Dear Rich People,

I wanted to take the time to thank you for being wealthy. Since no one has taken the time to do so I thought I would. When I was in high school I spend most of my class time sleeping and daydreaming about being rich. While you were listening in class. When I was out partying and having fun, you were at home studying. When it was about time to graduate, I realized I probably would never get out of this little town. So I decided to join the military instead of graduating. I spent my time defending this country and all its values and freedoms. Once again there was allot of partying. While I was doing that you were studying in college. When I got out of the military I took a low paying job. You were graduating college. You took time away form your family to further your career. You took risks and invested your money. I did not. You sacrificed your time and and money to make your life better. I look at my pay stubs and groan and complain about how much taxes I am paying, but I often wonder how much more they take from you. Sometimes I am so jealous of you and your new cars and nice houses. I think to myself that I am a good person and deserve those things and wished I had the same opportunities as you. But then I realize I did. I cannot be mad at you for your success. I cannot be jealous of the things you have. You give more then I can ever imagine and yet you get no thanks. I will pray for your continued success in these hard times. You have earned it. I pray that jealous people will appreciate that you give more to them in so many ways that they just don't understand.

Once again
THANK YOU

Clayton E. Glover

Holy crap!!! Very astute and mature assessment!!!
Yes, there are rich folks that grind and groove on making others poorer, etc., but you are correct, most are just good hard working forward thinking folks who put in the time.
But, you are still young enough to make some changes so you don't have to stay jealous, and it's okay to be jealous if you use it in a healthy way, as a tool.

So, everyone who isn't rich daydreamed and slept in school? Everyone who isn't rich didn't study? Everyone who isn't rich spent their time partying? Everyone not rich is a drop out? Everyone who is rich sacrificed their family to make more money for that family and that's a good thing?

I didn't daydream or sleep in school. I am not rich.

I studied and went to college and am not rich.

I didn't party and I am not rich.

I am not a drop out and in fact have two college degrees and am not rich.

Some people would rather have parents than adults for whom they feel no connection who just throw money at them.

I think your argument is totally flawed.

what argument?

I did not say the things you said i said.

are you feeling guilty?

I have worked hard to.. i have scarf iced time with my family going for the amrican dream in fact i may have lost them because of it, or maybe i hate them because i wasnt able to as much as i could because of the family.

I am so sick and tired of people attacking the wealthy and trying to take all they have.. it sound like your jealous because your not rich.

the wealthy employ people they pay more taxes then you make in a year. and yet people trash them.

I know dishonest wealthy people and i know honest wealthy people

but i also know dishonest poor people and honest poor people

the fact is.. you are what you want to be..

If i wanted to be wealthy I could be.. I would have to work so hard and not have a life. And why would i want to do this ? just so the the government can take half of what i worked so hard for and give it to undeserving ungrateful people.

It is a damn shame someone cant post something without being attacked.

WORD. THANK YOU. Money is great, but money is only man made and can NOT buy love, or happiness. Money can only improve greed, and will one day ruin society :)

Your letter states your argument. You make broad statements saying that all people who are not rich are are partying losers.

How would you get the idea that I am jealous. I left a 60,000 a year job because money doesn't create happiness. I'm much happier now even thought I make only 1/3 of that.

And you still think it is a good thing that you were so focused on some mythical concept that you let it become more important to your family and may have lost your family to a false promise?

I take exception at being called a dump, drunk loser because I'm not right.

You attacked everyone who is not rich in your post by insulting and deriding everyone that isn't rich.

That could knock a buzzard off a sh$t wagon. Grin!

I never envied the rich. Why would I. I got a very good education, I payed attention in class. I also took a year of college just for music. I did not choose to be wealthy, so what does that make me?

The rich aren't all rich because they worked hard for it, some did, that was their choice, I chose what I wanted and it wasn't wealth.

I put a lot of effort into what I wanted to do also, because it was my choice, and my pleasure and I loved it, but because the goal wasn't to be wealthy, some how the rich need an apology? HUH?

I chose working with my hands, doing difficult work ''because I LOVED it''. I didn't give a spit how much it would pay me. I didn't care if it didn't buy me the fancy cars and the party's and all the associated whatever because that wasn't an attraction to me.

This is a very strange thread...

Well thank you for congratulating me then

WTF people are you people just used to people attacking you?

what does that make you? what the hell do you mean by that?

all i am dong is thanking rich people for their part in the system..

i didnt say day dreaming in school was a bad thing or not being rich was a bad thing..

when i say jealous i dont mean hatred for rich people.. you be honest, you see someone in a really nice car, or partying it up on a yacht.. you dont wish at all you could to do that?

I am being honest and all you people do is attack me for whatever reason.

LOOK.. i tried very hard to provide things for my my family. I worked hard. very hard and got screwed over by almost every employer I had. Seems every odd circumstance happened to me. I tried my own business and went for my dreams as well. I was not successful. Some people just dont make it. I have not given up.

I really dont understand what you aLL ARE FUSING ABOUT

I like the simple things in life and keeping it simple. a lot of the rich worked very hard to make it rich. some...the money is just luck.

I was just thinking if you are going to take the time to thank the rich why not also thank all the people who helped them get there, besides their family members.

I don't know why you assume all poor people or even middle class people would be jealous of the rich. You might be but I am not. Nor do I need to set up an open letter to the rich to thank them for BEING rich? Hmmm maybe we could thank the poor because it leaves more room for a select few to the rich? That would be bizare letter as well.

Lot's of ways we could thank just about everyone for the lifestyle they are in now... Guess I just don't get this at all.

To be honest I don't see the rich blaming the poor for our current situation in the US. The few that are doing that here at mingle don't seem to be anywhere near rich, so that is what blows my mind.

what blows my mind is how people are hating on rich people wanting them to pay more and more taxes.. expecting them topay our mortgages, and so on..

the people who helped them get rich do get thanked.. its called a PAYCHECK....

Actually no, in fact it would never cross my mind, Niceguy, seriously. I don't want the headache of owning all that for one thing, and for another it doesnt' do anything for me. I would much rather be hanging out with a neighbor helping them rebuild a shed or dig a garden than to be on someone's yatch or to have one of my own.

I just prefer a completely different lifestyle. I am so not materialistic, it's just not me and there are millions like me, yet some would make me out to be some how not ambitious as if that is a bad thing. And because too many people hope to be rich no one can afford to just be. The cost of living no longer provides us with a choice, now we have to try to be rich just to have decent health care etc. Something twisted about that.

It goes along with the philosophy that the poor are poor because they want to laze around on the government dole. I did not party and such either.

niceguy4u937

You've made a statement of your own feelings. You did not say anything about anyone else. In fact, you have even underlined your neutral stance on the issue, highlighting only your opinion that everyone gets the same opportunities, and that we get what we go for.

I don't have any problems with your post.

But, some folks clearly do. Like you, I don't understand that. Apparently, these days, one can't even state his feelings without being challenged as if he has done something terribly unfair to somebody.

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Thank you very much

Being rich and successful are a subjective terms. One can be poor yet richly blessed. Success is defined as making all the right choices in life.

Saying the rich are out there making the poor poorer is a broad statement and factually inaccurate. Sure there are those who are doing that, but don't make the argument that they're all doing it that way.

Not all rich people are "evil Republicans" either. You ever look at the amount of money some of these union bosses make? Or perhaps the liberals in Hollywood?

Those union bosses get rich from the dues of average low and middle income wage earners. So yeah, there are instances where the rich are screwing everyone else. They're not all Republicans either.