Gated communities

Chrissy wrote:If no one gets rich, how will our economy function?

and biblically speaking the lord did not care for lazyness and he spoke specifically about fools.

what about job? job was very wealthy, the lord loved job, fav if I remmeber correctly. job had to loose everything because the devil challenged god to prove if job was faithful even poor. and he was.

reading a couple of peoples post on here makes me thing some people want a world where everyone works and they all get the same rewards given to them, as in an alotment. This is simply what comes to my mind when I see all this talk.

knothead wrote:

Chrissy wrote:If no one gets rich, how will our economy function?

and biblically speaking the lord did not care for lazyness and he spoke specifically about fools.

what about job? job was very wealthy, the lord loved job, fav if I remmeber correctly. job had to loose everything because the devil challenged god to prove if job was faithful even poor. and he was.

reading a couple of peoples post on here makes me thing some people want a world where everyone works and they all get the same rewards given to them, as in an alotment. This is simply what comes to my mind when I see all this talk.

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Not being critical but I think you are missing the point Mr. Oats has made here.

knothead wrote:

Chrissy wrote:If no one gets rich, how will our economy function?

and biblically speaking the lord did not care for lazyness and he spoke specifically about fools.

what about job? job was very wealthy, the lord loved job, fav if I remmeber correctly. job had to loose everything because the devil challenged god to prove if job was faithful even poor. and he was.

reading a couple of peoples post on here makes me thing some people want a world where everyone works and they all get the same rewards given to them, as in an alotment. This is simply what comes to my mind when I see all this talk.

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Not being critical but I think you are missing the point Mr. Oats has made here.

2seaoat wrote:I am visiting my brother in Az. He lives in an exclusive gated community called Desert Mountain. The houses sit on the side of a mountain, and the higher you go up the mountain, the more expensive the lots become. I looked out his window to the home of the lady who had written the twilight series of books which have been converted into a very popular and profitable movie franchise.

We had to stop at the maingate. We were questioned by a security person, and after three or four minutes we were able to enter. We then come to his particular enclave of houses, and there was another security gate where you had to enter a code to get into that road system. I finally got to my brothers house and he had a gate installed at the street on his 500 foot driveway. His house is 13k square feet and has an elevator and a beautiful pool which transcends into a waterfall as you drive up his driveway. He has a guest house.

He built the house with his son, and he has been a very successful contractor. I know the challenge of building this home was what kept him going for 6 years, but now when it is finished, he finds out he also has cancer and his prostate was taken out two weeks ago. As I sit with him and discuss life, grandchildren, and the future, I simply ask him does he plan to stay in this house. He immediately tells me that since he has been sick he has reevaluated his choices......I was please to hear this wisdom. As William Blake wrote two centuries ago.....the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.....I think this nation has to look at our values and how the income disparity of this country has led us somewhere that none of us recognize. I look at this beautiful natural mountain and wonder where our values have gone........this nation must find wisdom from our mistakes, and we must understand that living high on the mountain makes little differnce in the end, but that when the least among us go without......well that will be how we will be judged.

PACEDOG#1 wrote:I wish I could afford to move my family out of the place we are living. My wife bought her house just weeks before Ivan for 89k. She did get a 15k first time home buyer credit and it takes off that much for staying in it 5 years. Last appraisal was about 55 and the neighbor down the street just sold her house for about the same. We have seven empty homes on our street now. Empty homes attract ne'erdowells (meth, crack rock folks etc). Kids are now starting to congregate here and there looking for a place to party. Fortunately, we've been able to run off some due to the employment we both have. People are selling for less than 55-57k on houses that were 90k before 2006. It's getting close to the point where we might just get some land and a trailer further out into the county and let this house go because the neighborhood is going to hell in a handbasket fast. We don't send our youngest to public schools already because of the neighborhood. Elementary kids around the area are already involved in the DJJ system to go along with the myriad of pervs that the FDLE says live within a mile radius.
Seaoat,
He can trade with me any day.

Chrissy wrote:

knothead wrote:

Chrissy wrote:If no one gets rich, how will our economy function?

and biblically speaking the lord did not care for lazyness and he spoke specifically about fools.

what about job? job was very wealthy, the lord loved job, fav if I remmeber correctly. job had to loose everything because the devil challenged god to prove if job was faithful even poor. and he was.

reading a couple of peoples post on here makes me thing some people want a world where everyone works and they all get the same rewards given to them, as in an alotment. This is simply what comes to my mind when I see all this talk.

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Not being critical but I think you are missing the point Mr. Oats has made here.

Its possible Im missing the point. I can only give my interpretation going from the long story about living on a mountain to those less fortunate going without.

charity also comes to mind in these instances, because wealthy people even middle class people give a lot to charity.

so maybe i do not know what he is getting at. But the thought reminded me of what kind of world would it be if there were no wealthy people? Could 7 billion people toil the ground and run the mills etc and devide the booty up equally amongst all with out some sort of huge gov intervention?

reminds me of that sweet john lennon song that I always thought would never work and wouldnt want it to. like the song though

Wordslinger wrote:

Chrissy wrote:

knothead wrote:

Chrissy wrote:If no one gets rich, how will our economy function?

and biblically speaking the lord did not care for lazyness and he spoke specifically about fools.

what about job? job was very wealthy, the lord loved job, fav if I remmeber correctly. job had to loose everything because the devil challenged god to prove if job was faithful even poor. and he was.

reading a couple of peoples post on here makes me thing some people want a world where everyone works and they all get the same rewards given to them, as in an alotment. This is simply what comes to my mind when I see all this talk.

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Not being critical but I think you are missing the point Mr. Oats has made here.

Its possible Im missing the point. I can only give my interpretation going from the long story about living on a mountain to those less fortunate going without.

charity also comes to mind in these instances, because wealthy people even middle class people give a lot to charity.

so maybe i do not know what he is getting at. But the thought reminded me of what kind of world would it be if there were no wealthy people? Could 7 billion people toil the ground and run the mills etc and devide the booty up equally amongst all with out some sort of huge gov intervention?

reminds me of that sweet john lennon song that I always thought would never work and wouldnt want it to. like the song though

The real question is, how many folks have to live in misery so some fat ass can live in a castle on a mountaintop -- a subject which must be missing from your Bible . . .

The cure, of course, is that eventually the number of those living in misery reaches a point where it takes a helluva lot more than a few gates to stop those dedicated to revolution and a better, more equitable and fulfilling life for all.

Oh jeez ... that last paragraph could have been written by Jesus ...