So I was thinking last night about what we could do as a nation to fix the economy, and I figured it out. We can all stop being stupid. I have a friend who recently lost his job, problem, his boss apparently is stupid. I see that we rack up dollars upon dollars of needless, pointless, worthless, credit debt and when push comes to shove we punish those beneath us to fix our problems. I work for a company now that is in the midst of trying to determine what is the best approach to the dramatic decline in our economy that is slowly but surely hitting the printing industry. You see our problem isn't inefficiency, or wasted time and materials, rather a lack of sales.
So one should conclude that we have a problem in "SALES" right? But it seems that when the high, (sometimes) over-payed sales reps cannot do their job productively, the people who are doing all the work suffer. I have concluded that when we, (and by we I mean the nation of workers), step up and say that these high salaried non producing sales reps, supervisors, VPs and Presidents, CEOs and so on have no right to continue working for their money when they aren't working at all, something may actually change. (Listing those titles in no way is representative of the higher ups in our company. They too used to be workers and understand where our problem lies within the company.)
I wonder how long it will take a nation of people who have been given everything, all the way down to an African American President who isn't really African American anyway, to look up and realize that we have no one to blame but ourselves for being sheepish enough to follow suit with creditors and lenders stealing our money while we continue to over spend. I only mention Obama to say that we beg for the things we think we want, but sit back and take it from behind when it comes to the things we need to survive. Obama promised change, and I will respect that promise (as far as a politician's promise can be respected) until I see otherwise. I do have to say though that we have made a mess of our country, this great country that we brutally and forcefully stole from other human beings who apparently weren't high enough in the lifeboat to make it. Why are we sitting here waiting for a MAN to come in and fix it. It is our responsibility as people and citizens to stand for what is correct and stop lying down in front of opposition.
When I was in high school, and even now in some instances, if you fell at the feet of opposition you were kindly called the oh so offensive word "pussy". Is that what we are? Are we a nation of babies who need mommy's hand every time something goes wrong? Do we want to fix the economy or do we want the economy fixed for us? Put down the credit cards and spend your HARD earned cash and make the people who screwed us in the first place suffer. Credit was given as a way to mend a wound dolled out years ago during the depression, and we have allowed that same bandage to become a weapon. A weapon I might add that seems to be continuously used in friendly fire.
Do you really not know why I refuse to vote? Why would I vote for a President when I live in a country full of people who make irrational decision in their everyday choices, and carry those same irrational decision into the voters booth every four years, just to hear them complain because THEY once again made an irrational decision? I have enough sense to know that in this country my voice doesn't matter on paper, it only matters in person. Stand up for yourself and stop crying like a coward. The lifeboat is full and we are not in it. We are called to step aside and give our seat on the boat up.
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last and many who are last will be first. Matthew 19:29-30
And people say Christians are like sheep. Mirrors aren't that expensive.
