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Posted on 07/07/2008 5:50:59 PM PDT by prolifefirst
you have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not the person feeding their cat the $95 caviar at the ritz carlton also contributes millions to worthwhile charities which feed, house, cloth lots of people. do you? having money doesn’t mean your soul is not intact. and you sound suspiciously like a person who suffers class envy.
Wealth will not rot the soul by it's self but envy will every time.
Poverty has caused a lot more misery and evil than money ever has. Money in and of itself is not evil but the obsession with material things can lead to a lot of personal problems, there's no doubt about that. "Money is the root of all evil" is misattributed to Jesus Christ (Actually stated as "the love of money" by Paul the Apostle in his letter to Timothy the Apostle}
The cover girl for this LP was selling her autograph for $10 at a record show in Seattle 3 years ago. Since it has been over 40 years she had aged somewhat.
Envy will kill your soul even faster.
I agreed with this point of view until I woke up from a bender and found that my three stray cats had eaten my freshly transplanted leg.
That was the first image to pop in my head, too.
Wealth will not rot the soul by it's self but envy will every time.
I think it is the LOVE OF MONEY, which is quite different... and envy will also rot the soul, for sure! God has put a lot of riches into a lot of faithful hands! For reference, see Bible!
When a rich person spends $95 on cat food, the money does not evaporate. It gets divided up among the hotel staff, the folks who made the can, the folks who hauled it to the hotel, the ones who caught the fish, the processor, and about 100 others. It is taxed every time it changes hands so that liberals like you will get every opportunity to give some of it to a dope smoking, non-working lowlife in the form of a welfare payment. (In addition to the non-dope smoking, non-lowlife welfare recipient of course). Anybody who says a rich man is “wasting” money when he buys a luxury item is a pathetic economic illiterate. It is far better to buy something and thus give the money to working people rather than giving it to non-workers.
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While my son was with Cal Tech Pasadena and the Jet Propulsion Lab — we were offered very special rates to stay at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena if rooms were available..
They always were available -— and the staff and all facilities within the hotel were in my view, OUTSTANDING..
Many hotels in Japan and Europe can compete -— but not at the price we were paying...
Drinks at the pool, or on the dining balcony above the pool area was REALLY an eye opener... The ladies in their very brief “tanning gear” were over revealing some of the finest examples of human flesh in the world......and also the most expensive!
We conservatives don’t think we have the right to tell other people how to spend their hard-earned money.
You've boasted several times of your anti-American sentiments and actions. Your treason may pay well; that doesn't make it conservative.
What is killing the conservative cause is the evangelicals brought in by Reagan. Flame on FR! This is a prime example of what I mean.
Evangelicals care more for shoving their religion down the throats of the heathens than adhering to limited government or the Constitution.
If I wish to spend $1000 on dinner, who should care? My money. My dinner. My desire. I worked for it, I spent it the way I care to, and the wait staff was absolutely ecstatic that I tipped well.
Meanwhile I give a boatload to charity, possibily more than you do. I get, I give, I spend. Yet, you want me to be a pauper to be in Jesus’s eyes!?!? My soul is clean and I don’t need an evangelist to tell me so. If someone wants to feed their cat, gold-foiled caviar, so be it. Their money: dispose of it the way they wish.
Is Bill Gates wrong to have a mansion but also be the largest charitable donor in history?
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
I have stayed at many Ritz-Carltons for various reasons. The only place better, IMO, is The Broadmoor which is beyond compare but unique (it is not a chain).
That said, you get what you pay for. The Ritz is incredible but it is very stiff. Some of the newer Ritz-Carltons are looser but still refined. I like the new approach but I have never had a bad experience at a Ritz...ever. They really do it well.
I stayed at a the Ritz Carlton in Maui and will never recover from it. The service was out of this world, they make you feel like royalty. “My pleasure!” You could sleep with the doors open to your balcony and listen to the gently “click, click, clicking” of exotic palm leaves waving in the breeze. The experience was so luxurious, it will ruin every other vacation I have for the rest of my life.
Didn’t run into anybody rude there. Most of the other patrons I talked with seemed very down to earth and friendly.
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