Karma. Coming. After. You.

I guess we don't really get it, the whole karma thing.

When some dipwad gets what's coming to him, we say, ah, that's karma (or my undying favorite, Karma's a MoFo). But we don't really get it.

It's not about an event that bitchslaps someone to attention, it's the CULMINATION of action or inaction in a fairly predictable outcome. The ultimate bitchslap, as it were.

The financial collapse in this country is due to nothing else but greed. Yeah, the corporations, but yours and mine as well. It's choosing to shop at Wal-Mart because that give us more money to spend elsewhere rather than spending money at local mom-and-pop shops that cost more but don't (always) short their help. It's about keeping money IN this country instead of sending it overseas to make someone else's standard of living better at the cost of our own.

We have lost the notion of sacrifice in this country - at the very least the delaying of gratification. In short, we have become whiny pigs. I was feeling sorry for myself because I had to give up pedicures - I thought that was SUCH a huge sacrifice, but going without health benefits (which I do now) is a much worse one. We have got to figure out something that will keep us from hemorrhaging money from our country.

The rants are back; long live the rant.



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