Quote from: B.A.S. on January 27, 2015, 02:15:29 PM

Especially in this forum, just want to point out your comment is very wise and something I subscribe to myself. In a lot of ways, the middle class is voluntarily hanging itself. We need to get re-energized about our place in the world once more. Prior to these inflated decades of entitlement, the middle class man was revered for his sense of duty, honor and commitment to family and friends. He worked hard and it stood for something. Getting rich was not his idea of life, though perhaps a by-product.

Why thank you

! A very kind thing to say.

Quote from: B.A.S. on January 27, 2015, 02:15:29 PM

We need to get re-energized about our place in the world once more.

^^ I could not agree more with this. It has taken many a hard working man to create the society in which we are blessed to be currently living in today. Our forefathers have fought for centuries told to fight for the standard of living that most of us in the west enjoy today. They would probably be immensely proud of how far our species has come and the fruits that our and there labour have brought. However, I am also sure they would be a little pleased to see how are appetites for bigger and better have increased exponentially, whereas our hunger to work hard for such improvements has practically vanished.

In Asia, that hunger is growing. Watch the east.