I've kinda had it with all of the BS

[CrispyQ]

124. We let it happen when we traded in our citizenship to become consumers.

We got hooked on instant gratification, & here we are, decades later, a culture of two year olds, who want what they want, & want it now. We let Madison Ave. define who we are & they want us to be consumers, not citizens. We were so busy keeping up with the Jones' that we didn't notice our public officials paying their friends $600 for a hammer.

When we woke up to the amount of corruption in our various governments, we swallowed the line that privatization was the answer, that corporations can do the job better & cheaper! We forgot a couple of vital facts: 1) Unless you are a major shareholder, you have no control over the management of a company, whereas, if you don't like the job a public official is doing, you can vote them out. Hell, you can even run for office yourself! 2) Corporations are beholden to their shareholders, not the community.

Put on your nose plug, Manny, cuz we're pretty much fucked, imo.