I Have No Money And I Must Scream

The recession is not going away anytime soon. Those who believe otherwise, and those who deny the current Great Depression 2.0 are miserably deluded. Your elected officials will not fix anything. Everybody with any power is only really serving private interests. The media (with its own liberal and conservative wings) is biased in all things. But look around you. See the businesses going under. See the buildings for sale. See the desperation, the rising crime rates all over the country. If we honestly knew the true statistics for unemployment and homelessness, there would be panic in the streets, and we can't have that. Better a slow death than a quick one.

So we raise the national debt ceiling, because the ten previous times we raised the national debt ceiling in the past decade clearly worked so well.

Let's allow the media to continue misrepresenting and downplaying how dire the circumstances truly are. We can already forget that our economic woes are the lone gunman in the ongoing global economic crises. Doing it again could not possibly make things worse.

So the southern states need billions in aid from the floods and tornado damages of recent weeks. Where can the money come from? Who cares, we can just ignore it ignore it ignore it. We would all much rather hear about Arnold's sexchild and Pippa's excellent British boobies.

The recession is not going away anytime soon. Play connect the dots with the many symptoms that surround us. Gross inflation of gas prices? Cutting federal funding to educational programming, like PBS and NPR? Cutting the NASA space program back into the realms of purely theoretical science? Shit, do you realize how many seriously long-running daytime soap operas are getting canned this year? Can we ignore that every industry is on the ropes, really?

There is no solution to this mess, as it took the entire history of our nation to build to this point. The recession is not going away anytime soon. The ONLY option left to us, is to learn to live without money. If you do what you love you cannot expect to get rich from the efforts, not anymore. If you think 40 hours of blue collar nonsense a week will continue to pay off your credit card debts, your mortgage loans, maybe even a down payment on whatever Bill Gates or Jerry Bruckheimer or Rupert Murdoch tells you to buy next, you are an idiot and you will be among the first to die off in the darker days soon to come. Reprogram yourself entirely. What are you living for? What and who matters to you? What will the future bring your way, and how can your actions and your actions alone effect that? Reap what YOU sow, damnit.

Because, the recession is not going away anytime soon. Which means, if you cannot resolve your own individual problems in this world, if you are waiting for your elected officials to magically grow a heart and a brain and a spine and suddenly cure your ills for you, then you may as well finish digging your own grave. It's what you've been doing slowly, every taxable season of your damned life.