AMERICAN IDOL

[wadestock]

The rich.

Buy another lottery ticket.

Watch another sports game with spoiled mega million paid players.

Kiss another management ass as it strips away your benefits.

America....
idolize the rich....
like you've never done before.
Uncle Ronny told you so.
You should keep your money.
You can spend it better than the government.

Oh by the way....

Why are we in this so called "war".

I talked to an old friend today.
Worked with for over 20 years.
He's been in Iraq for the past 2 years.

He said...."you have to go there"....with eyes twinkling.
I came back to see my daughter....but I should be back in a couple weeks.

Really?
(30 minute conversation ensues)

Is that right? You won't get taxed on your first 80K?

They'll take anyone that has any technical skills at all.
They'd take you in a second.
Can you take off a year or two?

I saved over 100K in just 2 years there!!!!
I want to go back for another 2.
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I've studied this war from every conceivable logical point of view....as you probably have. Yes, behind it all there's the unavoidable...the logic that we as a nation can't continue to burn along for another 50 to 100 years without another 100 billion barrels of oil. Oil man + CEO of a pharmaceutical industry....+ a few neocons.....hmmmm...maybe that means let's see what we can exploit in the worlds second biggest oil reserve.

But for some reason....I never realized until today just why our Government has endorsed this so called war.

Think about it.
The American public wouldn't ever support a war for oil.
Of course not.
The American public wants cheap oil...but wouldn't necessarily kill for cheap oil.

So what's reinforcing this war??????

THE GREATEST NEW FRONTIER OF OPPORTUNITY THAT HAS PRESENTED ITSELF IN RECENT AMERICAN HISTORY!!!!

THINK ABOUT IT.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Tell your friend not to lose his head over a wad of money that is

worth less every day thanks to the war.

[wadestock]

2. I doubt I'll be talking to him any time soon....

He is instantly a FORMER friend.
But the point is this....

Our lust for money continues.
We tend to morph goodness in with this lust for money.

It's an illusive and self-centered "hope" that one might succeed.
It's being ever increasingly stretched....as our capitalistic system folds in on itself and rewards principally only the upper 5%.

The psychosis is due to the fact that the carrot is ever more illusive.
Ever less satisfying.
As so we find ourselves at "war".

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I've witnessed friend after friend work and worry their lives away

chasing that same illusive carrot. Sad to watch. Trapped by their blinding greed, like the monkey that reaches into the jar for the coin and when he picks it up, he can't get his hand out of the jar.

[Amonester]

3. Some can never cease of always wanting more than they need.

http://www.simpleliving.net/awakeningearth/reports_the_last_taboo.asp

~snip~
The unrelenting consumerist bias of television distorts our view of reality and social priorities, leaving us entertainment rich and knowledge poor. Television may be our window onto the world, but the view it provides is cramped and narrow. Television may be the mirror in which we see ourselves as a society, but the reflection it gives is often distorted and unbalanced. Our evolutionary intelligence is being tested by how well we use this powerful vehicle to communicate collectively about our future.

Just how urgent our situation has become was made clear by a 1992 Warning to Humanity that was signed by over 1600 scientists, including a majority of the living Nobel laureates in the sciences. They said that "human beings and the natural world are on a collision course" and said that without a "great change in our stewardship of the earth" the natural world would be "irretrievably mutilated" and this would result in "vast human misery." If the deep future of human civilization is now at stake, then what is the mass media doing? Currently, the communications industry is actively participating in the "irretrievable mutilation" of the planet by aggressively promoting a lethal addiction -- obsessive consumerism.

World leaders are wrestling with how to stabilize the planet's population and achieve sustainable development. In an historic bargain, poor countries are being urged to curb their birth rates and rich countries are being urged to curb the rate at which they use up the world's resources and pollute the planet's environment. Yet, how can we in the wealthy nations be expected to consume less when the media that dominates our consciousness continuously tells us to buy ever more?
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:shrug:

Too "profitable" to think about their kids' kids...
Who cares for them?