Someone Needs To Explain This One To Me

Our President was on T.V. last night trying to explain why he and Our Senate and Congress are pushing through the biggest bail out package since the great depression. He explained and explained....and I sat there and listened....and what it amounted to basically is: they are going to use the tax payer's money to bail out their wealthy Investment Banker buddies on Wall Street! It's going to work something like this (In A Perfect World): They are going to take $700 Billion Dollars (No One Knows From Where), and buy up a bunch of investment securities from the investment banks and hold them until the stock market recovers enough where they can re-sale them at a profit. In the meantime this is going to free up the investment banks to make more loans and investments to wealthy business persons....so that they will have more options to make investments, open new businesses, and provide jobs to stimulate the economy! (And Then We All Will Live Happily Ever After!) EXCEPT....These are the same wealthy investment banker CEO's and wealthy business persons that have been making all of these bad investment decisions for the last decade!!! What a bunch of suckers the American Tax Payers are to let this happen! I have a little money in the local community bank....in a checking and savings account and it is insured. If I don't run my family budget correctly or if something happens in the economy....you know, like everything going up for the last 5 years from food to utilities to gasoline....I have to start using up my savings to pay my bills. Then if things don't get better and no additional income comes in....I have to drain my accounts and start selling things! Then if things continue to go bad....I go broke....and eat peanut butter sandwiches at my Parents home...if they are surviving....this is the way of a free market economy. IF YOU MAKE BAD INVESTMENTS AND THE ECOMONY GOES BAD....YOU LIE, STEAL, CHEAT, SHORT SALE STOCKS, AND DO ANYTHING UNDER THE SUN TO MAKE A BUCK....YOU SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO STAND ON THE BACK OF THE TAX PAYERS IN ORDER TO GET BAILED OUT AND GET BIG SEVERANCE PACKAGES WORTH MORE MONEY THAN MOST OF US WILL EVER SEE IN FIVE LIFETIMES!!! YOU SHOULD GO BROKE....AND BE BANNED FROM WALL STREET OR ANY OTHER BANKING BUSINESS.....HELL, I DON'T KNOW MAYBE YOU COULD SALE USED CARS OR SOMETHING....BUT YOU SHOULD NEVER BE TRUSTED WITH LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY AGAIN!!! So....Someone needs to help me understand what our Government is about to do....because, I just don't get it! We live in a free market economy....if you make bad investments....they come back to haunt you....hell, you may even get prosecuted....but you don't get given $700 Billion Dollars and told to try it again!!! What the Fuck!!! Sorry about my language, but I cannot help but be upset....and all of you out there should be too!!!

The Birthday

Another Year has passed me by....and still I have to question why? What kind of Man have I become? All of my life I've spend in search of myself and I'm still in the dark because I cannot seem to find the light alone! Ten Thousand people pass by my way....but they can't see they way that I feel.....Nobody even cares to try. I sell my soul and spend my life on the ropes....and I'm still in the dark because I cannot seem to find the light alone! Sometimes I feel like a man in the wilderness.....like a lonely soldier off to war! I'm sent away to die....never quite knowing why. I know....it makes no sense at all! Sometimes I feel like a man in the wilderness.....like a lonely sailor out to sea! I'm drifting with the tides....never quite knowing why. I know....it makes no sense at all! ----Dennis DeYoung

To Be Content With Life

Almost 32 years ago I left home to make my way in life...seek my fortune...broaden my horizons...make my name in the world. You have so many dreams and ambitions when you are young...so many directions you may go...so many new experiences and ideas; and you think you have so much time to accomplish the things you want to accomplish! I have learned a few things in all these years that have passed since I went out into the world...picked up on a few of the more important facets of life. We spend so much time looking away...towards the future...what we will do tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now...that today seems to get lost in the shuffle of it all! I believe that you have to learn to be content with what you have today...because when today is gone...it is gone forever! You have to be content with the small things. Seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. You need to respect yourself and feel like your are worthy of others respect. I want to be wealthy in family, loved ones, and friends...this is more important to me than the riches the world has to offer. I believe in thinking quietly, talking gently, and acting frankly and with purpose. I believe it is more important to listen than to talk! Listen with your heart and mind open....and your mouth closed! Don't Gossip! A lie can travel around the world...while the truth is still putting on it's shoes! Try to do all bravely, wait for proper occasions, and never be in a hurry. Let your spiritual side come through almost unconsciously...and smile...Life is good and everyday above the ground is a good day!!! Slow down and enjoy all the small things that most people ignore! Your Life should be a Symphony.....Not a Fricken Rock Concert!!!