Oil and Water: Vices and Poverty

This is a good way to tell if you are a lying sack of shit, a lazy bastard or just doomed:

If you are addicted to cigarettes or booze.... you are not a poor man.

Explanation: If you still have the ability to maintain any of these vices and still stand under the noble banner, "Damn I am broke," you are a god damn fucking liar and should be hanged in the square by your thumbs.

Let's talk vices for a bit. A truly broke and broken individual has not even a margin in their complex yet limited budget for any type of vice, addiction, "retail therapy" or hobby. Now if you are sucking off fat guys behind the truck stop for your Marlboros or choking newborns for a shot of J&B, then you land outside this category. However, if you are one of the many brazen fakers who claim that they can't pay their rent, but are hung over with a half full pack of smokes in their back pocket... you're not poor, you're a fucking moron.

Truly broke people don't have vices. They can't afford them. They don't "not know how to handle money" they don't have "impulse control issues," and they are not "bad money managers." THEY"RE FUCKING BROKE. They go nowhere, they do nothing. They work, they eat, they sleep, they shit and they hate your fucking guts. If they do drink or smoke, they do it on someone else's dime or when they are able to squeeze a microcosm of money out of their already strangled cash flow to buy the cheapest six pack they can and then consume in a dark room to keep from killing themselves. Like on birthdays.

That's it! There are no exceptions. So if you are one of these people, quit your vice and see where you stand. Two weeks without booze or cigarettes can can totally redefine your financial, not to mention mental and possibly spiritual, outlook. Suddenly, you will find yourself discovering all this extra cash you have around and the ability to feed yourself without flaring up that ulcer or borrowing from your folks.

I will rip on this more later, but there are those people who want to be poor. Not that they are consciously seeking out ways that they can burden themselves with all the pitfalls of a capitalist society, but they are people who long for the justification to complain about their finances. THIS SITE IS NOT FOR YOU.

People who can't control their spending, or just "have to have" things are deserving of the capitalist ass rape that is pumped into every non-wealthy American from their date of birth. There is a very immense need for that type of person in order to make many very rich, very powerful industries grow and prosper. But as I said, I will have my way with this later.

So to conclude this Oil and Water for today, analyze that vice and justify it in whatever way you wish. If you are truly enslaved by it, hopefully it will kill you quickly and violently, if not, then put it down. Your simple act or inactivity may be the dividing line between abject poverty and sustained impoverishment.