Let me tell you a story.
There was this guy who we’ll just call Felix. He was dirt poor. At the age of 15, in Boston, he was responsible for helping support his mom and six siblings. He took a job at a hospital washing pots and pans.
The family finally moved to Lexington, NC. Felix got a job working a 12-hour shift in a furniture factory sanding furniture. A year later he moved to Charlotte, NC and took on two jobs. One was working as a parking lot attendant at a rental car place, and the other was washing cars at the airport.
Felix finally talked a local car dealer to give him a job selling cars for free with the understanding that if was able to out sell the other salesman within a month he would be paid and given a full time sales job. Felix succeeded and a newspaper story about the incident prompted another businessman to offer him a different sales position.
At the age of 25 he accepted a sales position with a company called TSC. He was so successful that in within three years he was able to buy the company. At the company’s peak it had over $12 billion dollars in sales.
In 1988 he bought a Hatteras fishing yacht dealership and within two years had turned it into the largest Hatteras dealership in the world.
To this day he owns and operates a Mercedes dealership along with several other auto dealerships.
Now it’s time for the rest of the story.
Felix’s family was originally wealthy. They had gotten that way through hard work and wisdom. The problem was that they lived in Cuba and when that country went communist all of their assets were taken by Castro.
Their move from Boston to Lexington, NC was made possible by a an American-based Catholic charity.
In 2000, he CHOSE to sell his company, TSC, to his employees at a price that was below market value to reward them for helping him build the business. In other words, his employees apparently worked instead of posting on the computer all day bitching.
He has served on many boards.
He is large donator to charities including the North Carolina Health Care System Foundation, the Allegro Foundation to benefit children with special needs, and the Levine Children’s Hospital.
Felix is a member of what lazy liberals would call the 1%, but he didn’t begin his life in this country as part of the 1%. Through hard work and dedication he climbed his way into the 1% bracket, and once there, he has freely helped those truly in need.
Felix Sabates began life in Cuban, but now he’s an American who is a member of the Republican Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Sabates
I’m not in the 1%. I’m far, far from the 1%, but on behalf of great Americans like Felix Sabates I say **** you to the parasitic DUmmies who would rather steal from others than break a sweat.
