Lee1968
Elite Member
I am on the schedule for 60 hours this week. 5, 12 hour nightshifts. They will tax what I make and give it to politicians to give to someone else who is making no contribution to society. I renew my licenses and dutifully get my necessary permits and follow all of the rules. Every couple of years, politicians get on the TV and promise me things that I know are lies. They assure me if I vote for them this time, I will get a fair shake. They are lying. I know it and they know it. But still we play the game. I now watch on TV the riots (not protests). People who have no interest in society or following the rules. They burn police cars, occupy police stations, loot and destroy things other rule followers have worked their entire lives to build. Nothing will happen to them. There will be no punishment or repercussion of any kind. As a matter of fact, they are being celebrated for their tolerance of people like me. People who have apparently metaphorically had their knee on their neck by people like me for generations. Celebrities are not supporting law abiding citizens playing the game by the rules, they are donating bail money to these thugs instead. I am tired of the game. I have been frustrated before, but always took solace in the fact that I was “doing the right thing”. There is no solace now. I feel like a fool. I am in my early 50’s, I have worked my entire life and saved (like I am supposed to do) to have a little nestegg I can use as my retirement in the hopes that I will have a little time off before I am dead to do what I want. Yet I watch people getting what they want by violence and destruction. And they are getting what they want right now simply by demanding it. They don’t have to wait. They don’t have to work for anything. Everything will be given to them or they will take it. What game are they playing? It isn’t the game I am playing for sure. Their game has no rules, while mine has too many. Yet I am the problem according to “society”. Society wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for people like me. I am tired of it.