Posted on 08/06/2014 5:09:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
More money in means more money out.
The only reason I’d love to get rich is because IT REALLY PISSES OFF THE COMMIE LIB DEMOCRATS! They believe that “the little people” shouldn’t have any money. Ask that Kenyan SOB in the White Hut. He’ll tell you.
Adam Smith - “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”
Very timely for me. Thanks for posting.
It really depends on how you define rich.
I do not view the possession of money and/ or material things as rich.
While money is necessary to survive in this world, the only thing that truly matters in the life is love.
That is the only thing you can take with you when you die.
Not that I ever had near 15 million.
Well,I’ll risk it anyway...
No really...I’ll volunteer to be rich and let y’all know how it “feels”...
I notice a nice island in the Bahamas is for sell... gonna buy another Mega Million ticket for Friday
I doubt I would change much, a new computer, a softer bed and a better chair to FReep from.
However, I learned the hard way how unimportant money is compared to family. We were overseas earning a ton of money. My sister passed away during that time. I never had the chance to say goodbye to her.
“Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems.”
Get your BUTT into the office depot desk/chair section and plant it in several chairs until you find the one that makes you say/think: AAAAAHHHHHH.
"The love of money is the root of all evil"
One time my home office chair broke, it didn’t blow up like that poor Chinese guy, but I had to freep from a plastic lawn chair for a while.
Any inheritance horror stories out there?
Just the Kennedys
Family. A lover. Hopefully the lover is your wife.
In "Robinson Crusoe", his father gives him good advice regarding this very subject:
He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind. He told me I might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing—viz. that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequence of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this, as the standard of felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.
He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasinesses, either of body or mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances on the one hand, or by hard labour, want of necessaries, and mean or insufficient diet on the other hand, bring distemper upon themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that the middle station of life was calculated for all kind of virtue and all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health, society, all agreeable diversions, and all desirable pleasures, were the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of it, not embarrassed with the labours of the hands or of the head, not sold to a life of slavery for daily bread, nor harassed with perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of rest, nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things; but, in easy circumstances, sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day’s experience to know it more sensibly.
You've gotta be kidding.
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