I'd like to welcome all the X-Gamers to Aspen. The news looks bad lately, outside of this little mountain paradise. It's getting beyond terrible. Now that we've lost the potential entertainment that Heath Ledger might have brought us, will we suddenly find ourselves enlightened? I'm sitting in my kitchen den in the mountains. Outside it's cold. Snow is high white in the moonlight.
The world has gone to hell, but you'd be hard pressed to notice skiing Ajax. One need look no further than Google news though. It's chaos in the Middle East. The global markets are tumbling in response to the US financial crisis. Our government is proliferating weapons of mass destruction, we are going to put bombs in space, nobody seems to really care. The citizenry just keeps paying the bills. We just keep greeding along, consuming as we go.
I'm up here on the mountaintop, trying to start a business, getting ready to pay this government more so I can be a "law abiding citizen." I met with a lady from a payroll company today. I got to learn that for every dollar the business pays an employee, both the business and the employee pay a portion to Uncle Sam. Let me make that clearer. I get to pay the government for the privilege of paying an employee, who then has to pay for his right to get paid. Now if we were getting a little something in return, like health care, a law-abiding government, or some damn rights around here, I wouldn't have such a hard time with this suck leech of a federal government; but we are not getting a legitimate product for our money. We are being robbed and criminalized at once. More than fifty percent of the money our government collects from us goes to this military budget. We have a higher percentage of our population incarcerated than any other Nation on earth.
Wake up people, we live in a police state. Just look how armed you are compared with how armed the military and the police are. Who is being protected? Do you really feel safe? Here we are in the richest country on earth, and we don't even have universal health care. Yet we just keep paying these bloody bills for our criminal government. We just keep gorging at this all you can eat buffet, as our souls and our future wastes away? I'm just going to be honest. I fear my government.
Thomas Jefferson warned us. He said: "when the government fears the people, there is liberty. When people fear their government, there is treason."
Ski Conscious out there.
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