The American Dollar in all of it’s green glory, really is one of the ugliest currencies around. I mean if you look at the Euro with it’s cool blue and earth tones and The English pound with it’s majestic portraits of royalty, America has former Presidents and heads of state looking like they ate bad turkey on thanksgiving. Am I right…. I only look that green after a foul meal (get it because of the bad turkey joke, I guess if you have to explain it) or on halloween if I go as the Hulk. But maybe we made it that ugly for a reason, the guy that designed it was colorblind, I can’t think of any other reason. This article is not solely on why we use credit cards more than cash but also to point out that this economy runs on our currency strength. We are not a huge manufacturing company, That belongs to the countries that pay wages far less than ours, we are innovators. We come up with the ideas before shipping them overseas. The fact that we are innovators and not manufacturers puts this country in a different realm than , let us say, China, where they build giga factories and hospitals in less time it takes us to invade the Capitol. You see manufacturing countries can keep their currency low for a reason, because they receive money, but innovators, they need to have their currency strong because they have to use less of it to pay China. When your country’s influence runs on buying power, and we are the largest consumers of everything, which is why our economy is strong, then you want to make sure that your currency buys with a bang. How can I put this so even I understand it.

Americans are gluttons for consumer products, we buy until we are fat and unhappy and after we get happy by decluttering, we go out and make sure we become unhappy again by buying more useless shit, but that’s not a bad thing. It, excess, is what made us who we are, the most powerful country in the world. So when the dollar starts to look like the ARS (Argentina Nuevo Peso) we are in big trouble. We now have to decide whether to save for retirement or buying our toys. We used to be able to do both, now we are starting to have to choose. The affect that will have on our economy and are global standing will be evident when China surpasses us as the leading fat cats on the block. Then China will start sending us their ideas and we will send them their products because they are the new USA and we will become the new ARS (Argentina). Our ability to go out there and buy is what kept us strong, our inability to do so, will eventually bring us down. The Fed Reserve must come up with a plan to raise the buying power of the dollar if it wants to recover from this economic downturn and it needs to do it now. Keep America strong, buy that treadmill you will never use. It is not only not wrong or right it’s your patriotic duty

It could be that I’m a little tone deaf given the current crise, (that’s the correct form of the word), but the ideology still holds true. The people that are out of work and want to get back to work can only do it when we start buying uncontrollably but within our limits and when I say limits I mean until you luxury SUV can’t fit another item in it. When we can still save for retirement and buy the foot massager that you are going to regift after using it maybe… hmmm… three times.?!.?!, then we are America again. So save America and buy buy buy, for those who can afford it. And, buy American, sounds a little selfish, if you can, if there is anything that’s made in America anymore.

I would also like to take a timeout to thank the non-citizen citizens who kept all the produce and meat factories and chicken factories going. A majority of those factories are made up of you and I truly appreciate you and your sacrifice because if those factories employed only U.S. citizens, chicken would be $20 a pack, not $4 and salads would be non existent because you couldn’t pay a U.S. citizen enough to do that back breaking work. Thank you or muchas gracias, you literally saved this country.

This is a 5 Terrorist 5 Kilo excerpt

There have been many greats in this country, all not so great, unless they were thinking more along of the lines of “just great, what else could go wrong”. In 1929 this country went into, what is now known as, The Great Depression. It nearly took out this country but we roared back to become the greatest country on Earth, in no small part due to FDR’s actions and because the Japanese attacked us. We face a new great right now, The Great Partisanship, (trademarked), a political rift by not only two parties, but within parties that might become a big as a problem as the great depression. The divide by the Repubs at this moment could be a huge problem. This could give Demos, who already enjoy the popular vote in most elections, an unattainable lead that Repubs might not be able to overcome. This is really bad for America because it now allows one party to implement all the rules and regulations they want and as much as they, the Demos, might think that this is the best situation for the country because I’m sure they think they have the best interest of the country at heart, everything needs its check and balances. The Repubs play an important part in making sure that spending doesn’t get out of hand and that progress moves in the right direction without alienating big business, seemingly that is their role. Nothing ever works with one mindset, you need to have the right roadblocks to make sure this country doesn’t drive itself over a cliff at 100 MPH because someone didn’t see the warning signs.

Both parties are very alike in as much as that they want the best for this country and the people that live in it, they just disagree on SOME of the ways to get there. Both parties need to have some introspect and in this case, the Repubs are the ones that need to do some soul searching before they find themselves as a former political party. They need to make the tough decision of cutting or incising some of their party to save the party as a whole. Get rid of the cancer, no matter how tough. Make the tough decision now before the cancer spreads and it kills you. I’m not going to say who or what it is, that’s for the party’s leaders to decide but they have to rally the troops and make the tough call, even if it means your job. Save America, kill the cancer, rally around your leaders, see how I put an s after leader to make it leaders, because no one person rules the Repub party like no one person rules the Demo party, and make that tough decision. This is not a Dictatorship or an Aristocracy where one person makes all the calls, it’s a democracy where we all make the bad decisions. Simple rules, be honest to yourself and it will be easy to be honest to the country, right is right and wrong is wrong, my third grade teacher told me that and I asked can right be a giraffe instead and she was very emphatic that no, no it could not be. So live in reality, do what’s right and make the tough decisions that need to be made, before it’s too late.

I’m impressed by the Susan Collins’, Pat Toomeys, Adma Kizingers, Mitt Romneys who made the hard call. This country needs more moderate, willing to work together, uniters and less the they did it that way we’ll take the opposite stance people because Repubs and Demos are not opposites, they’re just overpaid, hahaha…. zing.

this is a 5 Terrorist 5 Kilos excerpt