V Day coming around again

I promised my wife that every year I would so something romantic with her on V day. But I am feeling so poor now. No not as in "poor thing... awweeeee! Poor" but as in no money poor. No matter how hard I have been trying to save, the need to spend just overcomes my ability to save. Like I just had to pay road tax for my car, insurance and blah. Then I also needed new clothes for work,eg, shirts and slacks and because I am a short little guy, I have to have them tailor made. It beats the hell out of buying something off the shelf and then having to cut half the bloody material off to make it more suitable for my height. It was like the other time when I went to Giordano to buy a pair of jeans, the shop assistant asked me if I wanted the remaining material back to make a pair of bermudas. It was that bad ladies and gentlement. Anyway, that is another story for another day.

So with Valentine's day coming, I am pondering, should I splurge a few hundred bucks to buy some roses that will make her day and spoil mine, or just explain to her that I have to be a miser because things are really going shitty. I am actually pretty lucky because a few of my frens have already been retrenched. And some of them have already been asked to take pay cuts. No matter how much savings you have, it is being eaten away even if you have a job.

It is also a vicious cycle as the banks have lost a great deal and the whole market has also lost a great deal. Even modestly safe companies have taken a beating because everyone is scared. So no one is spending, but then the there are still some idiots who think that they can spend a whole shit load of cash. My problem was that how come bank bosses still demand huge bonuses when other staff have been sacked. I will not talk about karma or what, but the world is not as stupid as it was before. Now the people who have not will rise to take over the people who have. The whole social order will change within the next 2-3 years and there will be great unrest. If I sound like Nostradamus, do not worry... I do not claim to be one. And I do not believe in foretelling a future. But the signs are there. We had a period of time where we had a lot of peace and relative growth. Now the generation that grew up in such a period are so screwed. My generation. We are too old to find new jobs, too deep in debt to take a lower paying job even if we are given it. How did it happen, why did it happen?

The base reason is greed. Everyone is greedy. However, those who have power want more. It is never enough. So they allow transgression to carry on. The bank bosses want huge bonus so they allow the banks to take huge risks. Hey... the subprime was an idiot's dream of hedonic hell. Imagine, you do not have the money to pay for a second house, but heck we will give it to you as long as you pay the interest and monthly payments. HELLO!!!! If I had only 3k and had to pay 2k for both houses, I will run myself to the ground. And when I run myself to the ground, how the hell am I going to pay??? And yet the banks allowed this to happen. The up side... if the idiot who took the loan is able to pay, he will be paying at a higher rate of interest to feed the bank bosses fat bonus.

But now, those who were led into this mess, those who were royally screwed by this will rise and rebel. As people become poorer, social order starts to be unglued. It is true. If you are poor and living in the dumps, what is robbing someone to get some money or getting caught and being sent to jail be? Rock and a hard place? I do not think so. When social order disintergrates.... the victims will make noise.... Where is the peace? Where is the safety? Blah blah blah... then you will see more troubles lor.

Fat bosses who think that everything is ok will find themselves where the French nobels were during the revolution. A typical lynch target.... Lucky I only drive a Lancer Ex.... hehehehehehe....

Well we shall see lah.... I do hope that my predictions do not come true. For if it does, this world will be a shitty place to live for a long while man. Do not forget, some politicians feel that if the economy is bad.... Lets start a war to make the people forget.