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My oldest son once said the more one achieves and accumulates the more effort is spent finding places to store and secure it while upping one's percentage of time worrying about what life would be like without these valuables.

He also believed in these Adrian Rogers statements:

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

• What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

• The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

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I see nothing wrong with living a life with only theh possessions that one needs. Even though I own a good sized home with a swimming pool in the back yard and two cars I would probably own much less if I didn't have a wife and three teenaged children.

It is disconcerting to see so many young people languishing at home into their late twenties and thirties, content to drift along with a minimum of effort.

Young men who live like this seem to have been somehow neutered. They have no lust for life or adventure. They seek no challenges. They shy away from even healthy competition. They lack curiosity.

They have no balls.

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Absolutely- where have “all the real men gone”? Hard work and sweat equity doesn’t seem to exist anymore- for those that were raised in this fashion. Yes, this is definitely not for the younger generations, and I agree, government always takes their cut first! The term I’ve used, “my future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades”, doesn’t seem to apply much now!

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Yep. At its core government produces nothing, it only takes from the productive and re-allocates those resources based on political reasoning.

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