XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 08/07/2011 9:58 PM, John Fleming wrote:   
   > On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:47:35 -0600, while chained to a desk   
   > in the scriptorium Canuck57  wrote:   
   >> $On 06/07/2011 11:31 PM, merlin! wrote:   
   >> $>>>  $That may be true for some, but not all.   
   >> $>>   
   >> $>>  You're just being a whiner trying to come up with excuses   
   >> $>>  why a better financial life can't be yours.   
   >> $>   
   >> $>  What are you, man? Some freaking infomercial mouthpiece for an   
   >> $>  investment/insurance company? You are full of crap, you know?   
   >> $   
   >> $Works for most of us that try.  And I don't use insurance or investments   
   >> $to manage my money.  Have home, auto insurance and that is it.  I   
   >> $started to learn how to invest and management my own back in the 80s.   
   >> $   
   >> $>>  If you spent half as much time solving your problems as you   
   >> $>>  do complaining about them, you'd be streets ahead.   
   >> $>   
   >> $>  What do you know about anything I have done, or not done, or tried to   
   do?   
   >> $>  You sound like some sort of snake-oil salesman, peddiling a cure-all   
   >> $>  tonic.   
   >> $   
   >> $John gave you a huge piece of wisdom there.  As success always comes to   
   >> $those that truly try to be better.   
   >   
   > Years ago, I heard a snippet out of a motivational speech.   
   > And the more I thought about it, the more I realized what   
   > the speaker said could be generalized.   
   >   
   > The speaker said words to the effect of, "I've heard it said   
   > that, to get ahead, women have to be twice as good.  Well. I   
   > say, you can spend your time complaining about how you have   
   > to be twice as good, or you can spend your time becomeing   
   > twice as good."   
   >   
   > Well, you can substitute whatever identifiable group you   
   > want for women--disabled, black, aboriginal, Jewish, even   
   > white anglo-saxon male (if it turns your crank--and the idea   
   > is just as true.   
   >   
   > And,  BTW, the motivational speaker in question was a woman.   
   >   
      
   Bottom line, life is what YOU make it.   
      
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   Now the real war is on Obama-debt, to save America's future.   
   And do it for your kids sake....and ignore the selfish fleabags...   
      
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