XPost: can.general, can.politics
From: sharx35@hotmail.com
"Canuck57" wrote in message
news:F_Fyn.137034$gF5.61927@newsfe13.iad...
> On 17/04/2010 7:01 PM, Sharx35 wrote:
>>
>>
>> "Canuck57" wrote in message
>> news:QEsyn.157104$0N3.12740@newsfe09.iad...
>>>
>>> In 2008 I decided I wasn't going to bust a hump to keep paying insane
>>> levels of taxation like a tax-slave sheeples. When it looked like
>>> Banks, GM, Chrysler & "friend of government" corporations were getting
>>> debt funded taxes, I just spun out. How can the buggers be worried
>>> about tooth paste at hospitals and pop so much on debtors, welshers
>>> and losers...
>>>
>>> So I decided to cut in half my annual work hours of the last 2 years.
>>> I now work a lot less. It feels good. Even have less stress from
>>> autos, only have one down from three. Pulled off 20 pounds, sleep
>>> better and eat better. Even had my wife leave work (she wanted too)
>>> and now get a juicy dependant deduction.
>>>
>>> It almost seems if you work 1/2 as hard, you get 3/4th of the net
>>> income. It even seems to go farther. Don't ask me how, it just does.
>>>
>>> Makes me wonder how many others are spinning out and getting off the
>>> government tax-slave tread mill. That is, opting out of the endless
>>> carrot chase.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Time to ask, is our government serving us or are we serving the
>>> government?
>>
>> Good points! It's amazing how many sheeple keep slaving awayto have the
>> BIGGEST and LATEST LCD/LED/Plasma TV, sound system (home or vehicle)
>> name brand clothes, bottled water (name brand) fancy, name-brand
>> store-bought coffee...and all the other bull shit.
>>
>> Most of the time family's do NOT **NEED** two incomes, they CHOOSE that
>> slavery lifestyle because they have bought into Marketing 101 bullshit.
>> Clue, it is NOT normal, for average people, to have a huge house and
>> pool, THat is a perk of the truly wealthy.
>
> Agreed. I just thank my stars that I never much subscribed to the
> debt-slavery cycle. Oh, I had debt but always functional debt like a
> home. Even then, I always worked to get the debt down and maintain a good
> cash flow. By the books old time conservative money management. I
> learned that from fishing chats with my grandfather, very wise man he was.
>
> But I see people take debt in like a drug. They always need more, and
> society as we have it today uses the marketing to motivate people towards
> debt slavery. To keep their pyramids of 3 autos, 4 TVs for 2 and iPods
> for all, they lost the ability to enjoy life.
>
> Saw one 18-22 year old lady on the c-train rat run, she held onto her
> blackberry like it was her whole freaking life and only smiled if she got
> a facebook message. Saw another where the battery died and you thought
> they were going to have a panic attack. I had one when they first came
> out, and I was glad to get rid of it when I could. Employer would email
> the M-F 8-5 staff on Saturday night at 9:30 and expect a response. Really
> got me thinking, we are well managed rats. My cell plan expires in
> September, I am not renewing. One more step off the treadmill.
>
> We are a well managed herd.
> --
My Telus cell plan costs $10 plus GST a month. Charges are 75 cents a
month for 911 access and 20 cents a minute for all calls. I am deactivating
that texting, a cursed nonessential. That $10 a month fee builds up...now
over $100 in credits on my account, I.e. 500 minutes available for calls,
local or long distance. The only original charge was $50 for the phone which
was negated by a $50 time credit. And, NO FUCKING CAMERA built in--what
bullshit. I usually have it turned off, except when one of us leaves the
house with it. Since we are either together or only 1 person away, only ONE
cell is needed. Frugal or what, eh?
> Time to ask ask, is our government serving us or are we serving the
> government?
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