I have written and published approximately 40 articles on various article submission websites in the last two months. I write on a variety of topics and to me it is very interesting what articles bring the most traffic.

Not all the websites I submit my articles too have stats for me to refer to but the ones that do offer valuable insight. The articles I write on politics and different kinds of investment options bring very little traffic. I also have counters on the articles on my own site and I get similar traffic on my site. People appear to be more interested in celebrity gossip, cars, Hot Wheels, and other hobbies than they are about how our country is run, their own financial position, or corporate issues.

I think hobbies are important this is why I have a hobbies page on my site. Hobbies offer a source stress relief, a way to relax and enjoy life. People get too caught up in the fast-paced world we live in and do not take time to wind down. So I am not saying the articles on hobbies are not important but the others certainly are too.

I originally titled the article A Dose of Reality because I thought it was me that needed to face reality, that most people are comfortable with the way their lives are going and do not want to face the difficult issues we will soon be faced with. As I am writing the article I now see it as a toss up. Maybe I am facing reality and it is most other people that do need to face reality and realize if we continue on the path we are on that we are headed for financial disaster.

If people continue to live beyond their means and rack up the debt what will happen if there is another recession? If the government continues to spend money at record pace what is going to happen if countries stop lending us money? How will we then finance the debt levels and spending? It is clear that the leaders of our country have no restraint at all when it comes money. And when you think about it, why should they? It is not their money, they are not held accountable for their irresponsibility, and when they retire they will live like royalty, on our tax dollars, for the rest of their lives.

Remember back to your elementary school days when you learned about the Revolutionary War and the development of our government? Do you think that the founders of our Constitution and the builders of our government intended things to turn out the way they have? Does anyone think that we, as people of the country, we were meant to have very little say over how our government is run as we do?

The United States government was set-up as a democracy. It was developed to give anyone the chance to run for office and be a leader of our country. This is not reality. Take the Presidential campaign for example. Since Ross Perot there have been many candidates for each election. He sort of made it possible for other parties to run. But, do they really have a fair chance? The Democrats and Republicans both receive Federal tax money to put toward their campaigns, no other party does. The Democrats and Republicans are often the only two parties allowed to participate in debates.

We are controlled by these two parties and as long as we continue to do things the way we have done them we will continue to get the results we have always gotten. As long as we continue to allow our Congress to pass laws allowing themselves to approve their own raises, allow our government to outsource the manufacturing of some of our most crucial defense weapons to Communist countries, allow our government to make deals with Arab countries to monitor our six biggest ports we will continue to face the same issues we face today.

The unfortunate part of this whole situation is people will not realize what is going on until they stop receiving Social Security checks or Medicaid stops covering life-saving medicines for the elderly. Maybe it will take another terrorist attack the size of 9/11 to wake people up.