XPost: can.general, can.politics   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 18/04/2010 3:47 PM, Sharx35 wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   > "Alan Baggett"  wrote in message   
   > news:8445f00a-6470-4342-89d0-423dcdaae198@c36g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...   
   >> On Apr 17, 7:47 pm, Canuck57  wrote:   
   >>> In 2008 I decided I wasn't going to bust a hump to keep paying insane   
   >>> levels of taxation like a tax-slave sheeples. When it looked like   
   >>> Banks, GM, Chrysler & "friend of government" corporations were getting   
   >>> debt funded taxes, I just spun out. How can the buggers be worried   
   >>> about tooth paste at hospitals and pop so much on debtors, welshers and   
   >>> losers...   
   >>>   
   >>> So I decided to cut in half my annual work hours of the last 2 years. I   
   >>> now work a lot less. It feels good. Even have less stress from autos,   
   >>> only have one down from three. Pulled off 20 pounds, sleep better and   
   >>> eat better. Even had my wife leave work (she wanted too) and now get a   
   >>> juicy dependant deduction.   
   >>>   
   >>> It almost seems if you work 1/2 as hard, you get 3/4th of the net   
   >>> income. It even seems to go farther. Don't ask me how, it just does.   
   >>>   
   >>> Makes me wonder how many others are spinning out and getting off the   
   >>> government tax-slave tread mill. That is, opting out of the endless   
   >>> carrot chase.   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>> Time to ask, is our government serving us or are we serving the   
   >>> government?   
   >>   
   >> It's amazing that more people don't realize this.   
   >>   
   >> But they're so busy working to pay for the stuff that they bought that   
   >> they don't need that I doubt they ever will.   
   >   
   > Precisely. And the YOUNGER they are, they more foolish, re spending.   
   > Didn't their parents teach them ANYTHING about thrift?   
      
   Parents were too busy working to keep up with the Jones, pay taxes, pay   
   debt and got home too late and tired to teach their kids a damned thing.   
     Don't listen to the grand parents and they don't come around because   
   all the kids want is money.   
      
   I was lucky, I had grandparents that spent a lot of their precious time   
   with us, passing on the need to understand money, conservation during   
   good time and the like.  They even talked us into saving allowances for   
   bigger more valuable stuff, even had a $5 bank account.  Sounds like   
   jack shit today but I learned a lot in having that account for 12 years.   
      
   Today, where is the nuke food and plunk...just rats on a wheel going   
   nowhere.  You can even see thse types at work, they come in bagged, late   
   and no interest.  Then they leave early.  Next day the kid is sick so   
   they are off at the drop of a hat.  Then they get all defensive and   
   pissed for not getting up the ladder.   
      
   --   
   Time to ask, is our government serving us or are we serving the government?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)