Doing research has been pretty eye opening.

A very bright man here in Genesee County once told me pointing out things people don’t want to hear is not being negative, it is being educational. Any thriving community learns from its’ mistakes.

I know I can be over the top when pointing out the obvious and people have come to not like Buddy because I hit them to close to home sometimes. I am only trying to help.

I have two favorite movies right now, Idiocracy & Maxed-Out. Why? Because I love the human race, I love people and all the great things each individual brings, their strengths & weaknesses, passions & fears. Unfortunately these movies may not be movies they be predictors. If you watch Idiocracy twice and don’t see it happening around you, you might be the problem.

Note: Idiocracy contains some lewd material and profanity and is not for everyone, they use this to prove the point but it may offend some.

For those who have seen it: I was walking thoughtlessly through a retail store the other day totally numbed by the Muzac when I heard the monotone voice of the computer generated “customer service optimizer” say “please move to check out 5, please move to check out five there is no waiting” I immediately laughed and thought of Carl’s JR.

Have three hours to kill check these movies out, eye opening and thought provoking.

Maxed out really troubles me, it does a great job of showing the pattern of “victimhood” we hear about. People are put in positions to fail, some by free will & others because they trusted someone. The people that were duped bother me the most. I see this everyday in this town; I would bet 60% of the foreclosures in this town could have been prevented by loan officers and mortgage companies doing the right thing. A good portion of the rest was flat out fraud; People doing the wrong thing intentionally for profit, at the costs of others.

These investors and flippers profited at the costs of communities and families, which is flat out sick. The worst part is most of the money “stolen” has been spent on real life improving items like cars, boats, and other solid investments.

People can only help themselves; Buddy can only bring up the “negatives”.