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That's right, lie on your ass and bitch for handouts, or by god get up, pull your boots on and go make it happen! it's a piece of cake. exactly! and i believe you have hit the nail on the head. i too believe that. but got dealt a near critical blow when i had done all of that which you suggest. then the us gov't stepped in and attempted to give me a death blow. the gov't rules you and i. work or not, you and i are still under the control of the gov't. if you forget that, you're risking your very life. I have never accepted no for an answer, and whupped ol caint till he could, but, in the global big picture, there's not a better place to have been born, reared and careered in. This is why America is, and will remain, #1 mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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That's right, lie on your ass and bitch for handouts, or by god get up, pull your boots on and go make it happen! it's a piece of cake. exactly! and i believe you have hit the nail on the head. i too believe that. but got dealt a near critical blow when i had done all of that which you suggest. then the us gov't stepped in and attempted to give me a death blow. the gov't rules you and i. work or not, you and i are still under the control of the gov't. if you forget that, you're risking your very life. I have never accepted no for an answer, and whupped ol caint till he could, but, in the global big picture, there's not a better place to have been born, reared and careered in. Gunner, ole Warren Buffett’s comments mirrored yours to a tee when he was asked about the disparities. Said, “When I was born I had a 1 in 68,000 chance of being born here as an American citizen. No one born here should waste that blessing “. Nuff said.
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.
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Shrewdness pays better than wisdom.
Never holler whoa or look back in a tight place
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Shrewdness pays better than wisdom. I can’t help but think about the Book of Proverbs here. Grins
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Shrewdness pays better than wisdom. I can’t help but think about the Book of Proverbs here. Grins I wrote that too. 😀
Never holler whoa or look back in a tight place
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I enjoy listening to people bitch about the people that have more money than they do, it's damn entertaining to listen to a person come up with all kinds of excuses to not see their own short comings.
Fuqking whiny ass crybabies.
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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I enjoy listening to people bitch about the people that have more money than they do, it's damn entertaining to listen to a person come up with all kinds of excuses to not see their own short comings.
Fuqking whiny ass crybabies. We only have to look back at the last 2 elections to see what you’re describing here. There’s the proof and the whiners are gaining the majority.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Then there are different kinds of rich.
Raising a good family, storing wealth in Heaven, more perhaps.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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That's right LVMiker and Old Toot, we are blessed that the first swat we got on the butt was right here, either on US dirt or by citizenship for those Americans born abroad!
Trump Won!
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You don't unscrew the caps off bottles you discard in the trash for the atmospheric moisture they rob do you? Damnit Gus, where'd you go? I no chit just got home from the pharmacy, should I bitch about the cost I just paid for a bottle of estrogen so everyone I come in contact with is safe? Is the atmosphere and/or organic only useful to you when it pleases a purpose?
Trump Won!
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Do not increase your income--- decrease your needs
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why don't the poor work much harder so they too can become rich?
if i was born rich, i'd work to hold onto my inherited or worked for wealth.
as a poor individual, i'd wish i'd had parents who were more rich.
let's see: to live in this world here are the possibilities?
to be born rich.
to inherit wealth.
to work for wages and income.
to create wealth from the natural resources of the urth.
to steal, rape, and plunder?
to invent something the masses are willing to die for?
why not just discover a gold mine, maybe silver or uranium? "Poor people" are often born into an environment that doesn't allow them to see anything that you think everyone sees. The idea of achieving something higher is a dream and nothing else.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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There's a lot to be said,
about having the advantage to pick your parents.
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I was blessed to have parents who told me if I wanted something, work for it.
And the most important part, they showed me what it looked like.
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Obey lawful commands. Video interactions. Hold bad cops accountable. Problem solved.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I was blessed to have parents who told me if I wanted something, work for it.
And the most important part, they showed me what it looked like.
P When your Dad walks up to the dining table before supper is served , picks up your plate and breaks it in half,,,,well,,there’s a subtle message there.
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There is unlimited opportunity in the US. Work hard and make wise choices and you can be very successful. Being born poor doesn't prevent success. If one be born poor like Dolly Parton, but blessed with such rare natural assets as Dolly, getting rich becomes far easier. but what does say a scrawny flat chested buck tooth no chin no education runt of the litter hillbilly do to get rich?
-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.
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why don't the poor work much harder so they too can become rich? Working smarter usually gets people far richer than working harder. to invent something the masses are willing to die for?
yeh, just sell them the idea [or illusion] of freedom. fight for freedom on foreign soil , while you own gov goes about trying to deny you your own liberties and freedoms on home soil.
-Bulletproof and Waterproof don't mean Idiotproof.
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There is unlimited opportunity in the US. Work hard and make wise choices and you can be very successful. Being born poor doesn't prevent success. If one be born poor like Dolly Parton, but blessed with such rare natural assets as Dolly, getting rich becomes far easier. but what does say a scrawny flat chested buck tooth no chin no education runt of the litter hillbilly do to get rich? Become a televangelist.
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My grandparents took 160 acres of desert sagebrush, dug irrigation ditches, planted crops and turned it into a nice little dairy farm with 40 Guernsey cows. They raised six kids in a two bedroom house, and were able to purchase a couple rental houses over the years. They raised almost everything the family ate, and had a presentable car and dress clothes for church every week, and they paid Tithe "religiously".
They were able to sell property off a bit at a time to support them self through their golden years which lasted until they were 95.
My parents got divorced and sold their property when they were about 50 and went on SSI $350/month each and Medicaid. Dad is 88 this year and Mom will be 82.
You make your choices and you live with the results.
Me, I started a blue collar job and stayed with it until I was shift foreman. Been foreman for 32 years now. In a couple years I will retire with 20% higher annual income than I ever made working. Even with a bunch of overtime.
I count my blessing that I was not born in a subsaharan hut, trying to keep the lions from eating the cow by use of a sharpened stick, and never knowing when the guerrilla gangs would come by with their AK47s to rape my wife and daughters and kill or kidnap my sons.
And I do not waste ANY time worrying that Bill Gates of Jeff Bezos might have it better than I.
In short, we live in the best lands in the world, and at the best time in history. I suspect things may not be so rosey for my grandkids or their kids.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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don't forget that the average person cannot live above average
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