Status Quo

What are we fighting for?
Do you even know anymore?
Will you run when the sky crashes down?
The writings on the wall we can't ignore.

Where does the money go?
Do you even care to know?
You'll do anything for your status quo.

Keep your mouth shut and you'll be fine.
Keep your eyes on the floor.
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
So just don't rock the boat.

They're trying to hurt democracy.
So they can benefit financially.
Who's side will you stand on when the soldiers come?

Where does the water go?
Will all the oil turn to a black snow?
How expensive will fresh water be?
Will it cost the same for you and me?

Someday we'll have to pay for fresh air.
Someday there won't be any trees.
Till then just keep cruising in your SUV's.

No matter what I buy won't make me happy.
No matter what I own won't make me see.
There's no pill to take to fit in society.
Spare the rod, spoil the adult appropriately.

You'll do anything for your status quo
You'll say anything for your status quo
You'll hurt anyone for your status quo

We Got

Why're you making out like you had it raw
If you only knew what people do
Have you ever stopped to think of things you do
Sometimes doing the right thing it could hurt you too

It's not so bad you got it 'cause we got
SUV's and DVD's and VCD's and MP3's
PDA's, PVR's sat phone cell phone hydrocar

Why you making out like you had it lean
If you only knew where I've been
Have you ever stopped to think of things you seen
Sometimes doing thing right thing the will to intervene

It's not so bad you got it 'cause we got
SUV's and DVD's and VCD's and MP3's
PDA's, PVR's sat phone cell phone hydrocar

So the next time you're in doubt
Think of those who go without
It's not so bad.........
Slow down you're not that hot

What's The Deal?

I used to work sales. I have to say selling anything electronic to a baby boomer is one of the worst experiences in sales anyone could ever have the curse of going through. They always want to buy the cheapest piece of electronic crap they can find with no understanding of "you get what you pay for" when it comes to electronics. The thing about baby boomers is they were raised in a time when the bigger, badder, more energy using cars, trucks, vans, SUV's were the optimal purchase. So the end result is they don't think it strange to throw down sixty thousand dollars on a massive gas-guzzling street-terrorizing roadhog on four wheels and yet to them the idea of buying a four hundred dollar cell phone that takes high quality digital pictures, has internet access, takes high quality full motion video, holds videos, pictures, music and other things either frivolous or offensive. I remember verbally jousting with baby boomers insisting I drop the price of items such as Blackberry's or iPod's below cost because "It's just a little bit of plastic, it should be free anyway" almost like we should have had a bin so when you walk in the store you just grab a Blackberry on your way in and an iPod on your way out. They have no idea how much research and development that goes into each and every new item that comes out on todays' market. Maybe it's a generational gap of technological understanding. Most of them don't own them but want to but don't want to take the time to learn how to operate their own things. I remember one time a mother and her daughter came in to purchase a cell phone since the girl lost her cell and the mother was there to buy a replacement. I remember the daughter's total embarressment at her mother's harsh insistence that I give her a $279.99 cell phone for free since, "it's so small, how can it be that much? I don't want to pay." The girl was so embarressed and just told me, "sorry, my mom doesn't get it, at all." Well baby boomers, I have to say those little cell phones that can check the weather, check your facebook, look up googlemaps, do your banking or take videos and pictures in real time and send them online ARE worth the several hundred dollars and NO they are not free and never will be. The day they are will be the day General Motors and Ford give away brand new vehicles for free no questions asked. After all, a vehicle is "just" a bunch of metal, rubber and plastic. I remember the skin on my neck literally crawling when anyone over forty came to buy anything electronic.