Ok, I had a busy week. A couple days in Dubai for some work related stuff and I am back home resting on the couch whilst surfing the net for home flavored Internet info and reminders that this is temporary and that I haven’t lost my friends but I have just taken a long term business trip away. Been on nights and I am waaay outta whack. Can you actually be “In Whack”? Anyway, I was kinda feeling a bit displaced this week and it caught up with me a few days ago. I’m good now as I have beaten the feelings of what am I doing here down with a quick look at my bottom line. There’s more to my makeup than that but I see a goal of being able to couch surf or do cool stuff when I get free of my bills.
Today is a day in limbo. Kind of like a time out for being “bad”. What’s that you ask? What did I do…well….I bought things. Mostly things I don’t need but really wanted and some stuff I did need. I was a victim of my own desires and the costs of living. I watched the TV ads for the cars and other cool gadgets and thought I could use a cool car and a new fridge….actually I love cool cars and that hasn’t changed but the fridge…it was dying anyway. So here I am paying for the cost of the purchases of those things and a few more and a chance to regain my handle on the American dream. I know the economy is rough right now and the thought of the “American dream” sounds a bit hokey to most but I do think that while we have a lot to learn and repair in our collective thinking, I might be able to manage with no bills and a fair paying job. I will just have to shift my house payment money to buying gasoline and compensating for the additional cost of products because the oil industry is out of control. I mean come on, we are not stupid and when oil companies post record profits and people are out of jobs in record numbers because of the cost of commuting, it’s kinda obvious. We are getting screwed by the free oil market and have no real choice but to drive to the fuel station and buy more of the liquid gold so we can keep working to pay for our house and other needed items like….food and heat. Collectively as a nation we are too stupid to actually find a true common ground and unite and take a stand against much of anything because we just fight each other. We are truly a disorganized Army that is still a cash rich resource to the oil industry and until they distill every dollar from us that they can it will not stop because to them, we are a Folgers nation…good to the last drop. The fighting has caused the demise of so much of what we once were as a great nation. We don’t produce much of anything of any value that doesn’t get regulated to death by our own peers. They would rather stop successful product production. We are buying so much of what we have by countries that actually realize that you must do certain things that may not be in harmony with the green movement in order to get things done.
That being said, I have confirmed for myself in my time out on the couch (and then some) that since I cannot convince the right people to do things that would actually bring back jobs to this country and put a lid on oil costs, I must adapt. So I am here working in a place where I can earn enough to pay my bills off and become free of the banking industry that is master to so many. Did you ever wonder why that little plastic card is labeled “Master Card”? Once that part of my plan is complete, I can then use the money I save to pay for the fuel related expenses that are part of the cost of living. It’s not going to change and we can cry about it forever but it is not going to change. There is no magic bean or oil reserve in existence that will save us all. The Strategic Oil reserve is for the Military in time of war anyway. It’s not to be the “Poison pill” to the oil companies. “Poison Pill”? We could have one but we are too earth friendly/human-unkind and the Oil nations to rich to feel the much of the effects anyway. If we did it might not be too hard to do. We stock up on our own oil by working against the market. When it gets to expensive, we release our own oil into the U.S. Market ONLY. None of this giving it to other countries crap…no! we dug it up it’s ours. Period. But alas…I am but just a working class peasant, what do I know?
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