Yes, I'm saying that having your own place to live and financial security are not birthrights.
I'm not saying that they're birthrights, however you shouldn't expect a minimum after faithfully working for a company for an extended period of time and then, all of a sudden, get laid off and go from being working middle-class to being on either welfare or poor.
You want to keep your job in a big business? You should have to work for your pay. You want to keep your job in a small business? Work to keep the company afloat in its troubled times.
And if the company doesn't care, or just lets you go through no fault of your own?
Society doesn't owe you a single penny that you haven't put your own effort into earning -- and it's that same incoherently stupid sense of entitlement that has caused this crisis in the first place. You can't have a half-million dollar home just because you're over the age of 18 and no longer live with your parents. You have to put forth half a million dollars of work into the economy before you deserve to live there -- or be willing to do so over the next 30 years while someone who trusts you enough to do that job owns the house for you.
Again, I'm not expecting something for nothing.
You can't have a $30,000 car because you're a $15-an-hour manager at taco bell. You haven't earned it, and you can't earn it at your current pace.
But that doesn't mean that the only car you could afford is an old, unreliable POS.
Now, like I said, there are situations where bad luck is involved. It happens. I can relate. You get a new job, they have you move, get you started on a house, and suddenly they have layoffs because C-level can't read the future -- you and your family are homeless. You did everything right and now you're poor. You lose the house. You start over.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
The road to poverty is not a 1-way street, and can be reversed in a matter of months when a man puts his mind and strength to it. It happens. I've done it -- but it stops the second you think anyone with money owes you a second chance. It stops the second you start feeling sorry for yourself. It stops the second you feel you deserve a rest before you've even made it back onto your feet. You shouldn't waste your time with jobs that won't be able to pay the bills, but you may have to stoop your mighty self to the ones that will just cover them for a while, meanwhile looking for additional avenues of revenues.
If this economic turmoil leaves you in the poorhouse, take this advice: Become a man and get things done, son.
I appreciate the hard talk, but isn't a one-way street. Good things can happen too, and if you only concentrate on the bad, more bad things will continue to happen while you ignore the good.
