Posted on 05/01/2021 7:03:47 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
Spot on!
That doesn’t work in a socialist country.
Yes. Less than 3% of Americans who play by the rules live in poverty.
And the rules are very simple:
1. Get an education.
2. Get married.
3. Stay married.
I got mine through a career of consistent work, skills development, and opportunities taken.
No one working 40 hours/week should live in poverty.
The generation raised on the mantra that participation is just as good as results needs to learn that it is results that will ultimately reduce their income inequality, not just the participation.
-PJ
Funny you should mention that because my thought is that the difference is exactly that:
Give a poor person $1000, and they will buy an iPhone.
Give a rich person $1000, and they will buy 7 shares of AAPL.
Two years later, the phone is worthless but the stock becomes “Generational Wealth”.
The difference between rich and poor is not skin color. It is the choices they make.
Dave Ramsey: Live like no one else today and you will live like no one else later.
Been married 30+ years. In our 60’s now. Paid off house and kids are grown and on their own. Whoo Hooo.
Personally, I have never viewed it that way.
When I get hired, I have one job, and one job only: To provide value to my employer.
That’s it. I don’t expect them to treat me as if it is a privilege for them to have hired me. It isn’t. They are running a business to make money and provide a product or service to paying customers.
I expect them to tell me what they want me to do, and if it is not wrong or immoral, I am going to do that, and that alone. For a period of time, my value to my employer means showing up on time, ready to work, and doing exactly what they ask of me to the best of my ability.
Once I am acclimated, my goal is to provide MORE value for my employer. I learn everything I can. I get better at what I do. I teach others. I pick up slack. I do things that aren’t my primary job, not only to learn more about them, but to provide more value to my employer.
I don’t do this for monetary reasons, I have never been driven by money. What motivates me is doing a job, doing it right, doing it faster, and doing it better than anyone else while maintaining a good working environment by contributing towards it with the right attitude and glue.
When my boss tells me to jump, I have one question, and that is “How high?” I am completely straightforward with my employer, I offer status updates, opinions, and suggestions that don’t sugar coat, and do not differ whether it is a co-worker, my boss, or the CEO asking me.
I have had this attitude ever since I went in the Navy, and it has served me well. I have advanced at every opportunity, I have turned down jobs that would have meant a pay raise but would not be something I would excel at and provide value doing.
When my job went away due to changes in the way business was being done, instead of giving me a scut job or laying me off, they went out of their way to create a job specifically for me to keep me around.
They did this because my goal is to provide value to my co-workers, my boss, my CEO, and my company. Rarely in my entire career have I put my personal wants and needs above the job that my company hired me and pays me for.
Do I think they are lucky to have me working for them? Yes, I do. Do I think I am lucky to have a well paying and stable job? Yes I do.
I view it as a win-win. I am nearing retirement, and for the last 25-30 years, I have routinely worked 60 hour weeks to include nights, weekends, and holidays. I do it because I want my employer to prosper. Because if my employer prospers...I can get a paycheck. I can pay my bills and taxes, and can live comfortably within my means.
And I can take satisfaction and pride in my work and in my employer.
Anyone looking for any relationship with their company not predicated on the fundamental premise of them providing value to their employer (what can they do for ME!) is going to be unhappy and expendable. I want to make it as difficult as possible for my employer to fire me. It is their company, and I feel that I can be fired at will. I want to make that option as painful as possible for them by providing so much value that it is not in their best interests to do so.
This has worked for me, and I am a lucky man as a result. But I have made my own luck.
Trying to reason with a communist or Nazi who wants to steal everything you have and kill you is not a productive use of your time. Leftists understand and react to three things:
1. Threats of violence.
2. Violence.
3. Death.
Ronald Reagan understood that and brought down the Soviet Union.
Yes. It isn’t rocket science.
Making industry and commerce profitable puts people to work.
Industry and Commerce are made more profitable by decreasing regulatory legislation and red tape, and making investment attractive.
Keeping energy costs down is a rising tide that will lift all boats. (I can’t stand hearing people complain about the rising cost of EVERYTHING, in light of the fact that energy costs are deliberately being elevated for ideological reasons)
Protecting our industry by preventing intellectual property theft and unfair, immoral, and illegal trading practices (as commerce is practiced by China) is critical.
Workers pay taxes and buy goods and services keeping others in jobs.
Reducing the labor supply by being more selective about who is let in legally and completely eliminating illegal immigration is key.
These are all things Trump was doing diligently and it was paying off.
Good post, DannyTN. This is obvious, but needs saying. Thank you for doing so.
How do we fight the catch phrases like ‘income inequality’?
Tell them Oprah and Michael Jordan should share their money with working-class whites.
How do we fight the catch phrases like ‘income inequality’?
Tell them to stop importing illiterate, unskilled Third Worlders; and stop paying H1-Bs less than Americans.
Last time they rose up with their hate and bblame whitey racist and discrimination stuff, institutionally, a lawyer, Mr. Ward Connerlly, sued everyone and won.
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