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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Though... I still can't believe how completely idiotic campaigning has become, through the past... Well, as long as I've been aware enough to pay attention to them. Nobody ever says what they will do; it's always "he said, she said," instead of "I plan on improving _______."
Sorry. I started ranting, there... I'll stop, now... ._.
That, and our position in the world's economy right now is that of the bratty tween who keeps asking his "friends" to lend him money, even though he almost never pays them back. We owe so much money to China alone, they could practically annex us, until we manage to pay them back. Not in a literal sense, of course, but I think the picture was rendered, there... I lacked a proper comparison there, and my mind fails to think of the correct words for the idiocy this country is dealing with.
I think I have a plan for our government. It's just a rough idea, and it's not fool-proof at all, but it sounds good on paper, a least. So, if a corporation (like Wal-Mart or Google) started to become too much of a monopoly, and pushing everything else out of business, the government would make the taxes on that giant company just a bit heavier, to "even out the money." It's free market, but with less room for greed, but it's not "communism," or a "command economy," because there's still room for choice... If you want to pay prices that are a little higher (say, $5.00 for that cheap t-shirt, instead of $4.00, because of a .5% tax increase on the bigger company). It would also help if everybody wasn't so obsessed with all of the fat Ben Franklins in their pockets, though. If the mid- to lower-middle class could figure out how to really get these CEOs to realize how big the bucket of SHIT they've dumped on the country (and really, the world) is, I think things might get a little better. Maybe. Plus, it would make room for more competition, which calls for more jobs, as well as lower prices and higher quality, which would trigger more incentive to purchase goods and services by the higher amount of people with jobs, which would increase the demand for those goods and services, which would call for more jobs, and so on. It's somewhat of a "positive vicious cycle" of sorts, if it works correctly!
But REALLY; when people are heavily commercializing water, a natural resource that's needed, in order for people to live, or when even the common people practically need to be bribed with a reward, to "donate" to something like The March of Dimes, the greed is getting way out-of-hand.