Money does not equal life. I repeat: Money doesn’t equal life.

November 3rd, 2008 admin

Difficult times don’t bring out the best in people. Is hard to ask a sinking person to think about anybody else other than saving himself. The economical crisis is showing the real character in the people around you, and in myself.

Producing value for others is not an easy task. For most people, their lives are completely tied up to their jobs. Their jobs provide the security of sustainability and affordability of social anesthetics like shopping sprees and Friday’s dine out.

My questions today revolve around: why do we all live so attached to the pursuit of money? why is it that we believe that with more money our life would be easier, safer and better? I have the impression that most people in their death beds don’t look back and say: “I would try to live longer so that I can make more money”.

A life in the pursuit of “more” is a life full of absolutely nothing. If I live my life as if I was awaiting for a destination I would miss my life completely. Because life is really the trip.

The worst part about it is that I pretend that my only problem is lack of money when in reality deep inside I know that the real lack is fatih.

If you take two people and send them to a deserted island: To the first one you give a million dollars and to the second you give a reason to live, who do you think that would last longer?

We are like money hungry robots with junk-filled garages. We associate so much pleasure to the act of getting that we have forgotten how does it feel to give something to somebody else.

The paradox:

I want to work hard to get more money. The more money I get, the more things I buy. The more things I buy the less money I end up with. So I have to work more for more money.

In the end, I have neither money nor life. It is a pretty clever distraction.

Summarizing: Our entire lives we sell our time in exchange for money. Money that we plan to use to buy a better life. But at that point we have no time left.

Is like working at Disney World. Waking up every day and working hard. When you retire, somebody asks you if you enjoyed the rides and you reply: “I didn’t have time to enjoy them”.

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Senator Joe Biden Wardrobe is $7,99

October 22nd, 2008 admin

Are you kidding me? Why would you want to complain about Sarah Pailin’s clothe’s cost? These dirty politics are getting pretty old and fast. They don’t know what to invent. If we stopped as a nation to analyze what George Bush or Bill Clinton spent in candy I wouldn’t be surprised.

Wake up! The unemployment in the US is growing drastically, the economy is in bad shape due to people’s unreasonable spending habits and we blame the government for it…

Joe Biden clothing line might be in the $7,99 to $9 dollars but does that really matter?

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What is the value of smart decisions in a country that rewards stupidity?

October 9th, 2008 admin

“The bailout doesn’t seem to be working” the news announced today. Now, the question is not if it works or not. The question really is what is the value of smart financial decisions in a country that rewards irresponsibility and stupidity? And the answer is the value is 0.

Why would the goverment want to help the people that bought houses that they couldn’t afford or in terms that they didn’t review, while not being fair to the ones that are paying their mortgages on time. Perhaps everybody should be defaulting on their payments in order to renegotiate their interest and their principals!

The crazy part, in my opinion, is that it is not a bad plan to help economy in a perfect world. But in the world in which we live, it is like giving tax money directly to the people that caused the problem in the first place. So it is like a parent that has an irresponsible kid and a responsible one. The irresponsible one takes all his toys and throws them away.  Then, the parent takes some of the toys of the responsible one and gives them to the first. The result? Both kids are now left with less toys overall and the trust of the responsible kid in his parents is crippled for ever.

Why should the taxpayers trust the government?

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Katie Couric gets put in her place.

October 1st, 2008 admin

All I have to say is that I am glad that Mrs. Couric didn’t get a chance to try to intimidate Mrs. Pailin. I just don’t understand Read the rest of this entry »

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