Riches and Humility (In a Political Sense)

Another two points.

2) I was watching the release of the 2009 fiscal year budget for the US. $3.6 trillion?! Well, the Bush administration had trillion dollar budgets, but still!

I don't really have an opinion about the budget, but it's just that we are now on the era of trillions of dollars worth of wealth. Where did this money come from in the first place? I guess the world economic system just states that we do "have" trillions of dollars of wealth.

SO, I guess the "dream" is now to be a billionare?! What the hell am I going to do with billions of dollars? Or even tens of millions of dollars? The one thing for sure is to set up a charitable foundation. Perhaps it will be known as the Derrick Dumo Foundation. What will the foundation do? That I will think about.

1) I think we are in a time period where being rich is evil. I don't think so. Being rich is not evil. Being greedy is! There's a responsibility to society that we do use our wealth wisely to benefit everyone. I agree with people when they say that the economic crisis was caused by people who wanted to make the quick buck without contributing to anyone and leave the system to crack from their greedy ambitions.

Another thing is that there's so many people that expects the government or someone to bail them out when they screw up. You know what that is...socialism. Sure, I believe that we should have some form of universal health care (or even better universal health wellness and prevention) program. I believe we should have some guarantee to survive. However, we shouldn't promise anyone success. If you made the bad decisions, the poor choices, then you should deal with the consequences. If you made the wise choices, you should bask in the success. This is the United States of America, people. We are only give opportunities, not guarantees. Not everyone is going to be homeowners or be rich. There's no shame in renting, working with your hands, or even just having a humble lifestyle. Deal with it, everyone! I guess you have an idea of what I think about the bail outs.

That is all.