Posted on 03/13/2013 12:37:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% of American Adults now say it is possible for anyone in the country to work hard and get rich, generally unchanged since late 2012.
Fifty-nine percent (59%), though, say that is no longer possible, up from 55% in late January and the highest level of pessimism in over four years of surveying. …
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If that’s your view of the future, then of course some other path should be taken.
I think one of those might be working for all the upscale medical clinics that will migrate to the Caribbean to service wealthy Americans seeking to avoid Obamacare and chaos.
“I used to run a convenience store, and I swear that if I asked any young employees to do anything more than breath, they`d quite.”
If my kids ever get that way it would be a failure on me. They both are High School students and work and they love making a paycheck and they love doing their jobs...ain’t no free rides in my house. :)
Hard work isn’t enough.
One can be the hardest working house cleaner in the world and never get wealthy.
One has to do something that people are willing to pay riches for. If you start a house cleaner business it is possible to get wealthy - but not just working as a house cleaner.
Read an interesting remark about Michael Jordan and his wealth. People are willing to pay basketball players millions and he was a man of singular ability, drive and work ethic. But nobody was willing to pay him much as a baseball player - his work ethic didn’t pay off. Now he is a Basketball coach and his work ethic isn’t translating into winning seasons for his team.
Work ethic is just one ingredient. A profession where high rewards are available is another. Natural talent is another.
No doubt they’re giving back to the fake for letting them be rich.
You will be politically attacked and taxed to well past death.
Who is John Galt?
I’m reminded more and more of Eastern Europe
Maybe 59% don’t know how to do anything. What’s the current aggregate percentage on SS, unemployment, welfare and ‘disability’ again?
SnakeDoc
“I got mine” laws.
once rich, close the door behind you. (and then lock it, bolt it, and nail it shut)
“59% Say It’s No Longer Possible To Work Hard and Get Rich in U.S.”
Music to the Community Organizer’s ears.
It used to be an old joke among race-car drivers. How do you make a million bucks racing? Start with two million bucks. The same thing now applies to the country as a whole.
You can’t just work hard, though hard work alone can keep you fed and clothed. To get wealthy requires hard work, intelligence, and willingness to take risk.
Most are sooooo screwed. Hard work is foreign to their being.
The other 41% don’t realize it yet.
Remember her heinous Hillary saying she couldn't worry about every undercapitalized business in the US - as she was about to try and inflict some disgusting rules on her subjects?
I can't believe how this country has changed and so quickly. We are all now wards of the state....taxpaying entities diced up into special interest groups and catered to or trashed depending on how we are perceived to vote.
And meanwhile those living in or near D.C. get richer and richer not to mention more arrogant.
Which is exactly how the Left wants it.
If you are rich you must have done it by ripping off widows and orphans or “winning life’s lottery”, since we all know it’s impossible to get there with hard work.
From there it’s a short step down to electing mobs of looters to “set things right”.
The 59% includes 100% of Romney’s infamous 47%. Well, possibly excluding the majority of retired working folks who should’ve never been included in the 47% to begin with.
Get rich?? This is hilarious...
In today's America, one can barely survive working your butt off with two, his and her incomes, as prices just continue to inch up, while wages have been stagnant for 12 years, benefits reduced or just outright eliminated..
In fact, most in the private sector are screwed as they're wages and benefits will never keep up with the cost of actual living, declining dollar, costs of mortgages, rents, food, medical expenses, etc, etc.
In fact, multi-generational living is growing by leaps and bounds in the U.S. now...
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