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> Subject: FW: We have no contrast
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> It is remarkable once you think about it that we don’t consider this prosperity. I
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> think the problem is that we are always comparing to people who have more as
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> opposed to those who have less especially around the rest of the world.
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> Envy , one of the 7 Capital sins.
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> This article was written by Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in graduate school for her
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> MBA. Definitely worth a read.
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> “My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us. I’m sitting in a small coffee
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> shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my news feed
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> on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies
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> to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look
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> around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an
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> instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged
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> time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it.
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> Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.
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> These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.
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> We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the
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> global average. Thirty-One Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global
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> standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at
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> our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.Our unappreciation
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> is evident the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial
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> generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America,
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> came of age and never saw American prosperity.” Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.
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> When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and
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> factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree
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> with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream
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> narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college,
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> let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.Why then, with all of the overwhelming
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> evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this
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> We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly
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> impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a
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> result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
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> Why?
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> The answer is this, my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live
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> in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see
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> the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t know what it’s like to live without
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> the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem.
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> We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague."

We are getting a new parish priest from Uganda. I haven't met him yet, but when I do I will welcome the man from a land of material poverty to the land of spiritual poverty. And wish him good luck because I think his job is going to be a lot harder here.

I'd say that priest is walking into a target-rich environment.

The article is spot on. People seem to think only about what others have that they do not. They should be thinking about what they have that others do not.

I still remember what it was like in the 50s when a family of eight would live in a three bedroom, 1400 square foot home with a ten year old Chevy in the driveway, and MAYBE a black-and-white television set and one or two bicycles for the kids to share. The material wealth we DISCARD these days is staggering in comparison.

These are the exact thoughts of most of our young people in our country.
Your new priest may bring new thoughts to your young people.

Yup, we got our first TV in 1956 in Fairbanks, Alaska. We got to watch a lot of test pattern.

He is going to have to be VERY blunt. People are so used to being soft-peddled they think they can game God.

Based on what I've gathered from experience and from listening to some older guys who were quite wise and from folks who've seen a lot; I've come to the conclusion that there's too many spoiled people nowadays................ Spoiled rotten, to be exact. So many of whom could only be described as being too " fat, dumb, and happy". Privileged, entitled, lazy, spoiled brats who have matured into adulthood. A large voting block of gullible fools who might just eventually transform America into yet another Utopian socialist dictatorship. But that's entirely OK because it's the will of the people, right?, and it also comes with all kinds of free stuff.

Paradox.

Just curious - how many low wage illegal alien workers you have working in your daddy's auto-service business?

LOL! Karl, you are so jealous!
Green (with envy) does not look good on you.

Pull your head out of Butch's ass - he won't do anything for you...

ANYONE that hires ANYONE other than a Genuine American - is handing this country to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer - P E R I O D.

Nothing to do with jealously at all.

That young lady appears to have a very good head on her shoulders. She has some other very insightful pieces @ https://alphanewsmn.com/author/alyssa-ahlgren/

Well AZZHAT, I opened my present business 40 years ago. I had an elderly Hispanic man work for me for a few years. One of his Sons came to work for me when he received his legal papers, His oldest Son came next when he received his papers, I had the youngest Son work for me part time when he was in High School. I also employed 2 Grandsons during High School. Pop worked part time the last year and retired. The two older Brothers worked for 35 years and retired from my shop. The youngest brother went to work for a large spotwelding company and now travels the USA and Foreign countries trouble shooting and helping install machines. One of the Grandsons that worked for me is out of school and is a Pharmicist and the other is a Fine Arts Director at a high school.
Believe it or not AZZHAT, they were paid the same as my other mechanics "techs as they are called now". You know what? They all are homeowners, drive new cars, and have either put their children through college or some are still in college. And strangely enough, they are true conservatives.
I see that you are back to trolling the forum as you have done on several other forums. You must live a very sad life and have little to no self-esteem. How did the special thread about you set in your stomach?

My answer would have been: NONE, and I will invite ICE / E-verify down here today to verify it...

Get with it AZZHAT! Evidently you are not capable of owning and operating a business. We have had mandatory paperwork for "ALL" employee's citizenship status. This is a Fed requirement.
Let me add this, I have been audited by the state and Feds and am good to go and my unemployment rate is the lowest that my company is billed by the state. Must be because I've never had a claim for unemployment compensation claim or a workers comp claim in my 40yrs.

I want it all...He who dies with the most toys loses all the toys.

My philosophy professor (favorite subject) told me I missed my calling and should have been a lawyer because he never met anyone that could see through bullshit as fast or as accurately as I could - and HE held (may he Rest In Peace) PhD's in Philosophy, Theology, AND English...

And he had one student hook line and sinker.......

Wisdom!

One day at the end of a class I stood up and told him in front of the entire class that I wished the class could be 8-hours long instead of only 1-hour. He looked at me like I was totally insane.

3.8 GPA - yeah, I'm bragging, sorta like low wage illegal alien employing Biotch rubbing his old gun photos in everyone's face on any thread he can find.