If you build it, they will come...and tax it.

"You think following the rules will buy you a nice life, even if the rules make you a slave." -Mal, Firefly.

Isn't that the American Dream?

We're bred and conditioned now to follow without question. Or if there are questions, they are cunningly channeled into dead ends. And we know this. And we don't care.

Well, I care. Yet, all I can do is howl in silent frustration.

That's exactly how they want it to be.

And we've sold our souls to the devil for a v8 suburban and 2 bedroom condo our grandchildren will still be paying off when we're dead and gone. Years pass by, only marked by the current sale going on at Walmart- Chirstmas, Easter, Halloween, Labor Day, and on and on; all of our celebrations and religious observances commercialized and sold back to us.

The American Dream...if we work hard enough, long enough, and keep hoping, someday we'll be rich and famous, or at least, have no worries other than do I want ham or beef for dinner.

What a crock.