Posted on 09/14/2020 3:32:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway
My family immigrated to the US in the mid 60's and were very poor. We live in apartments that were run down. A floor above us live a doctor with his family. They could have afforded a great house an a gated neighborhood. One of his kids had some social development problems and he wanted him to grow up surrounded by other kids (all of us ran around with our hair on fire, back in those days) instead of isolated in the rich neighborhood. Great dad!
So, after all that she finally comes to realize that money cannot buy happiness.
“et them starve, live every day on a knife’s edge wondering if they’ll be able to pay the electric bill or make that month’s mortgage payment,”
they do, and that’s what the article is actually about. The so-called rich are always under assault to take their money from them. Nothing like federal and State IRS offices coming at you to take more, more, more. Nothing like your investments being under assault to wipe you out. Nothing like country property taxes being raised to where you are paying $50,000 a year and county commissioners being paid off to eminent domain your property out from under you by a land developer.
I could go on, but to think only you have money problems is just ignorance.
Look at yourself when you speak of ignorance. I never said that “only I” had money problems. Nor did I say I have them now.
“I do want people like them to be able to comprehend “
That’s just nothing but pure ignorance there.
“Like them”? They are you and you are them.
People are rarely born rich. people with money lived poor and broke as anyone. I know of no one that was born rich. Everyone with money that I know lived on nothing, missed rent payments, had cars repossessed, most filed bankruptcy at some point, and ate Ramen noodles to get by.
To claim they do not comprehend what it is like to be broke is liberal style ignorance of hating the rich and thinking they have always had it easy. They didn’t have it easy and they still don’t.
It’s all a big tax dodge, but I own. But lease the engines.
Or something.
I took one international flight after 9/11 and couldn’t take it any more.
Yahoo has articles about money problems of people making 6 figures. When they had comments there was no sympathy.
I have always been er... not rich. I now have some stock that may get me to finally find out how the rich live : )
I always thought the rich were people who never had to worry about what they spent.
All my relatives for the most part are well off, had good paying jobs and have lived frugally. They are starting to retire now and have money to but I suspect will still live frugally. One of my cousins says he makes between $8 to $11,000 a month retired. He owns a nice home he built with his college friends. He said he would be rich but he is still paying his ex-wife....
I do have a cousin who married a guy when both were young, who later made a fortune at Goldman Sacks. They have 2 big homes. One in the Hampton’s. Maybe they have complaints about being rich : )
I hope to have a nicer place to live at. A lake home with a pontoon boat is my dream.
My sister who is poor and never saved any money asked me to pay for her cat’s medical bill. Did you know that pet doctors gotta be rich as the bill I paid was expensive. I told her she could get free kittens anywhere.
Goldman Sachs....
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