XPost: can.general, can.politics   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   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.   
   --   
   Time to ask 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)