free-dumb

hi,
I would like to know how some people get through life. As my friend Beth says "common sense is not so common any more". Daily I run into human beings making bad choices and then wondering why things are going well for them. Leave your keys in the car, and be shocked when someone stole it. Forget your spouses birthday, and not know why they are pissed at you. Bail out a business bleeding money, then question why things haven't turned around yet. Let us look closer at that last example.

Here I am (not really ME, but the theoretical "me"). My business is failing, I'm in debt to my eyeballs, I've run a company into the ground and have a hole 100' deep to try and climb my way out of. Logically I should just bury the poor dead thing and walk away. Throwing good money after bad has never worked out for anything. Why hasn't the U.S. government paid attention to this idea? Why are they all so hell bent on throwing more money at something that is so broken and sick it needs to die. No one wants a full blown recession. Why not? It's what is needed to get back on track. We could rise from the ashes like the Phoenix and be stronger for. Instead the fat cats get a bail out, pat themselves on the back for conning the government into saving their sorry asses and then to add insult to injury, they take the money and dole out excessive bonuses to themselves and all their buddies on the board who voted for them... and the circle goes round & round. It makes me sick.

Has anything been saved? Not one darn thing in my opinion. The markets continue to plummet. The dollar is dropping like a stone. Investors are heading to the hills. The U.S.A. is in a very sick state yet the IPO "dot-com" idiots are trying to tell us that the internet is worth billions and we should throw more money at the air, just like we did in 2008. History repeats itself when we don't pay attention to the first go-round.

The only thing that lets me sleep at night is the fact that Marshall & I owe nothing. Everything we have is paid for, ours in full, no debt, not one cent. If the value of the house, or the cars, or the stocks move up or down it doesn't matter, no one can come calling to repossess any of it. I don't know how people can live in a situation when, technically, the bank owns it all through loans and mortgages. The bank doesn't even want any of our stuff either, they are loaded down with their own losses. Self inflicted wounds abound and everyone was at fault. The greed took over and the common sense, which is not so common according to Beth, completely left the room.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, just free-dumb.

xox
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