When the candidate of change was crossing the Country mesmerizing the ignorant, he kept telling anyone who would listen how things had to change and all that he planned on doing.
I remember having conversations with friends and family about what he was saying. I imagine anyone with half of a brain was having the same conversation. Those conversations centered around the question… hey, who is going to pay for all of this?
It did not make sense then and it makes even less sense now. Yet millions of Americans voted for said change. Liberals heralded the boy king and crowned him savior of those less fortunate. Yet, still many who participated seemingly did not ask that question that I pondered of themselves.
Who is going to pay for it? Then the answer came, the rich will pay. They are over achieving hoarders of cash that they don’t need. They should happily give it away to those less fortunate.
And it sounded great to many Americans. But wait! Someone had the audacity to ask that there be some working definition of rich declared.
I mean as Chris Rock once said, Shaquille O’Neal is rich, but Doctor Jerry Buss is wealthy! So just who is rich?
We began hearing the thresholds of rich and some of us who have not had the luxury of missing free throws in the NBA Finals were being considered rich.
I’ve never been to Dubai, don’t own a private jet, and haven’t had an album out recently on the Billboard Hot 100, but all of a sudden like a lot of people in America, I was suddenly rich! I would never have known I was rich if Obama hadn’t told me.
President Obama has proposed ending the Bush tax cuts in 2011, bringing the top rates from 33 percent to 36 percent and from 35 percent to 39.6 percent. The lower of these hikes would apply to individuals making over $200,000 and households making over $250,000…you know all the “rich” people!
Well it seems the little rich people are not the only ones having a problem with this. Even some of those who considered themselves to be supporters of Che Obama are now beginning to freak out a bit.
Recently on the television show The View, one of the hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, a REAL rich person, got a little hot under the collar about the Obama administration being in her pocket…again and again and she’s ready to blow a gasket.
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What was that she said… “I don’t wanna get it coming and going…BACK OFF OF ME!”. Well, maybe all of us “rich people’ should be saying the same thing. I think we all need to holler out the window that “we’re mad as hell and not going to take it anymore”!
Yeah, I’m going to do it right now.
“Honey can you ask Jeeves to come up here and open the window and holler for me. It’s much too hot for me to be bothered”!
What? Have a problem? It’s not that I wouldn’t holler out the window myself but us “rich people” can’t be expected to do such trivial things for ourselves.
I completely agree that the current administration and their policies are not what’s best for this country, but I don’t think the other choice offered would have done any better. They both want to spend obscene amounts of money that we don’t have, they just want to spend it on different things. Both want a larger government with more control. So what’s a voter to do? Damned if you do damned if you dont.
Benjamin,
We will never truly know the answer to which was worse, Obama won, so your point is moot.
As was said in the post, ” we had discussions about how he’s going to pay for all of this”, anyone who did not ask that was living a dream. Let’s not forget that a lot of us are not only suddenly “rich”, but a lot of consumer goods bought by everyone, including the poor, are soon going to have a ton of taxes added to them. It seems that a clueless America has voted for Barack H. Hoover.
Well said Brad!
Thanks Barry,
When I took your course in West Palm, I think it was almost 3 years ago, I didn’t know if I liked you all that much. I knew you knew what you were talking about, but I guess back then I didn’t know how to take you. After reading your blogs since then, I’ve grown to respect you a great deal.
You peg the real estate industry perfectly every time. Growing up in this business, I could tell you some stories, but I bet you’ve heard variations of all of them. It seems that people in this business haven’t changed from year to year, or learned from past mistakes. It’s sad how many of the people hanging around the coffee pot when I was a kid, went on to making ends meet in part time jobs.. Most of them think they will relive their glory days “when this market gets back to normal.” I’m sorry, but this market is “the” normal now.
Anyway, keep up the good posts and remember, there is always a way to make money as long as you can adapt.
Wow brad..that was really cool!
Yeah a lot of agents say I rub them the wrong way. My personality is one of being driven to succeed and to drive others around me to succeed. Life is not always as you want it and as you say. adaptation is the key.
And you are right..the market has changed forever and the way business is transacted is changed forever.
However, their still exists TREMENDOUS opportunity for those that do indeed adapt. For the others the glory days as you describe …will be distant memories.