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    Seems like every day we read more and more about how terrible a state the economy is in.  The market is still down, housing market is a joke, and unemployment rates continue to rise.  But you know what, life still seems to go on.  Case in point............This years NBA draft which took place tonight in New York City.
    There was the NFL draft in April, the MLB draft in June, and there was Hockey (nobody follows Hockey so who gives a shit)....anyway, point is this.....with all the talk about unemployment, the last few months, including tonight, concluded with there being new millionaire's in our country.
    Pretty much the first 30 kids drafted to play a game for a living tonight will now start collecting six figure salaries at least.  Plus, after July 1st,  the big event of the NBA free agency period begins, and this is when people like Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh will decide which team they would like to make $10 to $20 million a year to play for.  Does this sound like we are in the midst of an economic crisis?
    I am by no means jealous or upset about this by the way.  God bless all these kids and there opportunities to make all their dreams come true.  I am just trying to prove a point here.  I think the point I would like to make is that we as a society, and a country, still have some control over what kind of economy we would like to be a part of.  And we can be as prosperous, generous, and powerful as we want to be as a nation.  And, as usual, it always starts with how we as a whole would like to invest our money.
    I've grown pretty tired of all the talk about how bad everything seems to be (as I slowly creep through rush hour traffic in southern california next to hundreds of high priced luxury cars and SUV's in what is considered the place with one of the highest unemployment rates in the country every year)
    And please stop trying to talk about the great mortgage rates out there right now in the housing market.  I tried to get into this whole wonderful craze, and the so-called opportunity of a lifetime to be a homeowner again.  I tried for about 3 months straight to purchase a below average size home, while having pretty much perfect credit, money in the bank, no car payments, and a stable form of employment.    Because............guess what I found out............these great low rates are not for people like me !!! They are for rich people !!!
    They are for fellow businessman and rich people to buy up 2, 3, 4 at a time while putting down more money then I make in a year for each home.  So rather then the average hard working Joe and his family purchasing a dream home for say $200,000, Don fucking businessman is buying it at $180,000 cash, and will happily now sell it to Joe for $250,000.  Sooooooooo, guess what? The god damn housing market is still struggling right now because Joe can't fuckin afford the price hike that the rich usually sell it for like the freekin Mafia tax.
    Which pretty much brings me back to some kind of original point I am trying to make.  Seems like many of us who are struggling in life continue to try and find things that bring us joy, not pain.  As far back as time goes, there was always something the poor held on to, whether it was religion, culture, music, poetry or dance.  There is always that thing that we would like to grab on to, think about, and dream about during our times of struggle, and it leads us to continue to buy our sports tickets, movie tickets, and of course lottery tickets.    
    I'm not gonna bother talking about the so-called benefits of the lottery tickets funding schools in our country, because our educational system is a joke, so I will instead highlight the sports and movie tickets.  I highlight them because its those tickets which make millionaires out of a select few, at the cost of all the poor.  
    My goal has always been to be one of the select few, but that goal hasn't exactly panned out up to this point in time.  So I remain in the majority......The majority of the poor......the masses......the millions......the overwhelming number of the just-tryin-to-get-by-club.
    So I say this my fellow Americans.................Give to your family and yourself................invest in yourself, your family, and your specific dreams, goals and hopes.............then give whatever is left over to the select few...........Then maybe they will pay more attention to you.
What do ya think a that?