and the going without until the right time. Now everyone needs enemies and I happen to be one I guess.
