Less Is More

Please read and give this some thought....

Have you ever heard the expression less is more? Often times I think this expression is overlooked or not understood by many Americans. Why? Because we, as citizens of the free world, are selfish. We are greedy. We, as a WHOLE, don't know what it's like to go without. We have no clue.



Just the other day, I was sitting in my morning class, waiting for the teacher to begin when I overheard a discussion in a small group of girls next to me. What caught my attention was that one of the young women was ecstatic that gas was dropping and she filled up for 3.09$. Another girl chimed in about how she filled up for just over 30$, and then there was a pause...and the third girl said you guys are morons. How in the world can you be happy to fill up for 30$. Gas is still ridiculous. When I heard this I was thrown off because while gas is by no means considered "cheap", I'll remind you that a year ago today, gas was 2.80$. Not a whole lot less than what it is today and in fact, is probably the same in some places across the country.


Well come to find out, this spoiled little individual who's identity I'll keep under wraps was upset because it STILL costs over 50$ to fill up her nice, shiny, black, decked out, 2007 HUMMER......


Am I the only one that sees an astounding problem here... first of all what is this 18 or 19 year old girl doing driving a HUMMER, and second of all, why is someone who apparently has the "nicest car" of all 3 the one complaining???


I nabbed one of her friends after class and asked her, hey whats up with that girl?? why's she complaining so much, she must not be suffering too much if she drives an H3. She said well that's just the way she is. She and her family also has a half of a million dollar house on the beach and her parents are a lawyer and doctor. By this time my cage was officially rattled and I felt like someone stuffed me in the washing machine and let the spin cycle go on and on and on because I couldn't comprehend what I was hearing. Come to further find out, this girl doesn't pay any bills, doesn't even pay for her own gas, doesn't pay for school, doesn't pay for food or rent, doesn't have a mortgage....basically living life from mom and dad's wallet. Which is completely fine. I understand that it takes SOME people a while to become independent and to completely cut that chord from being spoon fed. But to be the one complaining without no true burdens of life amazes me. I also found out that all three girls have a job, but only one works because well...shes bored...and needs money to go SHOPPING on her days off. I'll let common sense tell you which girl that one was ; ).



Look folks....I'm not saying that having money is a bad thing. I'm not saying that mom and dad helping out is a bad thing. I'm not saying that driving a nice car, is a bad thing. But isn't it INCREDIBLY ironic that the only girl out of the three to complain, and constantly does, is the girl who has the most?! Take a look at China or India. Now there's two countries that are growing rapidly and started from ground zero the same way we did. However they continue to flow in and out of the United States because we are the land of "freedom," the land of "opportunity" where we encourage success. But why do you think the number of young men and women who graduate college is MILLIONS more in both India and China than it is in America. Why do you think it is that when you get a boo boo or your tummy hurts and you go to the doctor that 90% of the time it's a doctor who has a foreign last name. The days of Dr. Smith, Dr. Williams, or Dr. McDREAMY are gone people. Why? Because in India and China, they don't have the opportunity we have here. They don't desire to live the Hollywood life style that is adored in America. Because in America, everything is handed to us on a silver platter. Things you and I take for granted day in and day out that many of them can't even DREAM of because they don't even know it exists. In America kids aren't taught the value of a hard work ethic or what its like to be said "no" to. As a matter of fact, in my mind, family values and beliefs have gone straight down the shitter. Everyone wants the easy way out. Screw the bumpy back roads, I'm taking the interstate where I can use cruise control. Guess what, in India and China they don't know what it's like to live life on the freeway. They don't know what cruise control is because it was never instilled or implicated in their traditional values. The same traditional values written in our Bill of Rights and Constitution that we have distorted for years. Why do you think our unemployment rate has been high in the past? Why do you think more and more kids don't even WANT to go on to further their education in college. It's because we're LAZY. It's not because there isn't money or grants to help kids go to school. It's not because there's no jobs. It's because we Americans are too lazy to go find those grants for school...we're too lazy to go find those jobs that you know what, may not pay 6 figures right now but by God, you can WORK your way up. It's extremely ironic how some of the happiest and most giving people in the WORLD, are the same people who work a minimum wage job every day so that they can feed their families and maybe, MAYBE, go out once a month. It's amazing...and I've met some of these people. I met a family over the summer who's 3 girls were being taken care of by their grandmother, one girl with autism. Their parents had left them and their grandfather had just passed away the previous year. Their grandmothers only source of income was by taking care of a woman in a hospice type environment, where the family also had to go and stay because they couldn't afford to pay the heating bill in the coldness of winter. Yet, when you look at these 4 women, you see a sparkle and desire that is unlike no other. A passion that you don't see in the doctor living down the street or the pharmacist across the road, or the selfish little twit that lives life FOR FREE and drives a Hummer. Through all their hard times and all the diversity they've faced, they've stood up and beaten the odds 9 times out of 10. The girls might not wear designer clothes, when they get to be older and can drive they might not drive a newest car, and they might not get the opportunity to attend an elite institution after high school. But the love, and the passion they have for breathing and living each day, is indescribable and to be honest, I envy...



Relating to the election: You know, no matter how you twist and turn it whether it's Barack Obama going to Harvard without knowledge of how his "middle class family" paid for it, or Cindy McCain's family's success and why the McCain's own the properties they own, I can't stress enough how important this election is. In January of 2009, there will be one of two things that takes place. Either we, as a country, will stand up, and while things might not be handed to us on a silver platter and we might actually have to do some work for ourselves to get back on our feet, in the long run will be stronger than we've EVER been. Simply by asking our Federal Government to protect us, our rights, and the Constitution. OR, under Senator Obama....in January, we will continue to be spoon fed and let the government tell us how we will live...and I'm not exaggerating..you think life is tough now? Imagine the government telling you how to do EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING each and ever day....the people who have worked their tail ends off for the money they've earned or position they've been raised to will be punished....the people who are lazy will be cradled by the government and told it's okay, we'll take care of you...and our employment rate will plummet farther than it ever did under George Bush because anyone who has a brain knows when the large corporations that keep our economy from hitting rock bottom are taxed, they have to compensate for the loss. What do they do? raise prices and cut personnel. Now YOU as an American citizen have to ask yourself not what's best right now. Not what will be best for this upcoming spring, but 2 years from now, 4 years from now. Which way of life will help us to reload and stand up taller than we ever have in the future. While free money and distribution of wealth might sound good now...think about what it will do for your children's careers and living in the future. The desire to earn more money and to work harder will vanish. After all, if it is the successful ones that are the ones being punished, why desire to do more, earn more, be more. What's incredible to me is how our country, the one that is considered the GREATEST of all countries and the "FREE WORLD", is the same country, who starting in January 2009 is thinking about making being successful, not free anymore....We will suffer....people from across the globe will no longer look at us as the place they desire to live and work because why go to school and be given a wonderful opportunity just to have all the hard work and success taken away from you. Just so that those who DON'T work hard and DON'T give a damn can benefit from it. Can you say a socialistic destruction of America? because that's exactly what it will be. Just remember, what YOU benefit from today, can destroy the futures of tomorrow.