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New Heroes vs. Old (Rockfeller & Ford made our lives better. Is it bad that they became rich?)
National Review ^ | 01/25/2011 | Thomas Sowell

Posted on 01/25/2011 6:50:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Quix

Amen on that.


21 posted on 01/25/2011 7:40:16 AM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (Infidel Inside)
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To: jnsun

RE: The Rockfellers

OLD CHINESE PROVERB : fu bu guo san dai

IN ENGLISH : Wealth does not pass three generations.

Meaning: It’s rare that the wealth of a family can last for three generations (the 2nd may see the value of hard work, but the 3rd forgets it).

Explanation: In business, the first generation works extremely hard, so that the second generation reaps the benefits. By the time the third generation arrives, the wealth is squandered.


22 posted on 01/25/2011 7:47:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: NeoCaveman

INDEED.

UNDERSTAND. ME EITHER.


23 posted on 01/25/2011 7:49:16 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

THX FOR YOUR KIND REPLY.


24 posted on 01/25/2011 7:50:05 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ
American workers aren't, in large, great workers anymore.

I agree, I was speaking more of those of the industrial age and up to the 1960s when there were still jobs that paid enough to support a family. The American work ethic is not what it used to be. If there is ever a social collapse in the USA about 80% of those 40 years and younger will likely just sit down and die.

25 posted on 01/25/2011 10:39:32 AM PST by drypowder
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought old American capitalists like Rockefeller, Ford, and Morgan were Secretly Behind Communism?


26 posted on 01/25/2011 10:41:39 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Vayiqach sefer haberit vayiqra' be'ozney ha`am vayo'meru kol 'asher-dibber HaShem na`aseh venishma`!)
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To: drypowder

Too true;

And I’ll be standing right there next to them as they are sitting on the ground, ready to work their property/goods to make it/them productive and thus have legitimate claim to ownership of said property and goods.

It will really be pretty easy.


27 posted on 01/25/2011 1:40:00 PM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (Infidel Inside)
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