Ideas for the Future
I’m a bad person. I’ll say that right now so you have no illusions.
In my opinion America can be summed up in 3 words. Greed/consumerism, individualism, and innovation.
It is ok in America for everyone to be an island to themselves. We just negotiate with the people around us to get what we want but our interest in getting along with everyone else is motivated by our own greed. And to give a little more detail to that thought. Social Darwinism is very apparent in America because we are the top dog. We are so rich that our national GDP is greater than two continents combined. However, even with all that money we can’t fix our own poverty. I don’t think it is because we lack money or ideas. We have plenty of both. If you can fly to the bloody moon, you can fix poverty. We just don’t care to. It is too easy to say it is someone else’s fault and be accepted for it in this country. Ok that ends my bitching rant.
A possible solution. As your mother always said. If you can’t change something, change the way you think about it. We can’t beat poverty when eighty percent of the country doesn’t care. So a possible first step is to make everyone see what social Darwinism really is and the failures it creates in capitalism. We need to provide realistic alternatives to social Darwinism as an ideology and mindset.
So in short, we brainwash people. When people see things our way, they will do it willingly. And yes I was trying to sound like an evil dictator there. But seriously, look at Muslim countries for instance. They are dirt poor but the poverty line by comparison to us is better. They take care of their poor willingly and as a duty to their faith. While in America when a homeless person asks you for money, you question their intentions, there they give money in the form of alms. Give it a thought. Though I’m sure everyone reading this, has plenty of those already.
That’s all for me folks. I’m off to chill before JADE.
Filed under tdc09 | Tags: Add new tag | Comment (0)counting the days by coffee not drank
I need coffee. Cigars taste terrible. I mean who came up with the idea of, ‘hey there’s cigarettes which taste sweet and are cheap. Now let’s create the cigar which will taste like ash in your mouth and cost more.’ Yep bad idea. And I bought it anyway. At the very least it woke me up. I have wasted a whole dollar and will never finish the second cigar. That my friends is a sad state of affairs. I have waste on a budget of pitiful nothing. Wow.
But ok. Today was lousy. I’m experiencing sugar withdraws, caffeine withdraws, and sleep depravation. Life is wonderful. Only meeting this entire week and I almost slept through it after falling asleep at a desk. Power to me I say. So ya. There you have it. My experience.
Next up folks will be the ideas I have for the future of this Two Dollar Challenge.
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History of Economics is the place to be when you have five hours of sleep cause your focus will definitely go up. Also Stageberg is great for making fun of you while your homeless. Nothing quite says your homeless and hungry quite like that. Good times
After class I ran to get bread and peanut butter and an apple. I love apples. Ate on my way to weight training class. I arrived and my professor just kinda stared at me and then the rest of the students and realized I blended right in.
After that class, I got some ramen and chilled at Shanty Town for a while. Ate some ramen. Chilled. Read some econ. It was good. Standard day. I gotta say bathing in this has gotten SO much more interesting this year. We can only bath at “public sources”, aka sinks or in my case a giant fountain. 
The looks I got from that were magical. I’m officially insane in the eyes of many students here. Lovely. And it was cold too. You’d think I’d be fun to bath in the fountain but no it’s bloody cold and has stuff everywhere in it. Or that came off me…………. either way. The point is, I’m cold. So there.
Following my bath I wanted my cigar. Sadly I don’t know how to smoke it so I failed to keep it lit. Apparently you have to cut off the end. So complicated. Oh well, tomorrow morning will find me and I’ll be there to get that nicotine.
And now I’m blogging and doing homework. Lovely. That’s all for now folks.
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Ok to complete the first two days of what I did.
After leaving my room I went to class an hour early. That’s a big improvement for me considering I’m usually late. So I chilled and did homework and read my book on biology. Investment Analysis is always interesting, especially when you’re dreaming of burgers. Um, Burgers.
Then I went to German two hours early. Another big success for me. I read comics and did homework for two hours in the lab. I usually like German and today I did my homework. Ironically it didn’t help me but oh well.
I chilled with friends and begged for beagles for the next 3 hours till Aikido. The beagle run was interesting since another group showed up that helps the homeless and I could only get 5 from them. Can’t compete with the real homeless for the challenge. We got ramen. I gotta say though that meeting another person out to help the homeless was great. From what I remember, it is a church off of route 2 in Fredricksburg. They also help the poor who show up Tuesday through Thursday. They even offered to feed us. Ha! Ah, nice people.
Aikido was sweet but sweating was not. Especially since I can’t shower.
Now that I officially smelled like ass, I returned to my room to do work. Still gotta work, regardless of starvation. I got done, boiled some water and left to get ramen.
Ramen. The good stuff in life. Ok, I officially love the CCM. Though I would never choose to be Catholic, they are an awesome branch of it. I walked in with all my stench and homelessness carrying a pot and ramen and ask for the stove. They show me where it is and how to use it. AWESOME!!!!!!!! I get the ramen and leave. I must have been their shadiest customer all day and worse yet a liberal! Chilled at the shanty town and ate my ramen with a slightly melted plastic fork. It was delicious but so salty. Literally chilled with my homies since the temperature dropped a lot while we sat. Layered my clothes finally and I’m seriously considering insulating my clothes with newspaper. Maybe on Wednesday!
Left for piano. Waves on the Danube is more difficult to play fast. But I’m finally mastering the piece. Joy. Returned to the shanty town and went to bed.
Tuesday: I woke up and left for McDonald’s with my donated coupon for a free medium coffee. Gotta get my fix man. They gave me the strangest look when I took two free samples they had left out and a free medium coffee and sat down to do history of economics. Lol. After that I left to blog. And now here I am after being kicked out of a computer lab, back in my room, smelling the place up. My roommates must love me.
That’s all for now folks. Check back later for more.
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1st night:
Chill by the fountain and nurse my very sore feet. You walk everywhere so I think I walked at least 5 miles and stood most the day.
Returned to the camp and found everyone returned but NO BEAGLES!!!! AAHHHHH! Ate bread and peanut butter. Yum. Thought about ramen but passed it up to go practice piano.
Piano was good till talented people showed up. Then my confidence fell and I left for Seven Eleven.
Seven Eleven. I wanted to get cigs. Seemed more homeless to me. But cigars will do. I picked up two vanilla flavored cigars. Considering I’ve only smoked cigarettes this should be interesting. A little nicotine wake up call. Coffee, oh coffee, my drug of choice, wie musst aller Zeit vielen gelb du kaufen?
Lovely. Anywho, went to bother a friend then. Smelted down two of my hard earned dumpster dived plastic containers. That was amusing.
Why do beards stop at the neck?
Returned and got ready for bed. Took 2 hours but most of that was goofing off.
Woke up like 5 or 6 times cause my now nearly bald head was cold. Gotta take the good with the bad.
Finally got up for good. Brushed teeth and got a jacket and hat out of the storage locker that is now my room. Ironically, I found another homeless person sleeping in my bed. LEE GET OUT OF MY BED MAN! I’ve only been gone a day and my roommates replaced me. NO! You go back to your own room man.
Ok that’s all for now folks.
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The day in brief:
Woke up at 7, Gorged myself on food, showered, shaved, brushed teeth.
8 went back to bed.
11 got up again and moved out to my new home. No one was there so I left to get supplies.
Goods purchased at Dollar General: Penut Butter, Bread, and Ramen (always a safe choice).
Good purchased at Giant: Red Apples for $2.50. An apple a day to keep the coroner away.
Came back to shanty town. Mike arrived. Everyone else was still gone so I went to the library. I’ll be the nerdiest homeless person ever.
Worked on Shanty town with everyone. Our shanty town is elite. We have a desk. OH YA!
Garbage dived at the apartment trash bins. Found some good bottles and rope. Sweet.
Lost everyone and wound up here bloging. Lol. That’s all folks.
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