The Economy & Our Complicity.

I’m really, really tired of all this talk about how bad the economy sucks. You’re right it does. But it’s our fault too. And while an inept president may have tipped us further in this direction, we should carry the blame as well. We’re the ones who bought more house than we can afford. We’re the ones who carry multiple credit lines with us. We’re the ones who mortgaged our future for a piece of paper that says we’re educated. Our system is broken. When my tax dollars go to bailing out big businesses and financial brokers and mortgage companies with shady CEOs and Boards of Directors, it’s time to say enough is enough. When they get fired for their “indiscretions” and get to walk away with huge severance packages and new jobs somewhere else repeating their same mistakes, it’s time to say enough is enough. When Wal-Mart moves into my neighborhood and gets tax breaks handed to them on a silver platter and someone else to wipe their ass, while I bend over and take it from Uncle Sam, it’s time to say enough is enough.

We are complicit in our silence and our apathy. I think it’s time for a noisy holy rage that turns the tables and exposes them for what they are. I think it’s time for a quiet resistance that lives as if the government is irrelevant. I think it’s time to opt-out.

Watch this quick 45 second video (ht: Compassion in Politics Blog)

I don’t want to hear another conservative bitch about our education system when they’re financing 720 million dollars a day for the Iraq War. I don’t want to hear another conservative bitch about our falling economy when they’re financing 720 million dollars a day for the Iraq War. Enough is enough. There couldn’t be a larger contradiction than that. You can’t eat your cake and have it to.

Is there any surprise why the dollar is worth so little overseas? When you have to print 720 million a day the value tends to go down really quickly. You can call me a hippie. You can call me a liberal. But I just think it’s really sad when the “conservative” becomes the “liberal” and the “liberal” become the “conservative”. And it’s even sadder that we’ve somehow forgotten just how provocative and changing Jesus actually is.