First of all I want to offer my sincerest gratitude for all of the wisdom you share. I have been watching your channel on YouTube pretty much every day for the past few years and I have learned so much and have been able to see things through a new perspective.
I wanted to reach out to you because I genuinely feel like I need your guidance. Not just want, but need. There have been so many times when I have contemplated writing you to ask your advice about the situation with my mother, but I have had so many mixed feeling: not wanting to burden you with my issues, feeling like I should be able to deal with it on my own, feeling embarrassed, etc... but now I’m sitting in bed crying my eyes out feeling this burden so heavily on my heart with no one to turn to for the kind of guidance you can provide, so I decided to finally reach out. I know you are so busy and so many people want to speak with you, but I just needed to try, because maybe you will see this and want to offer your wisdom.
My problem is my lack of a family support system and an incredibly toxic mother. My whole life I knew that my mom was fragile and I tried to always be there to tell her she was the best mom ever and she was beautiful. She would stand in the mirror with me right there and say how ugly and fat she is while I would tell her she was not. She was always very codependent on me and my stepfather but I thought it was my responsibility to take care of her. When I moved out of their house and in with my boyfriend 11 years ago she was so horrible to me and she has gone on a major spiral downward since then. I have come to realize just how toxic and manipulative she has always been.
I’m feeling so depressed today... it’s been building and building and I’ve been trying to keep it together and just focus on the positive side of things but today I just can’t do it. I’m just so sad. I don’t have a relationship with anyone in my family anymore because I cut off contact with my parents. I didn’t even think that would be possible until I watched your videos and you gave me permission to stop letting them steal my joy and infect my life.
My mom is addicted to prescription medications and is a total mess. I have tried to help her for years until I realized it’s not my responsibility. She is also a constant victim of imaginary ailments, codependent, toxic, emotionally abusive and manipulative. I was abused by my biological father before he abandoned me at 5 years old and I can’t even tell my mom about the abuse because she always turns herself into a victim and will make me console her and tell her it’s not her fault (even though it is partially, because she chose such a horrible man to have a child with). She is so manipulative that she convinced everyone in my f
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The reason that political action will not work is that it is simply a numbers game -- here is the proof.
Slightly over half of all Americans 52.6 percent now receive significant income from government programs, according to an analysis by Gary Shilling, an economist in Springfield, N.J.
That's up from 49.4 percent in 2000
and far above the 28.3 percent of Americans in 1950.
1 in 5 Americans hold a government job or a job reliant on federal spending.
A similar number receive Social Security or a government pension.
About 19 million others get food stamps
2 million get subsidized housing
5 million get education grants. For all these categories, Mr. Shilling counted dependents as well as the direct recipients of government income.
(also, free daycare from state schools)
Approximately 85% of the state's 235,000 employees (not including higher education employees) are unionized. As the governor noted during his $83 billion budget roll-out, over the past decade pension costs for public employees increased 2,000%. State revenues increased only 24% over the same period. A Schwarzenegger adviser wrote in the San Jose Mercury News in the past few days that, "This year alone, $3 billion was diverted to pension costs from other programs."
There are now more than 15,000 government retirees statewide who receive pensions that exceed $100,000 a year, according to the California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility.
Many of these retirees are former police officers, firefighters, and prison guards who can retire at age 50 with a pension that equals 90% of their final year's pay. The pensions for these (and all other retirees) increase each year with inflation and are guaranteed by taxpayers forever—regardless of what happens in the economy or whether the state's pensions funds have been fully funded (which they haven't been).
A 2008 state commission pegged California's unfunded pension liability at $63.5 billion, which will be amortized over several decades. That liability, released before the precipitous drop in stock-market and real-estate values, certainly will soar.
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