Posted on 03/15/2012 6:20:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is what decadence is: pampered children squandering their inheritance as a large percentage of the population.
When they find themselves in the gutter they wonder what happened.
Only the wisest can prevail over the temptations of luxury.
The rest wind up in the gutter--angry, worthless, groveling, depraved, wallowing in their own stupidity, blaming everyone and everything except themselves and their own stupidity and self-indulgence--and "occupying" somethingorother.
Or can get someone else to pay...
The disease is so enmeshed in our culture, I don’t hold any hope for the individual scale solution. A system-wide crash is about all I can see fixing the problem.
In other words: stupid people.
But we have always known that these people were stupid. If they were not stupid, they would not have embarked on such foolishness in the first place.
"The once-utopian visions of 1970s California — "
I love that!
The once-utopian visions" were doomed from the start by DELUSIONS! SCORN OF TRUTH! Hubris and denial! The stuff of tragedy!
It's always horrible when truth comes crashing down on the delusional!
And the greater the delusion, the greater the resistance to truth! And the greater the tragedy when truth finally shatters the delusions!
What a joke! And every page of history is a blueprint that could have prevented all this!
"whom can Californians blame but themselves?"
No one, of course. But recognizing this requires TRUTH.
And do not expect these delusional fools to confront TRUTH! They will find something or someone to blame for their plight. Fiction is no problem for them.
FOOLS!
Students aren’t and most parents cannot which is why the huge loan balances and people betting these government loans will be forgiven and they are more right then wrong.
Ugh—they are going to tax us for everything.
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