So to recap: You took responsibility for yourself, made a plan, worked, created opportunity and have noone to bitch at?
Yes! Yes you can!
I am always amazed to see that there are still people capable of using there God given gift of reason. And to find them on a Reefer forum..... there is hope for this world still.
You sure you're not my long lost brother or something? lol! I grew up fairly poor as well. Shared a bedroom with my 2 brothers with no AC in the summer and space heater in the winter because we didn't have central heat either. Just a woodstove in the corner of the downstairs. We would sometimes turn on our gas oven and open the door in the winter just for heat. I love my parents and I treasure my childhood (for the most part), but I wanted better for myself and my family. I worked hard and I now own a small business and I'm doing quite well in spite of the recession. Sure, it's taken its toll on us but we've managed and are emerging stronger than ever. Opportunites are everywhere. You just have to learn to spot them and take action before they pass you up. Getting ahead is never easy, but it's not impossible as some would have us believe.
Translation: I know you are but what am I.
I understand it. I understand it is just a theory. I understand we don't have a free market here at all. Again, you're speaking in theory while I'm talking about something different, reality.
Right, because I support a tax system like the one we had with notorious communists Eisenhower and Nixon.
$1-2k and a lawyer does all that shit for you in an afternoon. So easy.
If you think it's dumb, pronouncing it dumb without an explanation is not the way to make your case. That's something dumb people do.
The bottom line of many companies during this recession and the fact that many have failed would seem to indicate otherwise.
It's not a personal issue. It's a larger issue. Social mobility is at an all time low. The gap between the rich and the rest of us is at an all time high. We are going to a place economically where you won't have the option of working hard and providing a good life for yourself. We are shifting towards a two class system of ultra-wealthy and the working poor.
The unprecedented amount of wealth held by the ultra-wealthy tells the tale.The bottom line of many companies during this recession and the fact that many have failed would seem to indicate otherwise.
The progressive agenda would likely have us living in a similar fashion, with 2 classes: The ruling, political class and the working poor. I agree things are fucked up but killing the goose that lays the golden egg hardly seems like the solution to the problem. Painting the "wealthy" as the devil isn't solving a thing. There will always be the have's and have not's. The have not's will always envy the have's. Seems kinda like what's going on here.
I am not a far right winger I am a LIberal..... and Yes you are correct, Nixon and Eisonhower were Pinko's.
Maybe it's because I've never been super rich to know what I'm missing to care, but I do know what it's like to be dirt poor so I appreciate what I have.
And lets not forget that a School loan never goes away until it gets paid. Bankruptcy cannot extinguish the debt of a school loan, the Government WILL make you pay. Even if things get really hard, you can defer the loans, but the interest just adds to the Principal, so as soon as you are back on your feet you now have a even larger amount to pay, all the while interest accrues. Great way to turn free and independent people into wage slaves.
You are right, the Rich have wealth, the poor think that Dollars are wealth, and so the deception goes.
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