XPost: can.general, can.politics   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 18/04/2010 3:54 PM, Sharx35 wrote:   
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   > "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?   
      
   You have a good plan.  Camera in mine actually had one use.  I was in a   
   parking lot and some idiot hit me from behind.  So I took pictures   
   including his face.  Once he saw me snap, didn't look like they were   
   going to run.  Saved me taking any blame, as the chimp said it was my   
   fault. *I was in forward motion.  Showed that to the insurance people   
   and they sent his insurance company the bill.   
      
   But ass for the rest of the features, they are truly useless and mine   
   does not allow me to turn it off.  Every 4 or so months I seem to hit   
   the connect button by mistake and get the 50 cent charge.  Seems like it   
   was put just there for accidental connects to the Internet.  Really irks   
   me.  And my plan isn't as good as yours.   
      
   But good go on your plan.  Mine is up in Aug/Sept and plan to cancel.   
   Will be $0 after that.   
      
   --   
   Time to ask, is our government serving us or are we serving the government?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)