The best year I ever had "Toots" and I made $95,000. Of course in construction you're lucky to work 9 months out of the year up here. Nowadays we average around 60 grand. I can buy anything I want or need. If I can't buy it with the cash in my pocket, my Banker will gladly hand me the cash and let me pay it back to him because of my credit history and my character. Money, does not make a man rich!
We want for nothing. The kids are gone now so we spoil our 5 grandchildren, our 2 bassetts, and Dixie my partner in crime yellow lab. I consider myself rich. It doesn't take money to make you rich.
I don't own a house, but have the pleasure and privilege of caretaking 160 acres with pasture, forest, several ponds, horses, mules, and a couple steers we're priming for the freezer. Like I said, you don't need a million dollars to be rich! Every thing I have came from hard work. We did have to resort a few times to Food Stamps after my unemployment ran out during Jimmah's reign. Only because there was so much snow I couldn't get out to hunt venison. Even the deer left for greener pastures that year.
I owned my first house and lost it thanx to the 2nd worst president who ever lived, Jimmah, KKK, Kotta's recession. There were a lot of foreclosures back then, too, just as now. I think Bam Bam is vying for the record for foreclosures, though. That and making sure he's the Number 1 worst traitorous president of all time! I, never thought we could do worse than Jimmah, KKK, Kotta, but lo and behold, "the Messiah" has come!
The 2nd house I lost was due to ****ing Towel Heads deciding we didn't need the World Trade Center Towers. The bottom dropped right out of my advertising business. I couldn't keep up the payments and had to sell for less than what it was worth just so I wouldn't destroy my family. Nothing is as bad as worrying about debt 24/7. It drags evryone down with you. Better to cut your losses and start over.
It's been a tough road, this thing we call life. I don't recall anyone ever telling me it would be anything else! Maybe that's the difference between us and them. We expect life's bumps and bruises, they expect to skate through without a scratch, thanx to their DemonRat buddies on the hill! And when they don't get it, they whine like 4 year olds that mommy won't give them a sucker!
So stow your "I hate the Rich" crap! I'm living proof you can live without hand-outs from touchie feelie DemonRats, who are never interested in my well being. They're interested in 2 things, getting re-elected, and power over the people. That's it! Nothing else! How else to explain the total failure of the Black family in America and the total collapse of the "War on Poverty"?
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