All men are not created equal. Especially the ones with boobs.

We need janitors, teachers, principles, and students. Each one serves their purpose to society. Noone should be taken advantage of because they were born stupid. Stupid also gets born with a huge trust full of money, gets into ivy league schools becuase of their name and a good job because they partied with the right person. Money goes to money and stupid can build you something beautiful. They just didn't get the same breaks and will never get the same breaks.

Its funny cause its true. I can be an asshole. It works for me.

 

Sorry for spamming the board. I am on a laxitive diet so I am in and out alot today.

 

Ur right, I better just give up right now.

 

Thats a very narrow view of things, college does not an entrepeneur make.

 

Karen, obviously the rich and powerful have taken everything and sapped your strength to get ahead. Perhaps you should give up too.

 

OR... we can say SCREW THEM, stand up, fight, get ahead in SPITE of them and preach less govt.

 

OR... complain some more about poverty and poor people.

 

I know which route I'm taking.

 

http://www.lyved.com/success/5-rags-to-riches-stories/

 

The main issue I have with Obama is... as soon as I eventually.. do get... ahead.. He's gonna tax me ..right back down.

 

The main point of the post.

Come on, you and a high school kid are not the same. If that kid is 40 years old and still isn't trying then I have no heart for him.

VERY true [Saoileam tha thu ag ràdh rium!]

You, however, graduated Summa cum Laude from The University of Skinning! Gaudeamus Igitur!

 

No... I didn't, i worked my ass off for 7 years, day and night, month, years on end in my crappy 12*8 room in a crappy trailer in a crappy neighborhood and will not stop until I am out of where I am now, If I wasnt sknning , I was reading up on business, marketing, advertising, success stories, motivational speakers, in short... trying to make my own destiny, I now have a new (redesigned) commercial site that I'm almost ready to launch, promotional emails and presentations I have spent months on and fully intend on making my way by hook or by crook into a better life. I have done no sitting around feeling sorry for myself because 'the man' was getting richer off every trip to walmart or Macdonalds.

 

This country needs to get back to the principles of hard work equals a good days pay... instead of Im poor, I'm entitled to someone else supplementing my existence.

 

Y'all will appreciate this.... one of my designs for a corporate gadget.

 

http://www.maxstyles.com/vstyler/Beck.jpg

Please excuse that commercial interruption.

I'll make it clear I understand that many folks are poor legitimately, I do my share of donating what little I can to who I can, when I can...usually russian elderly Jews or hungry african children, I find both tragically sad.

 

but there are a WHOLE LOT of deadbeats... too and they are typically the ones doing the complaining and acting entitled.... so much so... It's becoming a culture.

My favorite quote about Glenn Beck-

"Finally, a guy who says what people who aren't thinking are thinking!"
--Jon Stewart,

I've told jojo25, "be part of an angry mob" is at the top of my bucket list right now.  I'm all for standing up and fighting, because I can't think of anything else to do, and I don't have the temperament sit down, shut up and take it.  I bitch, therefore I am.

Honestly, John, I don't know what the answer is -- it's either less government or a different government, because the one we have now has had it's little experiment for 200+ years and it doesn't seem to be working out for the majority of us, and we exist IN SPITE of it's existence, not because of it.

I think the problem is bigger than our country; it's a world-wide thing, and I'm just going to keep on, keepin' on, occasionally stand up and screem, sometimes throw stuff, fantasize about anarchy and revolution and pet the dog when I can't think of anything else to make me feel better.

As far as your inspiring stories about rags to riches...you know there are just as many stories about people going from riches to rags, right?  All those stories do to me is remind me that there is no rhymn or reason to success, no formula, no benevolent being bestowing blessings on the faithful and curses on the infidel - and people are kinda chumps for not seeing the randomness of it all.

I'll keep trying, because, (as Bluto said in the classic movie, Animal House) "don't cost nothin" - and I'll try to hope for the best, but I'm also preparing for the worst.

 

 

probably why his ratings are... thru the roof...

 

In case you didn't know...as I doubt you watch him, He's also against bigger Govt. He's for getting back to what the Founder's wrote, the constitution... you should have a listen\watch sometime, he may pleasantly surprise you. 

 

Uvah may be right, there may be.. a revolution coming, certainly wouldn't surprise me.

 

Randomness is rampant in the universe, success, is usually.. earned.

I watch Beck on occasion. He is entertaining. Everyone stops to view the train wreck.

 

He has his good and bad points just like all the others.

Lose the negative and you'll have double the energy for the positive. If the worst happens deal with it but don't plan for it or you will only cause it to happen.

@v:

And I truly hope you do succeed. Your skills don't need a shmendrick like me to comment on...they're obvious. And Skinning U. was my way of saying so.

When I went to Israel, I knew 2 words of Hebrew and couldn't read it nor write it. My dad was Protestant, anf my mom Jewish. I never really 'chose' because I didn't wish to seem to reject one of them until my dad told me he didn't really believe...so, after college I went to Israel...I figured I earned it working thru school and a full scholarship- room, board and tuition. So, I went and learned. Two days short of a year there I was drafted. Became an officer and interviewed for med school. Made a diagnosis...was right and got in. Wasn't easy, but learned to speak, read and write as well as a native born more or less.

When I came back (dad got sick) I was treated like a second class citizen (medically). Proved myself all over again.

Next? Maybe I'll learn how to skin. Naaah...who am I kidding? I couldn't skin a grape. But I do love what you guys do....and truly envy that ability/talent.

So you better keep skinning. I don't know what I'd do without your skins, John and yours, Craig....and I ain't forgetting WebGizmo's either. I kinda think he's earned Master status...really.

John's just lucky I never got as serious as him with commercial skinning. He would be out of business by now.

 

Oh shooosh, you know I think your the best.

(behind Tiggz and probably even with Danillo)

Off for more OJ for muh wite Rushun's

Holy Crap. The Dark Knight is on HBO HD and here I am wasting my time with you all.

 

 

...wait a sec.... OJ??????????????????

Looks like your hard work paid off.  You earned where you are now.

I threw my arm out trying out for the St. Louis Cardinals. Went back to school. Dropped out for a construction job and worked my way to the top of my field. I could have cried over my misfortune in not making it to the big leagues but that that would just be bad energy wasted instead of looking for the positive.

Hell I even did most of it stoned so it really isn't all that hard to make a better life for yourself. You just have to want to.

31 days now clean after 30 years of being stoned. Yeah for me!

The economy really sucks, doesn't it?

OK -- here's my story.  When I had to hit the work force full time after my divorce, I got lucky.  I knew how to type, I had volunteered as an EMT in the middle of nowhere in Kansas so I was aware of medical vocabulary, and the hospital that advertized they were looking for medical transcriptionists took a chance on me despite the fact that I had no prior work experience in that field and didn't have any education in that line of work.  The one thing I DID have, as a willingness to work any hours they wanted me to work and I was willing to accept considerably less than the going rate for transcriptionists at that time.  So basically I was in the right place at the right time with the right people, and I've been doing this for the past 13 years.  I'm highly employable, but unfortunately, like most things in this economy, the work volumes are low, and since I get paid on production, that means my pay has decreased considerably.  Plus, "technology" has kind of ruined my ability to hit the sorts of pay figures I used to make, because they've come out with voice recognition, and that means I've been essentially replaced by robots -- I still have to clean up the mess the robots make, because robots can't think, but they pay me way less to play janitor to the robots than they did before robots existed.  However, I have a job, and I have job skills.  If my kids wanted to do this, they would have to go into debt to do it the normal way, by going to college and then getting lucky at finding someone willing to hire newbies.

Things were a heck of a lot easier as far as becoming independent, when I grew up.  Kids today have it a lot harder.

I have to disagree. They have the same opportunity to succeed as we did. They keep getting told it is harder for them because we have been conditioned by fear and we simply do the same to them. The world is a scary place but don't train people to think that way.

 

 

We have the power to revolt right at our fingertips. If we could get enough people together we could make a difference. We wouldn't need funding, just good leadership. As a matter of fact no funding would be what keeps it all honest. Actually you would need funding to set up a bunch of websites but that's pretty cheap. A few dedicated volunteers and a shitload of signatures is all you the power you need. We could take back the country peacefully through boycotts and solidarity.  We have the power, It is our country.

Think Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition but uncorrupted. He had the ability to make a difference and he squandered it making a living for himself and fighting stupid battles.

Got it in ONE, NT, have a cigar... those FOUR small words desribe exactly why the World is currently in a financial mess.

And those practicing it (the large-scale financial and political/power kind of greed) shot.

Of course, the second someone starts to discuss actually doing something instead of just whining everyone dissapears.