I have copied this article and take no credit for it. I hope that you read it and then share it with those that you love. Learn to do things differently. Be a Maker and not a taker. Become your own boss, create wealth for yourself, gain time and financial freedom, start your own business, and help get America Back. We were at one time a community of the Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick maker. We were a self sufficient Country….now we rely on other nations for our goods.
We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined.
If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, consider this depressing statistic: Today in America there are nearly twice as many people working for the government (22.5 million) than in all of manufacturing (11.5 million). This is an almost exact reversal of the situation in 1960, when there were 15 million workers in manufacturing and 8.7 million collecting a paycheck from the government. Continue Reading
The law of Attraction
Life isn’t fair – When I got out of High school – I didn’t have a burning desire to go to college. I didn’t have any money to go to college. And my parents didn’t really care what I did as long as I got out of the house and on my own. Their focus wasn’t on me going to college.
At that time the Vietnam “police action” was going on and the draft was the way that America was supplying soldiers. I wasn’t opposed to serving my country; I just didn’t want to die for my country. A Patrick Henry I wasn’t. My stand was not “Give me liberty or Give me death”. Continue Reading
Feast or Famine….What will you Have? 
I know that we have been tricked – fooled by our school system and our culture. We have been taught that to be successful we must get a “good” education, get a “good” job and retire after 40 + years of servitude to some thank less employer. That might have worked before, but not today. Continue Reading
Do you fully understand the characteristics of money? I have 2 short stories for you….
Ron Blue, an author and financial planner from Atlanta, was approached by an 80 year old retired pastor, who wanted his counsel, because he was admitting his wife to a full-time nursing care facility. He wanted Ron’s help in making sure his finances were in order.
Ron sat down and asked the man some questions and discovered that he had been a pastor his entire working life, serving in mostly remote country churches.
In his entire career, he had never earned more than $8,000 per year. With the high cost of nursing care, Ron was concerned. He then asked about the man’s debts and assets.
What he heard will never be forgotten . . . Continue Reading
