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You let a little thing like that get in the way of success? I take back my compliment. You're not the best. You sound like a typical whining loser. "I don't like to write, so the government owes me a living!" Get off your butt and make something of yourself.
LOL wow. Did you have to put your head between your legs and up your backside to spin it like that. Obviously a fly by that didn't make any sense.
You could get a 2nd job. Oh, that's right, if you do you'll have to pay a chunk of it to the government. As you work your butt off, as your income goes higher the government wants a bigger percentage. Going after the rich doesn't help YOU. Government taking LESS... YOU keeping more of what YOU make will help you.
I have SHIFT constraints because of frequent daytime medical appointments. It means I have limited 8-hour blocks of time to work a full shift. That is one reason I'm trying to get as much online work as I can, as that is work I can do at any time and does not require a full 8 consecutive hours of availabaility. I'm in the 10% tax bracket so I'm not facing a high marginal tax rate.
Most rich people are rich because they serve others well. They offer value, something other people want and are willing to pay for. "As a result" of serving others, they become rich.
Poor are only concerned with serving themselves. Thats why they are called "takers".
Think about it.
I was right. I looked at the subject line and thought, this should be good for a laugh.
The average person dreams of becoming rich, but with no idea how to get there.
I'd say it's more like "the average person dreams of being rich, but doesn't want to do the things it takes to become rich."
My godfather was a guy with a middle- to upper-middle-class income who lived for 40 years like a lower-middle-class guy and put the rest away in investments. He lived in a house well below his means, drove used Buicks, eschewed extravagant vacations, and was generally frugal in every way, even as his portfolio value grew beyond seven figures. When he finally retired, he bought a near-mansion home and his-n-hers Jaguars. People look at him now and say "I'd like to be like that when I retire." But few have the discipline to do what he did to get there.
Most people don't recognize the value of compounding, and of those who do many don't realize it soon enough in life. $500 a month invested at 7% for 40 years would yield a nest-egg of over $1.3 million dollars. If you wait until you're 45 and do the same for only 20 years, you'll only have a little over $250,000.
The poor are waiting for politicians to legislate their prosperity. The middle class is waiting to be rescued from financial mediocrity.
The wealthy know no one is coming to the rescue.
Why would they need to be rescued since they are the ones who control the politicians who make the rules in the first place. When was the last time a middle-class citizen became president without the backing of some wealthy people?
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and he is right.
