In my early years, I was employed at a
veterinary practice which was suffering management
turmoil.
While elk hunting in November of 1988, my fireside
chats with my buddies focused on adjustments I
should make once back at work.
However, my smoke-seasoned plans were soon
rendered meaningless after all staff veterinarians
were offered a 30 percent pay cut to keep our jobs.
I was married with three little ones, had a
mortgage, was unemployed for the first time, yet
felt an enormous sense of relief.
Apparently, I
wasn’t picking up what God was putting down, so He
shoved me.
In 45 days, I secured a building, staff,
equipment and inventory and began chasing the
American dream.
The first year of a start-up business is not
all sugar plums and lollipops and there is a fine
line between being self-employed and unemployed.
During the cold winter days when folks
weren’t riding their horses through the wire or
running over their blue heeler with the feed truck,
I wondered exactly which side of the line I
occupied.
Over the years, I tolerated the slow seasons
by capitalizing on the busy ones.
God has
blessed me with both and this brings me to my point.
In 2014, a Pew study showed sixty percent of
citizens felt the American dream was unachievable.
This is predictable, because since garnering
power in 2008, President Obama cultivated misery by
claiming the success of the little people originates
entirely from the generosity of the ruling class.
This incessant progressive dogma eventually
squelches ambition, risk, dedication and ingenuity
with hopelessness eventually infecting our great
experiment in freedom.
However, Pew discovered 82 percent of today’s
respondents either have achieved, or are achieving
the American dream.
What a flip.
Just as with Ronald Reagan following the
Carter years, Donald Trump’s Make America Great
Again agenda is stimulating an American economic
explosion due to rampant optimism in the producing
class.
The Democrats, the never-Trump Republicans, the
media and the Washington bureaucratic cartel fear
their ruling kingdom is withering before their eyes.
Let’s hope so.
Today, even though optimism has replaced
pessimism, the heavily indoctrinated millennials are
still choosing free stuff over freedom.
A Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
study shows 44 percent of millennials prefer
socialism over capitalism.
Attention
millennials:
If you continue to swallow the progressive
lie of dependency, you will be on your knees and
begging your entire life.
Liberty and free-market capitalism leads to
the American dream, so you best chase it now rather
than waiting for God to shove you.
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