Why Americans FAIL

I was driving my kid to school this morning, doing 50 mph down a local street that's posted 55. Some a-hole, behind me since we were stopped at the stop light, decides he's not getting his money's worth at five miles an hour under the speed limit. His solution? Ride my ass.

Now, this is a two lane road, mind you. This jackass could have switched lanes and gone around me any time he wanted. But, no, the law says 55 and I was only doing 50. I had to pay.

For those of you light on math, the stretch of road we were traveling is almost exactly one mile long (he turned and followed me up Mooney Boulevard, so we both traveled exactly the same distance down Goshen Avenue from the stop light). At 50 mph, we covered that distance in 72 seconds. That a-hole wanted to go that extra five miles per hour. The difference? At 55, we would have covered that mile in 66 seconds, a gain of 6 seconds.

Oh, yeah, that's worth riding my ass and risking the lives of me, him and our passengers. Moron.

Now, how does this spell the end of the American dream? Let's call it the 8 percent idiocy. That idiot risked all for a gain of 8 percent efficiency, and Americans do stupid things like that all the time.

How many women have abortions? Less than one percent. Yeah, let's have a fit about that.

How many people are using evil drugs? A hair over 8 percent. Yeah, let's lock up one out of every 99 Americans over that.

How many Americans have died at the hands of terrorists on US soil? About 3,000, about 0.00001 percent of the population. Yeah, let's spend a trillion dollars and make war on two seperate fronts and kill hundreds of thousands of people over that.

Americans are arrgoant idiots who overreact to minor threats, who waste our energy on the margins, and that's why we fail.

You people deserve it

Americans are getting exactly what they deserve. Ha-fucking-ha. Fuck all of you greedy, fat, self-righteous, ignorant sons-of-bitches. This is the reality you’ve made for yourselves. I am so glad that I have dropped out. I don’t work, I don’t pay taxes, I don’t have a mortgage, I have a single credit card with less than $800 debt on it, and that’s the major debt in my life, so fuck all of you.

I don’t have a brand new SUV, and my clothes are well-worn, but they’re fucking paid for. My car’s not new, but I don’t owe anyone anything for it. It actually belongs to me, unlike all you wage slaves who are paying for the privilege of using that shit until it’s worn out, at which point you will actually own it, when it’s not worth owning anymore, and even while you’re paying the thing off, when it doesn’t actually yet belong to you, you’re still saddled with having to pay for repairs and fuel and insurance. Ha! You’re fucked!

You’re out there working your asses off for absolutely nothing. You’re treading water, just a couple of weeks of unemployment away from complete disaster.

And, there’s nothing you can do about it because you’re holding both ends of the leash and you won’t let go. You’re chickenshit. You’re too goddamned scared to give up all the shit the corporate advertisers have hypnotized you into thinking you need to survive. How will you get along without your flat-screen television sets and your bus-sized cars?

Morons. Scared, pathetic slaves of your own making, chained by your own greedy desires. Ha-fucking-ha! You people are fucked because you’ve fucked yourselves and you keep playing by the rules because you can’t think what might happen if you break them. You haven’t got the balls to live on your own terms.