(09-20-2021, 07:34 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(09-20-2021, 07:00 PM)Jags Wrote: I don’t blame you a bit.  As mentioned, i did come across “white Privilege cards while trying to find “play cash” to help my daughter learn money. I did buy them.   I know you’re Hispanic.  But I also know you’ve  worked your butt off and served our country to get to where you are now.  My post was meant to mimic the  “cool” Stephen Colbert when he was in character as a Republican, and funny.  Was meant for comedy and nothing else.  I’m sure it was funnier in my head.

No worries bro.

My ethnicity means nothing (unless you are a liberal that has to put people into groups).  I'm "just a guy" born and bread in our great country.

My wife and I did work our butts off to get to where we are now.  We started out in a rented small single-wide trailer with one car, my wife working two jobs (manager at McDonald's and delivering the Times Union) and both of us getting maybe 4 hours of sleep at night (I was in the Navy at the time).

I used to "hustle" and work "part time jobs" on the side for extra money.  Everything from roofing to drywall work to electrical work and sometimes... mowing grass.  We saved money over the years and bought our first home.  We still continued to save money, but also "indulged" a bit by buying a boat and taking some nice vacations.  As we started "getting older (into our 40's) we eventually decided that we wanted to make a change and get our "retirement home".  We paid off all of our debt including our mortgage, saved money and eventually bought our property in December of 2017 and have worked to make our dream come true.

Our story is the very essence of the "American dream".  We worked hard starting with very little and are now able to enjoy the fruits of our labor.  The current regime wants to penalize us for our hard work and success because we are supposedly "the rich".  My tax bill every year probably exceeds many people's incomes.  It makes me sick to see how people think that they are "entitled" to what my wife and I worked so hard for.

More young people need to understand this is often the way life plays out. It's very very difficult/lucky to hit the ground running at 24 years old and pulling in 70k or whatever like a lot of younger generations seem to expect. 

I remember very early on in my farming career the price of grapes improved a bit and I netted like 30k dollars for the first time. I couldn't even fathom that kind of money because I'd been clearing something like 18k-22k for the prior few years. Now I look back and kinda wonder how the hell I functioned early on.

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