"Who cares!"
yes. and thats not fair, so I will fix it.
sincerely,
B. Obama
Money won’t solve all of your problems.
It WILL solve your money problems.
If I were a rich man ... I’d hire some poor schnook to be depressed for me.
You can’t buy love.
You CAN rent it.
My father, a wise and grave man, gave me serious and excellent counsel against what he foresaw was my design. He called me one morning into his chamber, where he was confined by the gout, and expostulated very warmly with me upon this subject. He asked me what reasons, more than a mere wandering inclination, I had for leaving father's house and my native country, where I might be well introduced, and had a prospect of raising my fortune by application and industry, with a life of ease and pleasure. 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.
If Robinson Crusoe had listened to his daddy, though, there wouldn't have been much of a book!
Ask Magic Johnson...
I am not happier. I am bitter. I only cling to my guns and religion. I hope the government can same me soon. all hail Obama! I will be happy soon.
SOAK THE RICH!!!
I’d just like a chance to prove that being rich does not make you happy.
My happiness seems to be more tied to how little debt I have, regardless of income level.
Money can’t buy happiness ... but it makes a really good down payment
There you go, proof that the Democrats want to make people miserable. They will take the money from the rich, but will not make anyone at the bottom of the scale any richer. Thus, the Democrats winning will mean a net decrease in happiness in this country.
"Who cares!"
After growing up in an upper middle class family then for the last 9 years having a family of my own living in a less than 900 square foot home barely making ends meet, I’d say having money would not be too bad. My wife and I agree that if we did have wealth we would not be stupid and buy new cars and have an elaborate house. We would continue driving our used cars and still shop at the discount stores. We would still refrain from having credit cards. . . basically follow the Dave Ramsey method.
happy rich people ping...
After growing up in an upper middle class family then for the last 9 years having a family of my own living in a less than 900 square foot home barely making ends meet, I’d say having money would not be too bad. My wife and I agree that if we did have wealth we would not be stupid and buy new cars and have an elaborate house. We would continue driving our used cars and still shop at the discount stores. We would still refrain from having credit cards. . . basically follow the Dave Ramsey method.
So says this man:
Gimme a $bajillion.....and I’ll find out for ya.
Absolutely not. The only unhappy poor people I know are ones who cannot pay their bills, but people of limited means are usually happier than rich people. I know people on both extremes of the scale and by far the poorer people are far happier. Rich people tend to pretend all is well but that is because they are snobby and no rich person ever wants to hear of other people’s problems, probably because they don’t want to face the fact that they, too, have problems.