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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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> as prosperity?
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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.

Rob Jordan has many faces.

He doesn't pay off lost bets, but he's still a lowlife.

3.8 in what?

3.8 overall GPA - refused to answer the homosexual indoctrination questions on my Psychology Final so I lost a few 10ths.

What major?

That was not a compliment

Engineering, minor in Philosophy ASU. Are we playing a game now?

Gee officer, I swear I did not know those papers were FAKE. I mean, I swear!

No unemployment or workman's comp claims in 40-years of Auto Service???? A person cannot claim unemployment or workman's comp when they get paid cash - under the table.

I have work to do - enjoy yourselves.

This read is spot on!

His life certainly won't be harder here. This is not a land of spiritual poverty. Many are rich in the spirit, but there is a pall upon us as Satan is being allowed to rise up these last days and steal who he can.

I think you have quickly reached the FOAD time.

You're the one who bragged about GPA.

Which branch of engineering, and what degree?

I have a Masters in pfhhuck you I don't owe you any answers for chit - you're a moron on an internet forum and I am not applying for a job with you, dumb ass. Next you'll ask me for my social security number then act like a 14-yr old girl when I decline...

Pfhhucking geniuses, I swear.

Nah. It's just that those who actually received degrees in engineering usually say which branch. "What was your major?" "Civil engineering." "Cool, me too."

Obviously, you have confused that with being psychic. Psychic you are not.

Janitorial

Yeah well, unfortunately, things don't always go the way we want them to so, I guess you'll just have to deal with it, bro.

Hey Carl,

How fast were you with that .45 Creedmore?

I'm still waiting on him to make his threat good... Where he said he was going to take my 1911 away from me and beat me with it.

Guess he didn't wanna be famous!

He's nothing but a blowhard troll.

Funny he says he's got an engineering degree though... Chris Darnell (Stripbuckhunter) was an engineer. Lots of similarities between those two.

Did he?

That's true from what I have seen, also.

QK, it sounds like you're the kind of guy whose biggest accomplishment in life has been to get a 3.8 GPA and a Master's degree in something or another. Hint: Success as a student does not mean squat, what you do with your education is what matters. Ragging on another man's accomplishments says more about you than it does him.

Hmmm... maybe you want to address this to Biotch, who has been raining on every rifle tread he comes across for almost 20-years now.

Just sayin...

And only a total retard like you would stalk an internet forum, convinced that I am someone other than my sweet little self, because I make you look like the pfhhhhucking old retard you are every time you post?

Slayed any elk lately Karl?

No - when I was invited to hunt Elk by a White Mountain Apache tribe member, I wasn't all that interested in hunting elk, and I still aint. There is only a small amount of excellent meat on an elk and I would never waste one just to get two back-straps... Also - I didn't have the slightest clue at the time that it was, in fact, a spectacular trophy hunting offer that most of y'all could only dream of, and that The Nudge was paying bank to hunt there!

Furthermore, when I told a few head-hunting friends back in AZ about that offer, they nearly fell over, and THAT is when I learned the significance of it, and that The Nudge paid bank to hunt there. However, I DID get to go fly fishing for small-mouth on the Black River - caught at least 15-smallies that day. It was beyond a beautiful day, in beyond a beautiful place. Even got to see ruins and petroglyphs that probably have zero meaning to you slobs.

Never killed any animal to hang its head on a wall, and never would. But I don't rag on people that do - it's a free country and within the law.

Maybe you should drive out to a res and tell those nasty ungrateful Injuns what dirt they are and see if you get an invite?

Karma is a funny pfhhhuckking thing, aint it?

Lastly, some of you "engineers" and "mathematicians" here ought to go back and re-read this thread, real pfhhucking slow like, and take notes.

OK, fun / lunch is over, back to work!

AOC is, like so many Democrats and liberals of all ilk, a closet socialist who is seeking to be recognized as a later day Robin Hood who will take from the rich and give to the poor.

Just got home from my shop of "illegal aliens" chuckle, chuckle! It appears that AZZHAT is still looking for his place. I love sticking the needle in the little fat feller. The more he posts shows how much I'm getting to him and also the good impression he is making on this and other forums.
Yes, I am lucky to have a few nice rifles. If you save your money for the next 10-20 years, maybe you could buy a used one, the good smiths would never deal with you.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

"There is only a small amount of excellent meat on an elk and I would never waste one just to get two back-straps..."

That comment right there proves just how full of S H I T you are. I've been hunting elk exclusively since 2010 and have no desire to return to that garbage sold in stores called meat. Haven't had a bad piece of elk meat yet. Will probably eat some tonight if I get it thawed out in time. If not tomorrow night for sure. I'd invite your sorry ass but I'm afraid you'd be bad company.
Paul B.

Dumb ass - I would never accept an invite from a moron like you - it would be an insult to the concept of intelligence...

I had been given some elk hamburger previously, by one of the folks that nearly fell over upon hearing the invite story, and could not believe how bad it smelled when I cooked it - I thew it out. I did not grow up eating GAME MEAT, jack-wagon. I had back straps given to me a few times and they were awesome. According to the providing Great White Hunter (who laughed is ass off when I told him what happened to the hamburger - told me I had to cook it OUTSIDE) - hamburger was all you could do with the rest of an elk.

I've had Antelope back straps that I ordered from Broken Arrow Ranch - unbefuckinglievably good - I could eat that every day!

So, eat chit.

Making lots of friends here...

I guess that 3.8 didn't help him much when it comes to wild game meats and cuts.

The last thing I need want is a friend like you - after reading some of you and your butt-bud's posts about Black folks, Mexicans, and Native Americans - you are less than dogchit to me. I would stand with any of them over you, any day of the year.

You better go get your Bible and beat yourself to death with it.

Still waiting on you to make your threat good about taking my 1911 away from me and beating me with it.

When you wanna try that, little girl?

I'll take that excuse for your tiny dick away from you and smash your teeth in with it. Now go call some Texas Rangers to come beat me up because you're a fool on an internet forum.

Don't need any help to deal with the likes of you.

All blow and no show.

Keep posting more real threats. I love those. Especially coming from you... directed at your betters.

You should just give up, and walk-away - try to preserve what little dignity I might let you keep. You can't beat me at this - I am the John Wick of it.

GFY quicky

Yeah.

You're showing everyone here who the real Psycho is alright.

Please continue.

Suckpuppet.

I believe that it is time to stop feeding the troll and put him on ignore.

Quicky sounds like a real badass. But farts can sound bad too.

You do not want qk over 'cause he'll show up chit faced. See the link The Quick Karl

Trust me - farts smell much worse!