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Anti Federalist
06-26-2012, 10:14 PM
I come across something like this.

This is just one of a series of comments on Eric Peters' car blog site. (Which would sound just like mine, if I had one.)

Shep, another young man that has it figured out:

http://ericpetersautos.com/2012/06/24/lil-stinker-won-but-government-is-winning/


Oh believe me I’m GLAD about the housing crash. Houses are dirt cheap (comparatively) from what they were. It’s not entirely out of the scope for someone my age to save up and get a house now.

In response to the whole growing up thing. I didn’t mean to imply that any generation had it significantly easier, or denigrate your generation. I guess I was more criticizing the obscene school environments of today, more than being forced to grow up faster. Some generations had to worry about being pulled into a war they didn’t want to fight, for instance.

Civil liberty violations, extreme amounts of homework. I can remember falling asleep on a mountain of books on numerous nights. Six plus hours of homework every night kind of thing. That’s just the start of it.

If you were a loner, you were automatically pulled in for ‘counseling,’ because that wasn’t what they deemed normal. I myself went through that, as I used to be quite shy up until high school. Being deemed ADHD, I was also put on mind altering substances for a large percentage of my childhood.

We were treated like guinea pigs. Filled with drugs. The smart kids were forced to follow the crowd. That’s more an indictment on public education as a whole. The one size fits all approach doesn’t work. It also cannot work, because every human being is unique, and their needs in education are as well.

I gotta say I appreciate the compliment in saying I could probably handle a house repair. I do what I can. Always learning something new. My parents were baby boomers and have a real ‘do it yourself’ attitude, so that definitely rubbed off on me.

There’s a lot to be angry about with the state of our country. From insane taxes to the banks running amok, to endless wars of aggression that do not make us any safer, and only serve to further drive our country into debt.

Then you have a phony two party system that serves the interests of the few at the top at the expense of EVERYONE else. It’s like being asked what you want to drink and only being offered Coke or Pepsi. What if you want water? Or tea? Or an OJ? Nope, too bad. It’s Coke or Pepsi.

Also, treating corporations as though they are people, allowing effectively unlimited campaign donations.. Sometimes you just have to take a step back and breathe, otherwise you’ll become too angry to focus on the root causes of the problems.

I firmly believe there are three root causes to these problems. 1) Money backed by absolutely nothing, or to be more accurate, backed by debt. 2) Apathy. People are generally, especially today, too tired when they get home to protest or speak up, thanks in part to how hard they have to work to make ends meet. It’s enough trouble to keep the bills paid without having to write a letter to someone, who will most likely never read it, or fail to address in any real capacity your grievances. Combine that with the reality TV debacle, and any lack of real creativity in the media we see day to day, and it produces a sterile, servile populace that exists only to do as little as possible because of how out of whack the whole system is. Finally, root cause 3) the intervention in almost every aspect of your life by government. Because somebody has to get paid to do all this regulating and controlling, there’s a significant tax burden, taking away from TRULY essential services, and instead pushing them into ‘services’ which serve to benefit only those in power, by helping them look good and get re-elected.

Again, sorry to ramble. I type too much, I swear. I hope I covered everything, and thanks for the reply!

Shep

Anti Federalist
06-26-2012, 10:17 PM
Lo and behold, Hal writes:


Hal on June 26, 2012 at 5:40 am
Im 19, working full time as a composites specialist straight out of high school. I planned using my 11.50 an hour to build up my ’77 chevrolet nova into a track/street car and also to modernize my ’89 S10 (best damn wheelbarrow I ever bought).

Unfortunately my careless driving and the Seattle rain has gotten me into two fender benders in the past year. No serious damage was caused in either one, nor was anyone hurt. In the real world the repairs for each crash would have been probably no more than $500-$750 for materials and labor. That I could have payed out of pocket and been done with it. But in the mandated (forced) world of insurance, each accident cost more than 5 grand a piece (both the insurance companies and collision shops love it). I am now stuck with a $500 monthly payment.

I can lower that down to the $200s but I still have to factor in the monthly costs for gas, food, car repairs, my engineering projects, and of course all of my state certified slave-tags. That leaves very little money left for project cars, or even just living day to day.

If we werent being totally raped by the weimar/zimbabwe style inflation I would be starting my own hot-rodding R&D company right now. I would be trying to create local jobs while also working to developing new technology for DIY hot-rodders like me. But instead I have to “pay my fair share” so Mr Bernanke and Lord Rothschild will have the grace to let me live another day.

ShowMeLiberty
06-27-2012, 05:37 AM
The freedom generation is coming. We older folks just have to keep truth-telling however, whenever, wherever we can so they don't lose sight of the goal.

fisharmor
06-27-2012, 06:44 AM
and of course all of my state certified slave-tags
I am so using this.

God bless the internet.
When I was 19, I could tell that I wrote noticeably better than my peers.
But my writing wasn't as good as that kid's.
And we all know he didn't pick that up in school.

coastie
06-27-2012, 06:54 AM
The freedom generation is coming. We older folks just have to keep truth-telling however, whenever, wherever we can so they don't lose sight of the goal.

I fear their brain-dead peer outnumber them, I come into far more contact with the zombies than not.

NoOneButPaul
06-27-2012, 07:05 AM
I fear their brain-dead peer outnumber them, I come into far more contact with the zombies than not.

So true... our generation is not as great as everyone makes it out to be (you can blame us for Obama, btw).

The one thing going for us is the younger generation is filled with soft supporters open to the ideas of Ron Paul... soft support is huge.

whippoorwill
06-27-2012, 07:27 AM
Thanks I needed that.

coastie
06-27-2012, 07:34 AM
So true... our generation is not as great as everyone makes it out to be (you can blame us for Obama, btw).

The one thing going for us is the younger generation is filled with soft supporters open to the ideas of Ron Paul... soft support is huge.

As a current student in "college" for the past two years, I can recall maybe 2....2 people 18-22 that showed signs of brain wave activity. Scary and sad, all at once.

jbauer
06-27-2012, 09:38 AM
And its any wonder that 60% of college grads are un or under employed


As a current student in "college" for the past two years, I can recall maybe 2....2 people 18-22 that showed signs of brain wave activity. Scary and sad, all at once.

ShowMeLiberty
06-27-2012, 10:46 AM
I fear their brain-dead peer outnumber them, I come into far more contact with the zombies than not.



So true... our generation is not as great as everyone makes it out to be (you can blame us for Obama, btw).

The one thing going for us is the younger generation is filled with soft supporters open to the ideas of Ron Paul... soft support is huge.

It's not that the majority of the younger generation is awake and liberty-minded, it's that any measurably significant number exists at all. This is not the case with the older generations and that is why so much of our hope is placed on the millennials.