Journal the_mad_poster's Journal: American Crybabies 28

So Choicepoint and Lexus Nexus gather your personal data, then thieves steal it and use it to steal your money. Good deal. That's this honest capitalist principle in action, folks.

The president is one of the most dishonest, disingenious, and belligerent ones we've had in quite some time. I'm still waiting on those WMDs that were supposedly threatening the possibility of a "mushroom cloud", the 9/11 Iraqi terrorists that seem to have evaporated, Osama Bin Laden's head, an explanation of how, exactly, adding more costs to teh social security system is going to fix the problem that is dwarfed by comparison to Medicare's fiasco, and the economy that "picked up" three years ago after "the shortest recession in history" to actually start picking up rather than just sort of stumbling along like a drunken sailor.

It's tax season again, and I"m reminded of how much I give and how little I get by the enormous potholes in the road. Here's my route to work:

Rt. 194, state road - I have to skip a good five hundred foot chunk of it or so because the edge of the road is so bad that it pulls my car hard toward the curb if I don't drive in the double yellow.

Golf Course Road - coming down over the blind hill I have to, again, drive in the center of the road for the same reason.

Rt. 15 - here's the thing, the road itself isn't that bad, but the traffic patterns are shit. I had to sit at three lights on that road this morning, then drive on the curb the last 1000 feet or so to my exit because it was all backed up.

Then it's five more red lights to my workplace, all the while dodging raised manhole covers and car-eating potholes.

Other than an imperialist chest-thumping in the middle east, which I don't support in the least, I'm not quite sure what, exactly, it is that I get from paying my taxes, other than poorer. And I love all these people who are like "but the rich pay soooo much of their taxes". No, actually, they don't. The richer you are, the more loopholes and deductions you get to exploit. If you take your time to exploit the tax code when you're rich, you can actually wind up paying less than people like me do.

Because that's how it works in America. The rich get richer and they do it by shaking down the poor. Reference: Wal Mart, which is currently trying to remake its well deserved image of black-hearted satanic destroyer into "not so bad, maybe eat a puppy sometimes" corporation.

I don't really get why. The congenitally brain-damaged inbreds I typically see shopping at Wal Mart when I'm forced to go there, generally by other people, probably don't have the cognitive wherewithall to understand the terribly complicated concept of "if you pay less money for what you buy, the employees get less money, and you help create a poorer class which causes stores like Wal Mart to lower prices further so that you can pay less money which....". I highly doubt their dimly-lit bulbs are bright enough for them to see the more complex impact that Wal Mart's sprawl and poor ethics has on the larger economy as a whole, or individual areas.

Moving on, I like car insurance, great concept. It's almost as if some thug one day decided "hey... you know... if I could get states to pass a law REQUIRING people to get mugged by me on a yearly basis, I could make a killing". I've used car insurance ONCE. One time it was useful to me. And it wasn't my insurance company that paid because I didn't cause the accident. However, even though I didn't cause the accident, if I switch companies, I get a worse premium for five years. Why? Because some stupid kid who was supposed to be in school and didn't stop at the end of a driveway clocked me? Great. Thanks capitalism. The insurance company mugs me for my wallet and they get laws requiring it to happen. I mug someone and I'll go to jail.

Then there's the fact that everybody except me is an idiot. What's the deal with that anyway? Like the idiot woman in the silver Accord this morning who decided to change lanes behind me inches from my bumper as I started to after waiting for a clearing and using my signal? Why isn't it legal to pull these people from their vehicles and beat them to a pulp on the curb, then throw the passengers from an overpass? I'd LOVE to see someone do something stupid like that and crash and be thrown through the windshield. You'll hear me on a 911 tape someday laughing my ass off as I phone it in.

And then there's the SUV people. I'm going to say it whether it offends you or not. Here goes. If you bought an SUV, and you:

a) Get less than 80 inches of snow per year / live in a remote location or
b) Aren't emergency personnel / someone who needs to be able to move 24/7/365
c) Don't FREQUENTLY haul more than four people

Then you are:

a) A helpless, crybaby moron who can't drive for shit or
b) A vacuous yuppy with no redeeming qualities trying to fit in based on the type of vehicle you drive
c) Too stupid to realize you could've bought a roomy, comfortable car for the same price.

I base this on the fact that:

a) I live in Central PA and missed exactly 0 days of work and 0 appointments due to snow this winter, driving a Mustang GT.
b) If you can call off, you have no reason to drive an SUV
c) Even if you fit the criteria above, you can just buy an AWD car and you'll do just as well.

Oh "wah wah" your persecuted. Yea? Too bad. Boo hoo for you. YOU chose to drive it, YOU chose to piss more competent people off, it's YOUR problem that you have to deal with them.

That's another thing. What's with this attitude whereby if you piss someone off because of something you did, it's wrong for people to be pissed off at you? You don't have the RIGHT to not be pissed off, so go sit on a flagpole and spin. YOU chose to buy the SUV that is tailgating me or blocking my view. YOU deal with the backlash. YOU chose to blow cigarette smoke at me, YOU deal with it when I push you off the sidewalk to get upwind.

If YOU are the fucking asshole and you cause OTHER people to be assholes as a result, it's YOUR FAULT. Shut your stupid yap and piss off. If you don't want people pissing on you, don't invite it. If you can't be a reasonable, considerate member of society, then you won't get treated like one, so go cry to someone else, I don't care. I'm not your mommy, and I'm not hear to croon to you when you do something stupid and get yelled at for it.

Bunch of fucking crybabies. "Oh boo hoooooo". the_mad_poster yelled at me wah wah. Grow a fucking spine and yell back if you think you can, otherwise, accept that you don't have a position other than "just do it my way because I say so" and piss off.