It was these fun times that landed me in jail but my parents broke me free when my father became a Diplomat and we moved overseas. Unlike other places we could have gone, my father decided on Cairo, Egypt because it is the least likely place to have more fun. So, instead of doing what I used to do, I learned quite quickly that Egypt had the best HASH in the land... and, with a steady stream of alcohol us teenagers now had a new kind of fun that interestingly evolved into sexual fun and without precautions, we had no idea of the risks that we were taking until a pregnancy occurred and then the females imposed a moratorium.
With 3 years of college and 2 years in the military, I returned to the hallowed halls of academia and pursued my parent's dream of my education. It was much easier then, since I was older, and hardly ever had to study just attend class and learn to listen. Grad school was just a few years down the road and soon I was armed for bear which is not such a clever metaphor.
I paid little attention to politics but in case anyone asked I was a Democrat... just because my parents were too I suppose but they were also more liberal than the stuffed-shirts Republicans who referred to themselves as just being conservative. I was no conservative and had never been and planned not to be one forever, if that was even possible since forever is such a long, long time.
I hated gun rights because I did not like the violence of the Vietnam War that used guns and other weapons instead of talking... and, while I did not give a rat's ass if a female had an abortion, I strongly agreed that it was her choice and not the government's. In fact, I was against the government trying to control my life at all and formed an on paper company just to shelter money to lower my taxes.
A funny thing happened to me on my way (not to the Forum) to old age and that was I lost my LIBERAL ATTITUDE along the way and started leaning in the other direction. My first sense of anything was my personal debt and the debt of our country. I eliminated my debt but could not understand why my country would not eliminate their debt. I saw the liberals as a bunch of individuals who just wanted the rich and wealthy via the government to pay for everything instead of earning it themselves... and if, they had to cheat and manipulate others to get what they wanted they did and did so without hesitation.
All of a sudden like a psychedelic mushroom flashback, I realized it was the WEATHLY, not the middle class or poor, that provided us with employment even though it made them more wealthy to do so. In my mind and quite logically I decided that to take money away from the wealthy and use it to give services to others was in actuality being counterproductive not to mention counter intuitive.
And, while the ridiculous battles raged on by our two political parties, behind the scenes were battle fought between the haves and the have nots and then as if a giant FART had exploded out of the government's ass, the black people decided they had not been treated fairly for over 400 years and that our Constitution written in 1776 did not apply to them since they were basically still black and that HATRED between the races was being perpetuated by the CAUCASIAN on a regular and daily basis.
MIND YOU, there were plenty of wealthy male and female black business people, wealthy male and female black musicians and singers, wealthy male and female black athletes, and wealthy male and female black actors... it's just that there was not enough of them the black community thought and wanted our government to do something about that... even though the black only represent 13% of America's overall population with Hispanics representing 18% of that same overall population... and, they had no concerns at all.
HOWEVER, there was an under current growing in the political landscape... a movement that would take our government from being a Democratic Republic to being a Socialist country where the society cared more about the people than about the wealthy.
- It does not matter to American Liberals
- It does not matter to America's Enemies
- It does not matter to America's Wealthy because they have sheltered their money
- It does not matter to America's Businesses since they will hire fewer people
So, America is in a State of Transition and she will move from being a Great Country to one of Mediocrity and we will have to ask other country to protect us as we can no longer defend ourselves. And if... you think that I am kidding... what do you think DEFUNDING POLICE DEPARTMENTS really means? I know that the liberals said they were going to REDISTRIBUTE monies which is not really defunding... but that is semantics.
Redistribute means take from one and give to another. We do it all the time ourselves when we take money out of the VACATION FUND and redistribute it to our MEDICAL FUND.
Redistribute means police departments will have less funds which means they will have less manpower and less other resources which means YOU will have less protection than before...
Funds from the military will be redistributed as well to pay for social programs and Medicare for ALL...
And, one thing that I have not talked about that comes with an economic slowdown is INFLATION... if you have not experience that one yet, it can be devastating and you really have to experience it to believe it...
I am finally glad that I am 73 years of age and constantly getting older.
