A Personal Rant

I live in a state where marijuana is legal, but plastic bags aren't. Where in order to help the poor, the state raises the price that the poor pay for cigarettes. Where the more roads they build, the worse the traffic gets. Where your salary is not bad, but you spend it all on rent.  Where people who did not bother to vote protest the election they did not participate in by riots. Where big corporation are hated, but yet they control the economy. Where they build mass transit that doesn't go anywhere. A state where everyone hates Walmart, but everyone shops there, riding in carts because they are too fat to walk. A state that prides itself on organic food, but is filled with MacDonalds. A state that is the porn capital of the world, but the issue recently on the ballot was not should you "do it" in films, but should the actors wear condoms when they do. (They don't have to, the measure failed.)

I live in a nation where the best and cheapest way to get gender reassignment surgery is to join the military. A nation where the president agrees to a ceasefire, and the military "accidentally" breaks it. A nation that is happy when its president only drones a few people, and only supports wars that kill hundreds of thousands, but does not directly participate. A nation that subsidizes large corporations while singing the praises of a free enterprise system. I live in the most prosperous and wealthiest nation in the history of the world, but yet it can't pay its bills.

I live in a nation that thinks that a politician can save them from themselves. As the Bible says, you reap what you sow. Get ready for some karma.

Comments

[isomorphismes]

Think much of what you're saying is legit and going unsaid. However:

Where in order to help the poor, the state raises the price that the poor pay for cigarettes.

You do understand the logic of this one, right?

Where your salary is not bad, but you spend it all on rent.

City living. One of the seminal economic theory examples is how wages in London rose and rents across the Thames followed quickly after. https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/the-working-classes-and-the-poor

USA wouldn't have suburbs and need for roads w/o this pressure!

marijuana is legal, but plastic bags aren't

Hurt only yourself vs bags take 5 times longer to biodegrade than between Christ's crucifixion and present day!