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For a southern boy calling cornbread ‘bread and water’ are fighting words… 😁

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Well I never choked on cornbread. Maybe because I crumbled it up into my milk, or maybe because I smashed it up into my peas. You can order a pound of black-eyed peas from Amazon for under $2.00/pound and a 9 packets of cornbread mix for under $13:00. That’s a heck of a lot less expensive...

Guess what the majority of the meals I had when growing up were… Answer: Cornbread and back-eyed peas. There are lots of ways to reduce food expenses and going to Mickey Dee’s isn’t one of them.

Do you think it was better in the early 20th century when the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Carnages, Morgans, Guggenheims, and Fords held the majority of all wealth in the world?

Maybe. But I grew up in a rather poor area - one of the rural counties in east Alabama. And with today’s technology there is no reason to be limited by the schools in your area. You have access to the world’s knowledge at your finger tips.

The problem that I see is that too many folks are expecting someone or something else to improve their life situation, and that’s rarely going to happen. So they don’t do the things that are necessary to make them more attractive to potential employees. And then they complain about how unfair...

This is why it is so important too continue learning after you have left school. So that if you recognize opportunities, you can take advantage of them. Way back when about the only way to do this was to read a lot (mostly non-fiction) and continue learn new things. When I was in high...

I like your thoughts. But your first sentence is a prime example of the fundamental difference between the two basic groups that I described earlier. 1) the folks that strongly feel they are responsible for themselves and 2) those that feel that someone else is responsible. The folks in...

True, and that’s because real estate has a tangible value. There’s a saying that investors in the stock market frequently say, “You only lose money when you sell.” The opposite is also true, you only make money when you sell. The property becomes more valuable because people are willing to...

It sounds like you missed out on the rule - you only have to get rich once. If you had a share of successes, then that would have been time to protect what you had attained. And of the folks not improving their lot, how many are not putting what assets they have to work to create additional...

Not quite true. Money is simply a means of transfer. For the worker in most cases it’s the cash you receive for exchange of your time. You work and get paid. There is not a finite amount of cash in the world. If that was the case then we would only have a fraction of the total cash that...

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If I were one out of millions - they why is the number of new millionaires increasing by roughly 24% annually currently. It’s now way over 22 million.

Nonsense. First of all Amazon is not the producer of products. They are a reseller. They resell or just ship items produced by other companies. So they have to deal with how much it cost from the manufacture. If any company that had a similar market plan couldn’t compete because of price...

It wouldn’t have been an issue. I became a programmer because at the time there were very few people in that field, and I saw an opportunity. If it had been crowded I would have chosen another field. This was in the mid-1970s. Don’t feed me the racism/sexist line. The vast majority of the...

Well, why don’t you list specific examples of how these men broke laws or rules. And if the successful men put many out of work, why is the unemployment rate lower than it’s been in years? I don’t know of any laws or rules that any of these folks broke.

Well, not really. I got a lot of raises since 1980.

I learned a long time ago that I was only worth (in money) what someone considered my value to be. I couldn’t just ‘demand’ a certain income. I had to be of more value to my employer than I would receive in pay. I had to be highly productive if I wanted to be highly paid. I also learned a...

Some RVs are wired for 50 AMP and some are wired for 30 AMP. If your rig is wired for 30 AMP then you’d be wasting money on 50 AMP. Usually the 50 AMP rigs have two air conditioners and 50 AMPs are needed to power that. Basically all the AMP means is how much electricity is allowed into the...