Has there ever actually been an unrigged open market in the history of mankind? Understanding it has always been rigged, always will be, and is ever-evolving is a key to navigating it. The hard working small business that is set up to navigate an unrigged open market is quixotic.





That is why wealth should be proudly spent and enjoyed as the fruits of one's labor. It should trickle down like a warm stream of Ronald Reagan's urine on Brewha's head.





They are looters and moochers. They will always exist. They are part of the playing field. They have no solid basis for their harsh judgment on the working man yet they will have that judgement anyway. Overcome them or join them.




Who will help me plant the seeds?
Who will help me cut the wheat?
Who will help me take the wheat to the mill to be ground into flour?
Who will help me bake the bread?
Who will help me eat the bread?


Does "pull together" mean we work the farm as a coop or we just all eat the bread?

Damn, agree or disagree, I'm glad you're here. You challenge with a sense of humor.🇨🇮

I hope I herf with you and a few others before I'm dead.🍺

You just need to come visit Tampa or Orlando. A herf can always be arranged! I do sometimes make it up to DC as well.



"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another—their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride, or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich—will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt—and of his life, as he deserves.

Then you will see the rise of the double standard—the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money—the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law—men who use force to seize the wealth of DISARMED victims—then money becomes its creators' avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they've passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.

Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."

damn... 😟

I think that is a copy and paste from Shrugged.

HD,
I don't commend or condemn you for being well off. In 98.2% of your posts you play the role of the richer, smarter, and all around better than you, persona. It occurred to me a while back that you are all go go gadget globalist, all of the time without any humility. It is like watching a pitcher throw 104 mph fastballs day after day. Impressive, sure. But somewhere in there, it would be nice to see .... The human side of TR.

It's been a tough five years for the average American. The feeling that the big boat is sinking, with people either scrambling up the boat in hopes of staying away from the waves that seem to be gaining on them every day.

While at the same time, the blow horn communications from the nearby luxury liner is talking about subpar caviar, and the need for the peasants to spit shine your anchor..... it an be a bit much. (I can say that because I have never offended anybody or taken a joke too far.)

The decisions you made to put yourself in the financial position you are in today were paid for in other areas I'm sure.

I'd like to have a cigar with you. You've got to have a thousand interesting stories to tell. Somewhere in there is probably a normal dude- once the smoke disappears from you lighting your cigars with $100 bills. I'd like to learn from your mistakes.

The richest men that I have ever known (personally) have been the humblest.

Having said that, I wouldn't take HD's posting persona to heart, brother 8.
I'm sure Mr. Cone of Protection is having fun.

There is certainly something to be said for consistency.

By that same rational JJohnson and Rugrunner posted a certain way 98.2% of the time. Maybe they were just misunderstood.

The forum needs a heartless Globalist.

What??? Are we firing HD?

we can do that..?? 😕

What do you think REALLY happened to Cros?!!

Only if you're in the double platinum member level or above....





... I've said too much already.

................................................................................................................................................. was only following your orders.

😱

[-(

I fear the cost of the Cone of Protection was a 29 hour a week globalist.

The number one rule of member disposal IS.....????.....[ram27bat]

When you all need hunting tips, fishing tips and a recipe for homemade black powder I'm your guy.


Or which direction TW should lay so his fat ass doesn't snore.

^ I'm going to take you up on the fishing tips. Need to start my 13 yr old with good beginner's tackle & pole.
I got rid of all my fishing stuff.


:-k Holy smokes!
It'd be like having an evening with a hybrid of Thurston Howell III, the professor, and Gilligan with a dash of Ginger.

Got to have lunch with HD & DMV one day.. both very nice guys with healthy appetites... 👍

Both ,
good dudes...


wheel,