The Millionaires Little Backwoods Getaway...

[Midnight Marauder]

Gotta love the job creation the rich guy did.

 

[Phoenix]

And yet my sister and her husband, who has lived a life of luxury, love to come to my house. What's up with that? I don't do dishes for a week, my kids are afraid to sleep in their own beds, but all my relatives love to come here. Can anyone explain that to me?

Perhaps theirs is a grand house but that doesn't necessarily make it a home. There's a huge difference.

Growing up, we lived in an old farmhouse - nothing grand, nothing fancy, no TV, video games or anything like. But our friends always wanted to come to our house, even though theirs might have been nicer by society standards.

 

[007]

And yet my sister and her husband, who has lived a life of luxury, love to come to my house. What's up with that? I don't do dishes for a week, my kids are afraid to sleep in their own beds, but all my relatives love to come here. Can anyone explain that to me?

Perhaps theirs is a grand house but that doesn't necessarily make it a home. There's a huge difference.

Growing up, we lived in an old farmhouse - nothing grand, nothing fancy, no TV, video games or anything like. But our friends always wanted to come to our house, even though theirs might have been nicer by society standards.

And in the end... what does it matter what you've accumulated in your life.

As the saying goes... "I never saw a hearse with a luggage rack."

 

[uscitizen]

And yet my sister and her husband, who has lived a life of luxury, love to come to my house. What's up with that? I don't do dishes for a week, my kids are afraid to sleep in their own beds, but all my relatives love to come here. Can anyone explain that to me?

Perhaps theirs is a grand house but that doesn't necessarily make it a home. There's a huge difference.

Growing up, we lived in an old farmhouse - nothing grand, nothing fancy, no TV, video games or anything like. But our friends always wanted to come to our house, even though theirs might have been nicer by society standards.

And in the end... what does it matter what you've accumulated in your life.

As the saying goes... "I never saw a hearse with a luggage rack."

Ahh but I have college trusts set up for the grandchildren and my farm in an in perputuity (sp?) trust for them to live on but not sell.

 

[asaratis]

And yet my sister and her husband, who has lived a life of luxury, love to come to my house. What's up with that? I don't do dishes for a week, my kids are afraid to sleep in their own beds, but all my relatives love to come here. Can anyone explain that to me?

Perhaps theirs is a grand house but that doesn't necessarily make it a home. There's a huge difference.

Growing up, we lived in an old farmhouse - nothing grand, nothing fancy, no TV, video games or anything like. But our friends always wanted to come to our house, even though theirs might have been nicer by society standards.

I remember something similar. we didn't have the nicest house in town by any means. We just had the best backyard.

 

[Douger]

Give that the middle class is tapped, it falls to the affluent to spend spend spend!

The more they spend the more middle class people work.

Jesus Christ bless you, drooling idiot.

My sister left our very dysfunctional and desperately poor family at 16 and started college. She turned 17 in November of the first quarter (or maybe the beginning of the second one).

She put herself through college and then law school, on scholarships, and a few loans which she paid back quickly.

She married a Viet Nam vet, who attended West Point but DROPPED OUT SO HE COULD SERVE MORE QUICKLY as a company clerk for an engineer unit ( you know, the guys who build bridges on the OTHER side of enemy lines) , and together they went bankrupt trying to run his family's farm. They then both became district attorneys, then he went to work for what ultimately became Smith Barney, and she worked as a deputy DA for 8 years for the county, for 8 years as a private attorney, and untold years as a TRIBAL attorney, primarily a prosecutor.

In the meantime, she served on a variety of boards, including EQC, that Environmental Quality Commission, a position to which she was nominated and appointed to by the governor. Eventually she was chariwoman of that board, served her term, and is now back to working solely for the tribe.

Let's talk some more about people who don't deserve what they have worked their hearts and their lives out for. My sister and brother in law have contributed tens of thousands to charities and their church, and rarely miss a day of work.

He continues to work his ass off for Smith Barney, despite heart and blood pressure issues, and she is the Attorney Director for the Child Support Unit for the tribes, despite her own health issues, because they are dedicated to putting their own two children through school on their own. My brother in law's parents, one a math teacher, the other a stock broker, were able to fund his schooling, my own family contributed nothing to my sisiter's education, and they feel obligated to repay the loans their children are taking out. My niece starts her residency in 2010, and owes $600,000 in loans which my sister and her husband will pay for her.

So fuck you when you blab about the upper crust and the way they take advantage. My sister and her husband have worked their lives away to provide for their families so that they wouldn't be a burden on society. They have withheld nothing for themselves. They are downsizing and selling their lovely home to better provide, so they are beholden to no one.

Just because you are dependent upon others, or have never had to provide anything for yourself, don't you dare disparage those who work their asses and their lives away to provide a decent life for their children. You're a piece of shit if you t hink we should all live in the gutter, just because you don't have what it takes to accomplish anything remotely akin to success on your own.

Yeah,

I did 70 to100 hours a week, farming ,for 33 years.
I was even open on all holidays, including Santa Farce day.The family opened presents while I sold fish, flowers and produce to morons that waited until the last second.
No vacation. No health care and no retirement. Not even Socialist Security.
HOWEVER
Never had a credit card and had one mortgage for 12 grand, 25 or so years back. Paid it off in a flash.
Never financed anything really. Maybe 2 months on an ATC or television..I don't do TV any more either.

I think I'll ride over to the hot springs, watch the lava flow down the volcano, and get me a nice seafood platter.
Pura Vida.


OMG OMG Britney is pregnant again ! I need a new iPod !
Idiocracy...........

 

[007]

Perhaps theirs is a grand house but that doesn't necessarily make it a home. There's a huge difference.

Growing up, we lived in an old farmhouse - nothing grand, nothing fancy, no TV, video games or anything like. But our friends always wanted to come to our house, even though theirs might have been nicer by society standards.

And in the end... what does it matter what you've accumulated in your life.

As the saying goes... "I never saw a hearse with a luggage rack."

Ahh but I have college trusts set up for the grandchildren and my farm in an in perputuity (sp?) trust for them to live on but not sell.

That's great... and I have a considerable amount of valuable belongings myself that my son will inherit. But the point I made was, I won't be taking anything I owned in my life with me when I die. No one does.

 

[AllieBaba]

And yet my sister and her husband, who has lived a life of luxury, love to come to my house. What's up with that? I don't do dishes for a week, my kids are afraid to sleep in their own beds, but all my relatives love to come here. Can anyone explain that to me?

Perhaps theirs is a grand house but that doesn't necessarily make it a home. There's a huge difference.

Growing up, we lived in an old farmhouse - nothing grand, nothing fancy, no TV, video games or anything like. But our friends always wanted to come to our house, even though theirs might have been nicer by society standards.

And in the end... what does it matter what you've accumulated in your life.

As the saying goes... "I never saw a hearse with a luggage rack."

And that is the whey they feel. They have contributed hundreds of thousands to the family, ours and his, throughout their lives. His brother, who had a learning disability as a child but made it through college, worked for my brother in law for years (and I think still does) managing their rentals and other real estate. For years that was his only income, until various members of the family sold or gave him properties of his own, and now he's probably the #1 renter in the area. He has dozens of rental properties of his own, and he still manages the properties of the family. He maintains the homes in good condition, never fails to quickly repair anything that goes wrong, charges reasonable rents and will rent to people who might otherwise have a very hard time finding a place.

My sister and her husband hire a halftime maid as well as a groundkeeper. They keep the pool people hopping. They have money stashed here and there, enough to leave to their kids, who they have sweat BLOOD for over the years to make sure will be self-sufficient when they finally go to their reward.

Meanwhile, my co-worker, a liberal case manager who retires Nov. 30, loves to go on and on about how wealthy people don't care about those who work for them. My co-worker has never, to my knowledge, worked a weekend or a holiday, drives a state car and enjoys medical benefits and a retirement package provided by the state. She refuses DV funds to women who come in, women who have been beaten, who have had their abusers try to run them off the road, whose abusers are parked at the end of their parents' driveway waiting for them, despite the fact that the funds are there to provide those women with around $2000 if she deems it necessary to their safety. In her eyes, getting your own place doesn't make you more safe, and if the guy is staking out your parents' house, well at least your parents can help defend you. Those women are the ones who return to their abusers, or die. I've never seen an ounce of concern from this woman for these women, or any curiousity from her about what their outcomes are, other than annoyance with the ones return to their abusers because they have no where else to go.

She's never given to a church or any charity other than to give her castoffs to thrift stores, and occasionally contribute a piddling amount out of her paycheck (as we all do) towards a couple of charities the state sponsors...primarily food pantries. She's never had to be the sole support of her family, the most traumatic event in her adult life was when she was aggravated with her husband and threw a glass jar of homemade tomato sauce across the garage to break against the wall.

She's worked 30 years in the system, starting as a CLERK for child welfare, and has no compassion and is incapable of empathy for the people she administers programs for. Her sole interest in her job is her own status and what her co-workers think of her.

I'm writing an article on her for the paper this week. Beleive me, today, I don't feel much like making it a glowing report. I called her house at 5:45 this morning, as soon as I realized that I wasn't coming to work because my boy was running a temp of over 101 degrees. She is an early riser, I know because we have travelled many miles together. In the jobs I've had previously, it was required that as soon as you know you aren't going to be working, you let your co-workers know as a COURTESY so they can do whatever they need to do to cover. She was planning on coming to my office, I knew she had an early morning meeting first, and I wanted to make sure I reached her before she left the house in the morning, and so I could go back to bed with my son, who was up off and on all night. She was LIVID. I actually took my son and dropped him off at school so I could go to the office and reschedule my three appointments, and the phone was ringing the minute I walked in the office. It was her and she went off on me for about 10 minutes with "advice for the future" about calling in, never to call in before 8 blah blah blah. I said, "You know, don't worry, it won't ever happen to you again. You'll be gone."

That pretty effectively ended the conversation.

But I'm still pissed.

 

[AllieBaba]

Give that the middle class is tapped, it falls to the affluent to spend spend spend!

The more they spend the more middle class people work.

Jesus Christ bless you, drooling idiot.

My sister left our very dysfunctional and desperately poor family at 16 and started college. She turned 17 in November of the first quarter (or maybe the beginning of the second one).

She put herself through college and then law school, on scholarships, and a few loans which she paid back quickly.

She married a Viet Nam vet, who attended West Point but DROPPED OUT SO HE COULD SERVE MORE QUICKLY as a company clerk for an engineer unit ( you know, the guys who build bridges on the OTHER side of enemy lines) , and together they went bankrupt trying to run his family's farm. They then both became district attorneys, then he went to work for what ultimately became Smith Barney, and she worked as a deputy DA for 8 years for the county, for 8 years as a private attorney, and untold years as a TRIBAL attorney, primarily a prosecutor.

In the meantime, she served on a variety of boards, including EQC, that Environmental Quality Commission, a position to which she was nominated and appointed to by the governor. Eventually she was chariwoman of that board, served her term, and is now back to working solely for the tribe.

Let's talk some more about people who don't deserve what they have worked their hearts and their lives out for. My sister and brother in law have contributed tens of thousands to charities and their church, and rarely miss a day of work.

He continues to work his ass off for Smith Barney, despite heart and blood pressure issues, and she is the Attorney Director for the Child Support Unit for the tribes, despite her own health issues, because they are dedicated to putting their own two children through school on their own. My brother in law's parents, one a math teacher, the other a stock broker, were able to fund his schooling, my own family contributed nothing to my sisiter's education, and they feel obligated to repay the loans their children are taking out. My niece starts her residency in 2010, and owes $600,000 in loans which my sister and her husband will pay for her.

So fuck you when you blab about the upper crust and the way they take advantage. My sister and her husband have worked their lives away to provide for their families so that they wouldn't be a burden on society. They have withheld nothing for themselves. They are downsizing and selling their lovely home to better provide, so they are beholden to no one.

Just because you are dependent upon others, or have never had to provide anything for yourself, don't you dare disparage those who work their asses and their lives away to provide a decent life for their children. You're a piece of shit if you t hink we should all live in the gutter, just because you don't have what it takes to accomplish anything remotely akin to success on your own.

Yeah,

I did 70 to100 hours a week, farming ,for 33 years.
I was even open on all holidays, including Santa Farce day.The family opened presents while I sold fish, flowers and produce to morons that waited until the last second.
No vacation. No health care and no retirement. Not even Socialist Security.
HOWEVER
Never had a credit card and had one mortgage for 12 grand, 25 or so years back. Paid it off in a flash.
Never financed anything really. Maybe 2 months on an ATC or television..I don't do TV any more either.

I think I'll ride over to the hot springs, watch the lava flow down the volcano, and get me a nice seafood platter.
Pura Vida.


OMG OMG Britney is pregnant again ! I need a new iPod !
Idiocracy...........

My sister and bro-in-law went bankrupt when the bottom fell out of the wheat market, and they got weevils in their two brand new Butler elevators. They lost everything, had to sell off the homestead and move into town. It took them about 10-15 years to climb out of that hole, but they did it in spades.