Wednesday Weigh-In

So I weighed in yesterday...no weight loss :(
Today I am still going to weigh in but not about my weight.......wait for it........wait for it.....

How stupid does AIG think we are? Probably really stupid. First of all our elected officials/us, gave them billions of dollars to help out their ailing company....billions of our hard earned tax dollars.....then AIG who was so poor and down and out sent it's big wigs on a all expenses paid retreat. Now AIG is giving out huge bonuses to the same big wigs ( The company CEO said he wants then to give the bonuses back....but the bird has been freed from it's cage. Fat chance)......This is a company who boo hooed to the Govt./Us, for tons of money because they were in dire need. Their failure was going to wipe out the American economy.....Obviously AIG knows how stupid we/our elected officials are......Please stop the insanity.

and to continue my rant.....

What happened to natural selection, survival of the fittest? If you fail you fail and the strong will survive, the cream will rise to the top. The problem with our present culture is that we save everyone and everything. As a society we are quick with the handout and making an exception. We are keeping the stupid alive.....from the big ailing companies to the individual. We give welfare (giving fish not teaching how to fish), have seat belt and helmet laws, child proof caps, chapter 11 and 13 for bankruptcy, etc.......we allow and give all this because we think it makes us appear more human and christian......Pressure and abrasion makes us all stronger......We need to let people and business fight a little for what they need....we need to stop with the quick hand outs and legislating common sense. If you can't make it on your own and use your God given ingenuity to keep your head above water, or you need a law to tell you not to do something stupid then you deserve to fail.

We were discussing and laughing about this present situation with Hayden the other day. He too sees the irony that we save everyone from their own stupidity......Gary was going on about it all and Hayden responded "but kids ate paint chips when you your a kid dad." Gary quickly replied back "and those stupid kids who did so are no longer with us."

The hit TV show Survivor isn't about true survivors....as in the physically strong will survive, but it is about the manipulators, cheaters and liars, the mentally strong. The ones who win because they played it safe and rode on the coat tails of the physically strong. The winners are the ones who figured out how to "play the game" .....Unfortunately this TV program is a true reflection of our present society. We have made survival a game with our hand outs and legislation.....We have no balance...we need both types of strong, the mental and physical. For our society to thrive and survive we need physically strong, sound, growing enterprises, communities, families and individuals, and theses entities need to be run/ruled by those who are also mentally strong.....smart, not manipulators. We need to figure out how to make it on our own with out a handout, without being the exception, without crying it's not fair. If you can't make it doing what you are doing then you need to make a change from with in. An out side fix is only cosmetic and does nothing to support the foundation or build up the structure.
We need to get a clue. ......let natural selection take place. Let's quit being stupid and bailing out the stupid.....Survival should be of the physical and mental fittest.
So there is my rant.....my weigh in.

MCC