Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Great Prof Quote #1

"Heres a nasty old secret, when people accumulate stuff, other people want to take their stuff"

So he was describing the reasons cities built walls, but it made me think about how the T&S crowd penalize success by taking the hard-earned rewards of those who work and save to accumulate wealth by taking and giving to those who don't deserve.

1 comment:

Brett said...

Well, I'd say more like "too lazy" to work and get what they deserve. It reminds me of what the cycle dealer once told me when I asked what kind of helmet I should buy. He said "If you have a $50 head, get a $50 helmet, if you have a $1,000 head, get a $1,000 helmet." If you want to have money and be rich, work for it, otherwise shut up.

I'm not going back to college at the age of 39 and going into $70,000 in debt so that when I graduate and get a really good job, the government can take it and give it to a high school dropout with 7 kids who wants to sit at home and do nothing but complain about how "poor" they are.

If you go into the "slums" of Harrisburg, you'll see the public housing sector with brand new cars out front. Not cheap new cars either. Lexus, Cadillac, BMW, Mercedes, etc. And here I am working and forced to drive around two Dodge vans. One is 8 years old and the other is 13. I'm not complaining, just proving a point!