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We are in a holding pattern. This week has been marked by days of intense business with land purchase dealings, finance institutions, and creditors. At this point we are waiting to find out whether we will be able to receive a loan or whether we will have to zap our savings in order to purchase this piece of land. The comfort in this waiting period comes from the realisation that we will be able to purchase the land if the financing falls through.

Taking no small part in our credit woes are my mounds of student loan debt. I have been feeling more and more disillusioned with the university system as the last few years have ticked by. I can't help but feel that there is an inherent fallacy in supporting the idea that a college education will facilitate a better quality of life. In our society it seems to mostly facilitate reliance on a class system that one can never truly be free from. For the vast majority of Americans the reality is that we die as members of the same class that we are born into. The amount of work you put into a day does not necessarily determine your chances of success. Some of the hardest working men and women I know are constantly struggling to keep their financial necks above water.

Things really haven't changed much in our country over the last few hundred years when it comes to the haves and have nots. The people with political power hold the vast majority of the nations wealth and with that they reserve the right to make the rules up as they go. Giving themselves special privileges while writing laws to discourage their competition. They create lop sided taxes to levy hard earned dollars from private citizens and small business owners while throwing fist fulls of cash at corrupt business executives and war mongers. They tell us that if we work hard enough, if we go to college, if we keep quiet, we will get a little slice of the pie. So we do this and we think "this is the right thing to do and this is being responsible" but we walk out more hopelessly reliant on this tilted system than ever before. This is another of the reasons for our current life plan. I feel that the only way out of the cycle is to play a different game than they are playing. Stop relying on the self value images that they force feed us through media and advertisement. Find things to value in our lives that do not fall within the category of material possession.