Former NFL Star Arrested in California Robbery Spree

RARE News ^ | December 19, 2023 | Sam Amico

[dfwgator]

I remember Dexter Manley’s testimony about how all the schools looked the other way, even though he was illiterate.

[bgill]

How anyone, no matter how dumb, can go through the millions he had.

[texas booster]

None of this is news to anyone that has lived a while.

NBA players and lottery winners - still well over half are broke within a few years.

Most people born in the 50’s or 60’s will make over a million dollars in their 40 - 50 years working career. Doesn’t matter much what you do.

Most people born in the 90’s or 00’s will make $3 - 4 million over the course of their lives.

And yet about half will end up with little more than social security to enjoy in their twilight years.

And let’s not even get started about inflation and the government’s role in wage theft ...

[aquila48]

You hold the person who makes the choice responsible.

Consequences are by far the best teacher and the best builder of good character.

I think they call that “tough love” . We have way too little of that and way to much of what I call “pathological compassion”.

That’s the type of compassion that ends up making things worse for both the giver and the receiver... as well as society as a whole.

We are living it.

[Lockbox]

I do not disagree with your goal, we are on board with personal responsibility. But the powers to be are not, they want people who need them because they are failures. So we have an uphill fight to over come decades of the government destroying personal responsibility.

Let me know where to start with the young generation.

[Lockbox]

And let’s not even get started about inflation and the government’s role in wage theft ...

>Exactly

[aquila48]

“Let me know where to start with the young generation.”

Well the obvious place to start is with your own kids and grandkids and any other young person you have influence over.

To affect larger groups of people you’d have to seek some level of public position.

But we’re probably at a point where the only solution may be the return of the “Gods of the Copybook Headings”.

If you’re not familiar with it, here it is...

https://www.poetry.com/poem/33442/the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings

What do you think?

[pas]

I am white so I can’t comment on this.

[Fresh Wind]

If you take all of the money away from the rich people and give it to the poor people, in a few years the rich people will be rich again, and the poor people will be poor again.

[Red Badger]

WEALTHY PEOPLE ARE WEALTHY AND POOR PEOPLE ARE POOR BOTH FOR THE SAME REASON.

BOTH GROUPS CONTINUOUSLY DO THAT WHICH MAINTAINS THEIR POSITION...........

[dfwgator]

That’s why corporations love the idea of Reparations for Slavery, they will ultimately get all that money.

[Svartalfiar]

We see these big $$$ contracts in sports, all sports, from an outsider’s point of view.
...
They don’t get that $$$ in total.

Not quite. It's the same for most everyone else: you get paid $60M at your job. You still give Uncle Sugar his cut, pay your local taxes, and give some to the people that perform services for you, like cutting your yard. The only difference is most people don't have to deal with travel jurisdictions trying to take a chunk. Oh, and he's working with $17MM instead of your $60M.

He's still taking home quite a lot more than you are, and is still somehow broke enough to be robbing gas stations.

[dfwgator]

[Red Badger]

Athletes have extra taxes to pay we don’t have.

They have to pay taxes in every jurisdiction they play in. Some even have special ‘fees’ just for the privilege of playing a sport in their town................

[Svartalfiar]

They have to pay taxes in every jurisdiction they play in. Some even have special ‘fees’ just for the privilege of playing a sport in their town................

Oh yea I guess I'm in Texas so we don't have a lot of those. And I have experience 1099 so I'm kinda used to a couple different forms on my taxes.

[Red Badger]

Look at post #26 for a sample.....................