Comments on: THE RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER http://thetexasring.com/2010/03/07/the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-poorer/ Common Sense In A Ridiculous World Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:21:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tony http://thetexasring.com/2010/03/07/the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-poorer/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Tony Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:32:08 +0000 http://thetexasring.com/?p=192#comment-252 Cheri, Many thx for the compliment. Also, thx for the recognition to your friends. There is no need for it, but it is appreciated. We all do what we can to make the world a better place. If my writings help, that is reward enuff. The most important thing one can do with his life is "take control". Someday, wander downtown and glance in many of the stores. Observe the employees, particularly the older ones. How many of them thought at 21 that they would be working in such a situation at 45-50? Many were put there by circumstances, not by plan. rebel without a job, tony always, tony Cheri,

Many thx for the compliment.

Also, thx for the recognition to your friends. There is no need for it, but it is appreciated.

We all do what we can to make the world a better place. If my writings help, that is reward enuff.

The most important thing one can do with his life is “take control”. Someday, wander downtown and glance in many of the stores. Observe the employees, particularly the older ones. How many of them thought at 21 that they would be working in such a situation at 45-50? Many were put there by circumstances, not by plan.

rebel without a job,
tony

always,
tony

]]> By: CheriVNB http://thetexasring.com/2010/03/07/the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-poorer/comment-page-1/#comment-212 CheriVNB Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:43:36 +0000 http://thetexasring.com/?p=192#comment-212 Tony, Thanks for the many parables. I paraphrase and misquote them constantly trying to get my friends, coworkers and deadbeats within earshot to wake up and become more self-sufficient and responsible. Don't worry, I tell them where I read it and that they should check it out. I myself am working on making corrections in my actions and thinking. Cheri Tony,

Thanks for the many parables. I paraphrase and misquote them constantly trying to get my friends, coworkers and deadbeats within earshot to wake up and become more self-sufficient and responsible. Don’t worry, I tell them where I read it and that they should check it out. I myself am working on making corrections in my actions and thinking.

Cheri

]]> By: Tony http://thetexasring.com/2010/03/07/the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-poorer/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Tony Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:29:41 +0000 http://thetexasring.com/?p=192#comment-198 Soon it will be spring in Texas, and every day it seems a new breed of wildflower will appear over night…We read at least a book a day each…What does Warren Buffet have that we don’t? ulcers and huge demands on his time Soon it will be spring in Texas, and every day it seems a new breed of wildflower will appear over night…We read at least a book a day each…What does Warren Buffet have that we don’t?

ulcers and huge demands on his time

]]> By: Linda Brady Traynham http://thetexasring.com/2010/03/07/the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-poorer/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Linda Brady Traynham Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:15:54 +0000 http://thetexasring.com/?p=192#comment-187 Great, as always, Tony, and Jack got plenty of exercise and had ample time to think. We'll give Jack a pass on who owned the wood he cut! The ideal job is one you love so much you can scarcely believe they LET you do it, far less PAY you to do it. The important parts are having a job, doing it well, and recognizing that money has three purposes: FIRST you plan for the future; then you take care of current living expenses; if there is anything left over, spend it happily. I am appalled at the "I don't have to go to work today;" there's a fellow who would help himself to someone else's property if times got really hard. Charles and I regard ourselves as extremely well off for the same reason you do: we don't want anything reasonable that we can't have. Alas, I cannot have several gaudy toys (such as Liz Taylor caliber diamond and emerald earrings from Harry Winston), but I don't really want them and even more I don't want to have to get up and go the sort of places they would be appropriate to wear. We virtually never have to do anything we don't want to do, we don't race rats, we love our animals and the country--and each other!--and the hands do all the work except thinking. I guess that makes me a bloated plutocrat? Except...the hands love their jobs (and us) and have far more leisure than those they know. The cow doesn't care WHEN she gets milked and fed so long as it happens twice a day. The little goat girls don't care when they get their bottles of milk so long as they do. Cass Sunstein couldn't find an animal on the place that wants to sue is. Soon it will be spring in Texas, and every day it seems a new breed of wildflower will appear over night...We read at least a book a day each...What does Warren Buffet have that we don't? Great, as always, Tony, and Jack got plenty of exercise and had ample time to think. We’ll give Jack a pass on who owned the wood he cut! The ideal job is one you love so much you can scarcely believe they LET you do it, far less PAY you to do it.

The important parts are having a job, doing it well, and recognizing that money has three purposes: FIRST you plan for the future; then you take care of current living expenses; if there is anything left over, spend it happily.

I am appalled at the “I don’t have to go to work today;” there’s a fellow who would help himself to someone else’s property if times got really hard.

Charles and I regard ourselves as extremely well off for the same reason you do: we don’t want anything reasonable that we can’t have. Alas, I cannot have several gaudy toys (such as Liz Taylor caliber diamond and emerald earrings from Harry Winston), but I don’t really want them and even more I don’t want to have to get up and go the sort of places they would be appropriate to wear. We virtually never have to do anything we don’t want to do, we don’t race rats, we love our animals and the country–and each other!–and the hands do all the work except thinking. I guess that makes me a bloated plutocrat? Except…the hands love their jobs (and us) and have far more leisure than those they know. The cow doesn’t care WHEN she gets milked and fed so long as it happens twice a day. The little goat girls don’t care when they get their bottles of milk so long as they do. Cass Sunstein couldn’t find an animal on the place that wants to sue is.

Soon it will be spring in Texas, and every day it seems a new breed of wildflower will appear over night…We read at least a book a day each…What does Warren Buffet have that we don’t?

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