Take Time to Smell the Flowers

So many other things stink.

Historically we're a hard-working, hard-playing nation that has had little time for smelling flowers, but the saying is still appropriate -- is it not a good idea to MAKE time in order to appreciate life? If we don't appreciate what we still DO have, what are we fighting for? But wait, who's fighting to make the nation a better place? Aren't most people too busy doing other things, like working, playing and watching people smell flowers on TV?

Would a 1900s American fight to stop this:
- 20% reduction in pay
- 25% reduction in home value
- Increase in rent costs
- 500% increase in the cost of milk

- 500% increase in the cost of produce

- Increased terror, violence and war, all for profit

??

The numbers may be inaccurate, but this what we're faced with today. I'm asking you, do we a fight IN us? How can we work hard for less money, play hard at a higher cost and now FIGHT while still smelling the flowers?

Our ancestors I think WOULD fight for that. They fought against being taxed and unrepresented. Do we have any fight left in us or put a fork in us, we're done? This is a challenge, not a statement of pessimism.

There are REASONS prices are going up and your pay is going down. Are you resigned to accept this?

I still like Barack Obama, but prior to him being elected, I wrote that liberals would be dissatisfied with his government, not because of any distrust in Barack Obama, but because I see our system in charge of our politicians, not our politicians in charge of our system. Sure, there are some differences between the parties and certainly between George Bush and Barack Obama, but liberals and conservatives need to realize our system wants little to do with fiscal conservatism, social programs or free markets.....unless MAYBE we fight HARD for those things. We can fight for the nominal difference between parties during elections, but now is the time to come together as a PEOPLE, OUTSIDE of the traditional channels of mainstream media and take back our nation. Is that even possible?



The Quiet Coup:Former IMF Chief Economist: The US is a Banana Republic:

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.

In other financial industry/organized crime news and just when you thought AIG couldn't be any more screwed up, Wayne Madsen, who was arrested/intimidated recently while working on this story, writes about AIG's airplane business and ties to Stanford and US covert ops.

Comments:
BlankPhotog said (re: WHO ARE WE?)...
"We live in a stacked set of petri dishes. Workplace culture, street culture, coffee house culture, art culture, shopping culture, road culture... bike culture. Most people have a hard enough time affecting one culture, let alone the whole stack. There's carryover. Spillover. Runoff. We let the bad people/culture/pathways fester, or reward them (both are as evil) and we get some bad germs/memes infecting the stack. We go the other way, and we get some kind of antibacterial cleansing. Nasty! But to embrace the notion that there's any kind of short term balance between these two may lead one to abandon the idea of cultural change. We're making the cultural poisons as we consume them, adapt to them, jam on them. They kill us; others take our/their place. Stronger, weaker, weirder. But are we weird enough? I think not."

Your Job:
Make time for "smelling the flowers", but if you don't also make time helping ween our government from the various powers that be, such as the financial industry, the result might be that the government seizes the flowers, privatizes them and then docks your paycheck everytime you want to smell them.