fucking pessimists

Or rather - fuck pessimists. How tired I am of hearing about how "bad things are today" or "hard things are". I'm just sick of it.

Do these people realize how pathetic they are? Seriously? Let's traverse the annals for a sec. The Jews, ummmm... you pick the century. The Christians say circa, Coliseum. Blacks - 1640's to well, today really. Presidential hopeful and all. Hell, let's throw in the Neanderthals for their entire time on Earth...holy crap they are extinct and had a larger brain mass than, well - you.

Honestly and retrospectively compare your situation with any of them. I dare you. You chicken shit i-can't-do-it whiner. You pit your life's turmoil with these cats and I bet we can be sure of one thing - your life is pretty rosy.

Now I know that I am making some very wide generalizations. I am certain that you have now proclaimed me to be an insensitive heartless, conservative, war-mongering bastard. Let me set the record straight - that is very, very close to the truth. But only when it comes to about 90% of the developed world. The other 10% - I would give my life for. Period.

One trillion dollars. Write it out this way - $1,000,000,000,000. Or this $1x10 11. Would you like to be able to use scientific notation to reduce the time it takes to scribe your net worth? I bet ya would. What would you do? Cars, planes, houses...a small south eastern asian island? Let's put it in terms we can really use though. Let's say that we can instead have a $500,000 loan for the cost of a $250,000 loan. Let's let some banker 'talk' us into signing the dotted line - forty six times. (Can we get some kind of loan-paperwork-reduction act passed by the way). Let's fill it with $50,000 of furniture and crap that you throw on you platinum card. Let's park your 18mpg, $42,000 car in the three car garage. You, your wife and son will be very happy in you 3,000 sq. ft mcMansion. You 90%.

Greed is ridiculous - and currently at all time highs. Our economy needs to collapse. People should loose everything. Middle class and upper class alike. Screw the lower class because they're about to find out what being broke really means - no more handouts. Let's throw this thing back to the 1640's - minus any slavery and with a black president. On a side note - when the fuck did it become wrong to call someone who is black, black??? Blacks refer to 'white' people. I don't give a crap and I don't have a single black friend that gives a fuck. If you're not racist then it would never cross your mind that it was even an issue. Please do not start referring to me as anglo-american. I was born here - I am American. Back to point - so let's throw this whole experiment back to the good ol' days. Back when 95% of the money really was with 5% of the population. Here's the caveat - we don't lose technology, we don't lose global warming but we do lose CNN and Fox News. We get to vote on the 5% who keep the bucks. Straight vote no electoral college, no hanging chads. Write three names on a blank piece of paper and throw it in a hat. Obama, McCain, Nader and Castro pick tally the votes.

Here's what happens. Innovation, efficiency and true intelligence. You would be surprised what you come up with when you're not worried about paying that $500,000 mortgage but rather where your next meal is coming from.

I'm a 10 percent'r. I would love a million dollars. I'd pay every bill I have off. I'd buy a house - with a mortgage and 20% down. My credit sucks and I could use a good long term loan. I'd set aside a good 20 to 25% aside for personal investment. Then I would take the remaining three-quarter million or so and help people. I'm not talking about donations either. I'm talking about creating the core of a business that is focused on help. Using my skills and intelligence and not relying on someone else to fund their initiatives and plans. I'd build a company to make money based on that singular goal. Helping. We would profit too. Run that baby with a strong capitalist hand. Use the market. Find loopholes. Put those 90 percenter's out of business.

And then, every night, I would go to sleep with a satisfaction that few in this world today feels. A greedless soul. I would be content with being happy. I would die happy. And my legacy would be that I gave more than I kept. Nothing more. I would die a ten percent'r.

If you're still here then maybe you feel it. Maybe you don't even know why - but it just feels right. So listen to me a bit longer. I am not wealthy. I am not a republican, a liberal, a war-monger, an environmentalist and I am not pius. I am simply for what is 'right'. It has taken years of doing wrong and doing people wrong to come to this realization but it is not fueled by guilt. My fuel is the knowledge that right is right, black is black, white is white and we couldn't even see without both of them and every color in between.

So stop bitching to me. Stop asking for handouts. Be intelligent. Be the reason that God (your God) put you on this planet or the reason evolution gave you hindsight - and opposable thumbs. But most importantly - be something to someone else. Hell, at least nine others.

90% of you would.