Changing ideologies and growing older...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also, paying your own way has a way of making you less liberal.

ha, compare me to the 15 year old me!

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also, paying your own way has a way of making you less liberal.

ha, compare me to the 15 year old me!

I seriously doubt you're really paying your own way.  And right now, you seem to have no aspirations for anything better than a bare subsistence way of life, with no future.  You're hardly the norm.

The only things I'm not paying for are my college education and my auto insurance (since it's not even my car anyway, it's still my parents', I just borrow it)

And you are wrong, I would like to be able to buy a bigger TV, bigger stereo system, more rare records and have more lapdances. The real question is: What would I do if became one of the upper class? I can't think of anything I'd do with that amount of money, since most people who do have that amount buy expensive cars and huge suburban McMansions.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

But I'm not going to go through all the trouble of working very hard and stressful jobs to make more money than I need. Now if I found an easy way to get tons of money, I would use that and use the money on more stereos, TVs, records, lapdances, etc. See my post about the Minneapolis guy who's a high school dropout and made over 100 grand last year with no job, by simply suing telemarketers. Now THAT'S my type of model. As it is I would simply rather work an easy job that gives me enough money to buy what I want, rather than work a hard job just so I can be rich just for the hell of it.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Might I point out that even though my views may not be common, most people my age are liberal anyway, so you can't say paying your own way makes you conservative.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What age bracket voted most heavily for Kerry?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

well yes there is the income issue, but we were where most of the "ABB" screaming was coming from. Why are college campuses known as such hotbeds of extreme leftism?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Except I do work and don't live off welfare. My point is that it's not worth it to get a very stressful job that pays more since I have no desire to buy a huge SUV, a suburban McMansion, or all that other garbage rich people buy.