Tuesday, January 30, 2007
It ain't fair...
These people won the fucking Powerball. You believe that? I think they are from like Missouri or one of those other square states. It just don't seem right. The husband is like 80 something and the wife is damn near 80. Even their kids are in their 50's. Somehow that don't seem fair.
They got to be part of that whole "Greatest Generation" thing. Isn't that enough for them. Hell, if the baby boomers and their parents had taken a little better care of this country it wouldn't be in the shit hole it is in now. It is now up to the future generations to try to pay back the enormous national debt, to clean up the environment, and in general try to make a go of it as the bloated tick that is the so-called Greatest Generation falls over and dies, gorged on the promises of the future.
If you think I am wrong, I bet you that those people who won the Powerball will still collect Social Security. And if you asked them why, they would say they are "entitled" to it.
Entitled.
Am I not entitled to be able to afford a house and car while working forty hours a week? I will never be able to have the American dream on 20,000 dollars a year. It doesn't matter how hard I save, how much I scrimp, or what sacrifices I make. Unless I spend my day working 15 to 20 hours a day I will never have that dream. Is that America?
Thirty years ago woman started going to work for Equality. Now, unless both parents work can anyone do more then "get by"? How is that? How is it that their are more millionaires and billionaires and yet the poor are still poor and in fact just about as poor as they have ever been? How is it is this rich country 90% of the people are two paychecks from homelessness? Does any of this make sense?
Do you see why I don't find it "cute" or "right" or "just desserts" that these old people are winning all this money? Their lives are behind them. The money will just go to rotten grandchildren and children who are damn near seniors themselves. Maybe I am just bitter? Jealous? Probably but I have to have something to write about, don't I?
On a tangent, here is the new Miss America. Just a whole lot of, eh? She's pretty but just like most of those beauty contestants, she is probably like twenty something but because of the surgery that they have and the kind of girls the judges are looking for, she looks like she is thirty. She just looks plastic. I like girls with curves. Real girls. Not plastic. Not fake. Plus, now that I think about it, she is kind of cut huh? I mean, look at that six pack, those thigh muscles and arms. Shit she must bench like 220. That cracks me up. Maybe next year they should include a competition like on "The World Strongest Man". The winner of the pageant can be the chick who can pull a tractor trailer two hundred yards in the least time. I think I would actually watch that if it was done in a bikini. Laterzzz...
