I said administration, not just the guy on top. Looters are the same it seems, no matter what title they take on. If I were to see a President Reagan in the Oval Office again there would be no hesitation. Take your pick of the Bushes, not so much. Come 2016 I look forward to the pus filled, maggot encrusted, tyrant leaving office - if he does. I can't say how I will respond. It's possible I may keep on doing what I do now, working every day - but I don't sell any of the pieces I make. It's given away to friends, entrusted to galleries - but not sold, I even send out a certain number of pieces for national and international expositions. Again, nothing is sold.

I do give away a lot of my work for various charities' fund raising efforts. Otherwise I'd be drowning in stuff.

If the president changed to someone you supported, though, you'd start earning money again?

Oh, they're much more than mud pies. Mud pies with a cherry on top.
Spelling out FU.

I live my ideals and the BO IRS stole a year and half of my life and didn't even say, sorry when they were PROVED wrong. (yes it was finished space, heat and air. I build good stuff)

As I recall reading a story a man being backed against the wall by some thug (sorry I can't recall where I got this) the thug says "You need to come around to our point of view, after all, if you had a broken leg, you'd call a doctor to fix it. Upright citizen replies "not if he was the one who broke it in the first place".

Edit - I just remembered - it was Mr Thompson to John Galt.

I would not in any way shape or form do anything that forced me to give this administration one penny from the work of my mind or body. It is called standing for ones values and mine exceed whatever money I might earn by prostituting myself for this administration. From this rock I will not be moved - they have no value to trade for my mind.

Yes, it is.
Remember that invalidation of one part does not invalidate the whole.

Please don't give me the same childish response that every individual who thinks about politics and government, and then comments, has been given in place of actual intelligent discussion. *Wesley Mouch voice: "If you don't like it here, you could just LEEEAAAVVE."
No. There are other choices.

Wow. Is the whole thing finished and heated? Even in the countryside it's hard to find finished space in good condition for $50 per sq ft, which would make it worth $140,000.

The trouble is the buyers got a great deal and will have a huge gain when they sell it. If someone's going to pay taxes on it, I'd rather it be the one's who did the work (i.e. you).

I understand, though, that in that case you'd be pulling the trigger. Selling it at no profit means the next seller will be pulling the trigger; and maybe they'll follow your example.

I get the logic, but I would _never_ forgo roughly $100,000 in profit that I earned through hard work. Even if half the population followed your footsteps instead of taking the taxable income, things would change immediately.

I grew up with a hammer in my hand and there's not many things dealing with construction that I've not done. This was a labor of love. Parting with it was an emotional catharsis, closing one door, which opened other doors.

As I said my family helped do all the construction with me sitting on the floor in my wheelchair acting as foreman. Even though my wife and I were in complete agreement about selling the building, including price, I felt that I had to "pay her back" for all her labor in a special way. Our next construction project was a big swimming pool she had wanted for years. It was the least I could do.

About my work, I'm humbled. After all, I work in clay and it's hard to be uppity when you make mud pies all day.

That's impressive. Glad you didn't let them take anything else from you.
You do nice work, by the way! :-)

I make no claim to be amazing or even boring but I purchased the old dilapidated railroad depot in the small town where I build this last business. It was purchased for a very small amount due to the city owning it and wanting it renovated. My family and I did all the remodel work ourselves investing $24000 in materials plus the $1,000 purchase price. The building apprised for $185,000 following our work - THIS was not what I could have ever sold the building for in that town, but this was what the real estate appraiser came up with. My best guess was $95,000.

At the time I decided to sell the property my intent was to sell it in a manner that would insure that the looters would not be able to get one penny form our efforts in that business. After conferring with my accountant and my tax accountant we determined that selling it for any more than $25,000 would result in the proceeds exceeding $25,000 being taxable as income.

The sales price is public record and if anybody wants to bother to look it up I'll tell you where to find it.

Here's what the building looked like when we started - after we replaced doors and windows; http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Larry_...

And here's what it looked like as we were finishing;
http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/Larry_...

It started at 400sf and ended at 2800sf. between the two buildings on the property.

MLM -- multi-level-marketing? like the ponzi schemes
which crawl up and try to bite us? -- j

"my business must have been failing and since I sold my building for $1 less than I had invested in it"
I don't recall saying this, but I might have b/c I generally doubt people say they turned down huge amounts of wealth on principle. I do know of one counter-example. I would certainly be interested if you had a customer or competitor who offered to buy you out at many times earnings. I love those stories. I'm really fascinated by cases where people turn down the offer and get nothing or almost nothing on principle. The one guy I know personally who did so was amazing.

"First off, it wasn't a failing...you're assuming stuff you know nothing about. It was time to galt."
I knew someone who turned down selling something for millions and instead carrying on collecting only tiny rents from it. My first thought was "no way, he didn't have a real offer," but I now believe he did. It definitely happens that people are offered millions of dollars and just turn it down on principle. I've only seen it once, but maybe what I saw wasn't all that rare.

"THEY DON'T LISTEN! And the entire world is telling them otherwise...they won't get it until the gov stops feeding them"
I'm not close to anyone who admits to be looking for a handout. My sister knows some people who live a reasonably middle-class lifestyle only on handouts. They drive me nuts so badly that I just end up not interacting with them. If they ever say something like "I'm through looking for a handout" I would be eager to help. I'm no master sales maker, but I'd at least have a shot at those looking for a change.

I read it many years ago. I agree with everything you said your dad said.

The Rich Dad in the book was a laconic figure who implied the secrets of the rich were available to those who took his seminars or got involved in MLM.

If Rich Dad had said only the things your dad said, I would wholeheartedly recommend the book.

Did either put a stop to the FED? Or did they go along with it and make it a bigger monster? Did either name it what it really is? I just read about Regan yesterday in this book... I don't have the time to post the particulars, but he helped the creature along by using it in the name of helping other countries. (And when you add the words "get food" to the end of that most people jump right on the feel good boogyman band wagon.) And THAT is how it's done and why it continues. It's quite fascinating, in a train wreck sort of way. ALLLLLL ABOARRRRRD!

The workers were unionized. And the elected officials liked their position, and wanted to keep their workers happy, BUT still on the lower rungs. They offered a modicum of power, and the lion's share still lined the dirty pockets of the politicos.

It seems to have gone bad about 1900, Roosevelt, flimy flammy Taft, and then Wicked Wilson.... Where the hell were the voter's head's at. Get a little money in your pocket and your brains go out the window or what?

Wilson was one of the chief propagators.

Thank you for the heads up. I will avoid it like the plague.

I think that's fantastic! He will really enjoy meeting Euda. :-)

I hope he does that. It would be worth the trip to me. Take the long way through Jellystone on the way to a Gulch meetup...bonus!

Look closer.

That sounds a lot like how our country started. Then after 20 years or so, the liberals that had sat out the revolutionary war managed to gain a bit of power and things have been going down hill since. Around the beginning of the 1860's libtards realized that they needed control of the educational system if they were going to make real inroads into the culture and by the 1900's they pushed into politics with Roosevelt's and Wilson.

Today it's almost impossible to find a university that's not a libtard training ground. All pretense of education is gone. It's just programming from day one. Universities are all multi million dollar per semester operations that are some states top industries in earnings and as employers.

When you reach that point, where both education and politics are controlled by liberals and you add in the useful idiots in the press, that great sucking sound you hear are your liberties being sucked away.

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