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Not personal, not an attack but do you see the conflict between those 2 bolded statements?

Mowed multi yards after work and on weekends cut n sold firewood if there’s a will there’s a way😉

I'll be giving my grandson a few acres to build his home on, free and clear, and eventually he will take over running my machine shop. He's earned it- - - -he's an 80% disabled Marine veteran- - - -combat injuries from his time in the sand box- - - -still works his butt off 6 days a week and takes care of his family- - - -pays his bills on time and doesn't complain. He's earned my respect, and a little help if he chooses to accept my offer.

Oh absolutely.

But it will be earned by hard work and making good choices. My folks loaned me money for my first home (repaid) so I doubt they’d have an issue doing the same for my sons. Call it a hand up, not a handout. And this is all dependent on the future global financial situation. If earnings catch up to buying power, there’d be no need.

Their house is less than 1000 sq ft. They paid $340k for it 8 years ago. It’s worth over $900k not. Yes, lots of equity but he has a postage stamp yard and is in a jam-packed development. To buy anything on a lot like your kids he’d be looking at $1.5m

Yes, it’s where he lives, but it is what it is and he wouldn’t do much better moving anywhere else except to the middle of nowhere, where there are no jobs.

7mmBuster, I'm right there with ya.

The 1970s were good to us - nice new location in AZ, new/better job, 4 daughters ages 1 through 9 healthy/happy/bright, decent mortgage on a nicer home than we would have imagined, a couple of very good used vehicles, and well into rifles/hunting.

In 2024, can't complain about how our 6 grand kids are doing - younger ones progressing well in college studies, older ones married well, in responsible jobs, buying homes (Yes - like the daughters, I lend them mortgage down payment $$ at zero interest and they always pay it back), etc..

But, I am quite worried about the worsening developments in our country, wanting to be effective in helping turn it around, concerned about what kind of "liberty" I am leaving for them while knowing that their values, competence and work ethics are not the problem.

Just a simple TV glimpse of those rioting idiots, each of Lying Biden's next immoral/degrading actions, rotten behavior of most of the media - even seeing a young kid glued to a cellphone screen - causes me to want to ---------- ?.

I despise this 2024 situation - and the feeling. Need to do some positive things.

My kids did ok. The oldest, most capable and industrious, somewhat idiot savant, actually stated, without any irony at all, that after 20 hours working his coffee roasting, a day off working outside as a carpenter's helper shouldn't be questioned. He's self taught in various engineering branches enough to design mountain bikes, his elaborate coffee roaster, and other things well enough for industry fabricators to be impressed and turn out useful things to his drawings and specifications. But he has no money and can't figure out why. Doesn't know which way a screen door should swing or how to write a budget and get bids or prices to build a house. It's baffling from a kid who aced his calculus final without a calculator after his died. His sister got two masters degrees on other peoples' dime and did smart things in public health, flipped real estate, played office politics like Machiavelli, married a lawyer and had a baby. She isn't really devious or lazy but struggle or sacrifice doesn't really drive her. The other kid is a plodding tortoise with a State Job, but red pilled, amused at the irony. He doesn't need or want much. None of them take me all that seriously. Might be wise...

“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”

Michael Hopf

Absofuckinglootly Jim !

Lots of us doing it, but sadly, we are not the majority anymore.

Somehow, that has become non normal !

Yes indeed.

Raeford, I see the same on Facecrook. People I went to school with being full fledged communists. Had it out with a couple few of them. Then decided it just wasn't worth my time. These people's minds are not going to be changed by words.

For those that remember it's 1980 all over again. An idiot democRAT in the Whitehouse and a congress that is left of center. The big difference is very few people know how to be self sufficient. They don't own enough land to have a garden and don't know what a pressure cooker is. Even with 5 acres you can feed out a pig or calf to eating weight. We had lockers and butchers and freezers if we were wealthy enough. If we didn't have it we were real close to someone who did.

No one knows how to buck a hay bale, drive a tractor or milk a cow. This change has been going on for a long time. Now we have 40 million illegals in America and they are driving up every cost in the book. Rent, gasoline, groceries. Everything is under demand and that means inflation.

It all goes back to an idiot in the Whitehouse and a left of center Congress. We also have a lack of religious values. America was built and designed to hold people with values that revolved around religion. Yes, even jews have some values. And the moslems I met in Afghanistan had values too and at least the young terps I had wanted what we have in America. We have allowed the zealots and the radicals take over America.

I look at nancy piglosi and cryin' chucky schumer and I see power and control hungry people who are out to destroy what America was and can be so they can have more power and control. I see an entire deomcRAT party who kiss their leftist a$$es because they have drank the leftist kool aid.

We see how the political left has stolen an election and pulled off a coup but people refuse to see the big story (my wife's family) They blindly go to the polls and vote like they did 45 years ago because doing the research and looking at the facts don't fit into their daily schedule.

Until Americans wake up and see the big picture we will continue to decline. We need to be talking about being self sufficient and not dependent on a government for our survival. But, it's easier to just suck the government tit and dumb and happy.

Rant over.

kwg

Down the road, neibers raised six children on 120 acres..

Spend into eternity on Ukraine blows my fuqkin mind hell with our vets hell with our borders 🤬

After arriving back home in Oregon, during the fall of 69, at the end of my 3 year Army tour (part of in Nam) I was greeted with rocks, being called a baby killer, and not very welcome in various places. I went to work logging and married, a farm girl from Iowa. Soon I realized that while I loved the woods and being outdoors, it was not going to last. A son and eventually two daughters solidified the need for something more permanent.
I completed my Associate of science degree and entered a lifetime of wildland fire suppression, where I spent the next 50 years of my life, a rewarding and at sometimes very exciting occupation . My children have done well, one is engineer, the other a senior manager of a large company. In addition my step son and daughter are a physicist and school principal at a large high school. Grandchildren include two registered nurses, a a trainee commercial Airline pilot, (trainee, and a super achiever in the 7 th grade . My first Great Grandchild was born as a healthy boy and I am looking forward to seeing him. We have a couple of failures, as well, like most, but the majority have followed our family's determination to do well and help others as we can.

“The World Turned Upside Down” was the tune played by the British band at the surrender at Yorktown. I know exactly how they felt!😟
Really, what in the heck happened to the country that I still thank God for every day?
I got married in 1985, and the Army offered me a good start in life for Carol and I.
My Old Man was a veteran, and I felt I was lucky to be born here.
But the last few decades, I can honestly relate to the Sioux and Cheyenne of the northern plains around 1878. Most everything that I held sacred is becoming a thing of the past.
Even my Christian God is under attack from a government that has clearly declared war on the very ideals that I believe in!
Thomas Jefferson once said that “resistance to tyranny is obedience to God”!
My ticket is punched through the Blood of My Savior. Bribem and his buddies got nothing on me.
If I am killed fighting for the nation I swore to defend, my Fathers mansion, I’m sure has got a room for me.
But I’m worried about my kids. Ben, Sara, and Jake. They didn’t have the great faith that Mom and Dad gave to me as a kid.
Part of it is my fault, and Carols as well. But i know we did the best we could.
I really hate being this negative. You folks that know me know better than that!😀
Maybe too many things are weighing on my mind today?
I’ll be back tomorrow, after an evening of prayer with a more positive attitude!😀
Reon

Thx for ur service reon 👍

Feel fortunate to say that probably 30 percent of kids we went to school with seem like libs these days. But its getting worse even in rural USA

They're going to arrest you if you're going there to shoot anything, even rats.

There had better be a good reason for this too....and I can't think of one.