And this shows you could care less about your fellow Americans who are struggling and hurting financially. smokin’ joe says “I gots mine, and eff you all while I keep you down.” Way to go smokin’ joe, way to go.
No. it doesn't show that at all.
The way I made it was working 5 years of mostly 14 hour days away from home on drilling locations to bring America cheap gasoline again so they could spend the extra 20 bucks a week on cheap Chinese made stuff. No holidays, no vacation time, self employed, few days off.
Break it down in hours, and I worked 11 years worth of 40 hour weeks in five years.
My stuff is paid off, but I live humbly, and I am living from job to job like anyone else.
During that period of prosperity I gave tens of thousands to charity, and truckloads of goods as well. My accountant chastized me for not keeping track of all that, and most of it did not get written off. I survived cancer in that time while still working, and worked surgery in around my work schedule. Some "days off". I also had a house fire--try working that schedule and coordinating contractors while you are 100 miles away. You don't know jack, but one thing is certain, I didn't "hold anyone down".
It says you can prosper even under a reprehensible regime, and I said I'd trade that prosperity (and the 400K+ total I paid in taxes) for having had a principled Conservative in the White House those five years. My net income, BTW, went from 250K/year to zero in a week when the success of our efforts became evident in the marketplace over a year ago, and I don't hear any pity for the tens of thousands of oilfield workers in the same boat.
smokin’ joe says “I gots mine, and eff you all while I keep you down.”
Not only is that NOT a quote from me, but "keep you down" is a socialist talking point. I didn't keep anyone "down".
Partly because of my efforts, and those of thousands like me, you are all paying half as much for gasoline as you were. How does that "keep you down?", or anyone for that matter? What y'all do with the extra you aren't shelling out for fuel is up to you.
Don't throw those OWS 'jewels' at me, leave them on the cop car. I'm not one of your 1%.