Induveca wrote:Other than the republican part, damn right. I support myself and my family.
i worked way too hard for MY money, and know governments and politicians far too well to fall for this type of scheme.....
I came from nothing in the Dominican Republic, left my parents home at 17 with under 100 dollars and have done very well.
Half my extended family in NYC scams the government via food stamp scams, welfare, unemployment etc. Take it away, then they work.
Socialist policies create mostly lazy unimaginative people, with their hands constantly extended. Eventually, it also creates excessively powerful central governments....and eventually semi-dictatorships.
Chavez used these same promises to capture the presidency in Venezuela. Play the "take from the rich" card, and screams 3rd world to me......
Induveca,
socialist policy didn't make those extended family members scammers. Parenting and environment is what molded them. Ultimately, their own character and work ethic is what determines how they subsist. That those options enable them to scam is true, as far as I am concerned. But it did not make them that way IMO.
Family molded you, too, Induveca. I don't know you but I would bet you $15,000.00--(probably nothing to you, but a whole lot to me), that your parents and/or your grandparents made sure you could read well at a very early age. You might have left with only $100 in your pocket but you had a lot of life lessons deposited in your heart and mind already by age 17. That you had reading skills your critical thinking skills also able to serve you well to become the successful entrepreneur that you are today. You worked hard but I bet you DID NOT do everything alone. In your formative years, someone influenced you.
The most successful man I know is my 81-year old dad. His mother ran off from his abusive, alcoholic dad when he was 5 and my late uncle was 7. They were split up. My dad went to his maternal grandmother and my uncle went to his paternal grandmother. That didn't last long. Within one year, the woman who taught my dad to read when he was 5 was murdered. They found her body in a river and the case went unsolved. My dad went to live with his brother. To make a long story short, my dad by being an early reader received what he needed to become much more successful than my uncle. My uncle became a hustler, at times a pimp. He was tall (about 6'1" or 6'2") and nice looking. Uncle Johnny was a funny, charming, but full of it. My dad only grew to be 5'9". He fought fights my uncle started. In the end after a successful military career he became and even more successful businessman. One worked legitimately for what he got and the other did not.
The thing my dad occasionally does is look down on people who are not successful economically. He knows how his brother hustled and bilked people, but dad also has looked down at times on me and my sisters for not being fairly rich as he is. Don't get me wrong, he is generous and always there in love, advice, and support for you. But he's at times a guy who lives in an ivory tower. When I was in town for Father's day years back, I didn't meet his rich friends. My sister and I often feel he forgot his own humble beginnings.
Induveca, you've always impressed me and regardless of how you take this, I know you are not my dad and forgive me for making any comparisons. My dad is a student of history and social sciences, and he remembers before the military that he was well on his way to being a hustler and a scammer himself. My late mother pretty much signed him up for the military against his will. They shipped him off later to Vietnam a couple times. He changed immediately when he was in the service. His environment allowed him to go from enlisted to officer to flight school.
I think you're just more fortunate than your relatives who are scamming, Induveca. You can love the Republican party and that is your choice and right. Personally, I think they're going to create a class system even worse than what it already is. We will see.
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