This beautiful song, is from this amazing band, but I 1st heard this in this amazing flash video Dare by squeakytoad at http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/313120
But what really drives me now, is that it is clear finally to all of you, how failed our economic and financial philosophies were and are.
We have failed and failed again, in any drive to be financially responsible.
I knew a long time ago, that the stock market was gonna crash, that our ideas of spend, spend, spend was gonna crash on us. And now it is.
How stupid, we were to think we could endlessly spend, endlessly play financial games with our economy and our country, by the mere drive to make money.
Making money is good, but how we do it, and what the consequences of our actions, what were we thingking?
I am quoting from Wikipedia on the Stock Market:
"The stock market is one of the most important sources for companies to raise money. This allows businesses to be publicly traded, or raise additional capital for expansion by selling shares of ownership of the company in a public market. The liquidity that an exchange provides affords investors the ability to quickly and easily sell securities. This is an attractive feature of investing in stocks, compared to other less liquid investments such as real estate."
-Wikipedia @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market
It is clear now, that instead of keeping the purpose of the stock market towards it's true purpose of raising funds for new/old companies, has mutated into this freak of a monster that grants no financial stability, instead it's become a financial game.
Sorry, boy's & girls have to play with their toy's wisely or won't be able to play with them anymore.
Also look at Credit Card, also a semi-good idea, massively abused, and massively ruined, into ruining people's lives and credits, because most people have no spending control's.
So guess what our economy is rapidly going down the tube, because of this.
Are we going to wake up, and start acting financially responsible?
Time to grow up, get fiscal and frugal, and let's get our country back to being practical.
Maybe if you had parents or grand parents during the 1950's, maybe we can learn some lessons from them. On how to be practical, common sense, hard working, good ethics.
Maybe we've gotten so lost into consumerism, and technology, we lost what made us great.
American was a great country.
I just don't know how many of you see how it's burning down, just like Rome.
Remember Nero was one of the last emperor's of Rome, and instead of fixing problems while it burned down, he played the violin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_fire_of_Rome
Are you going to be like Nero, and watch America self-destruct, or help to fix the problem.
Thank You.
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