Various Topics on Lamborghini

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When you leave this earth and your expensive car behind to stand
before your Creator, how will you explain to Him why you spent so much
money on a car in the face of so many others' unmet basic needs?

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He will say "You worked hard, you did well, using your brain the way I
intended"

Obviously you did not!!What will you tell him?


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: When you leave this earth and your expensive car behind to stand
: before your Creator, how will you explain to Him why you spent so much
: money on a car in the face of so many others' unmet basic needs?

that luxury automobiles are made by people with families to feed.

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On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:31:35 -0700 (PDT), M_P <m_p@rocketmail.com
wrote:
Easy, I'd say "They had the same opportunities as I did." Fact of the
matter is, no one gave it to me (my inheritance was a letter opener,
worth about $5) and I didn't steal it (worked for everything I have.)

Of course self-righteous people don't believe it, but that's life!

Try this on for size:

Father/daughter talk...

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so
many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal
Democrat, and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of
higher taxes to support more government programs, in other words,
redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch
Republican, a feeling she openly expressed.

Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional
chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored
an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher
taxes on the rich and the need for more government programs.

The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be
the truth and she indicated so to her father.

He asked how she was doing in school.

Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and
let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was
taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which
left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew.

She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't have time for
partying with friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, 'How is your friend Audrey doing?'

She replied, 'Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy
cl***es, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so
popular on campus; college for her is a blast. She's always invited to
all the parties and lots of times she doesn't even show up for her
cl***es because she's too hung over.'

Her wise father asked his daughter, 'Why don't you go to the Dean's
office and ask him to deduct 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your
friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and
certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA.'

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily
fired back, That's insane!

How could that be fair???

I've worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time,
and a lot of hard work!

Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree. She played while I
worked my tail off!'

The father sheepishly smiled, winked and said gently, 'Welcome to the
Republican party.'

I've never heard a better explanation of the difference between
Republican and Democrat.

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On Sep 22, 5:25*pm, "Joe Gliebe" <autorest...@bellsouth.netwrote:
Which is how you got the money. What about how you used it?
Non sequitur.

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On Sep 23, 1:41*am, "Low Life #3" <holden_mcthy...@hotmail.comwrote: There are (at least) two problems with that reasoning:

* The necessities that those with unmet basic needs could have
purchased with that money are also made by people with families to
feed.
* At best, that's an argument for not participating in a sudden m***
rush out of the luxury car market, since only such a spike would leave
workers without employment alternatives. Since there's no realistic
chance of such a sudden m*** rush, your logic fails.

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On Sep 23, 6:58*am, PeterD <pet...@hipson.netwrote: Every single one of them? Can you provide any reason to believe that?
Your Creator gave you everything you have and everything you are.
You think your Creator sets the bar that low: spend it however you
want, just don't steal it?
I believe nobody on earth gave it to you and you didn't steal it.
Try this on for size: I'm opposed to government redistribution of
wealth.

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You are sitting in a house with electricity, running water etc. etc. and
typing all this stuff on a personal computer, while 50% of the earth's
population can barely feed themselves on a daily basis- how do you reconcile
that ?

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On Sep 23, 1:41 am, "Low Life #3" <holden_mcthy...@hotmail.comwrote: There are (at least) two problems with that reasoning:

* The necessities that those with unmet basic needs could have
purchased with that money are also made by people with families to
feed.

true enough, however the costs of living where lurury automobiles are made
are, generally higher than where people with unmet basic needs live.


* At best, that's an argument for not participating in a sudden m***
rush out of the luxury car market, since only such a spike would leave
workers without employment alternatives. Since there's no realistic
chance of such a sudden m*** rush, your logic fails.

no, my logic stands. and speaking of realistic chances, since I don't
believe in a Biblical style creator, certainly not some flea bitten guy in a
flowing robe and a long beard who appears to people in the desert there's
not much chance I'll be standing before him, is there?

..venturem..

On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:31:35 -0700 (PDT), M_P <m_p@rocketmail.com
wrote:

Wow, what a question. Here is a simple answer.

I will only be able to answer to one of my creators, as my mother is
dead. My father, however, the remaining creator, works hard, enjoys
some luxuries, provides housing and opportunities across an array of
incomes (from subsidized/HUD to high-end). He's pretty proud that he
has a pair of college graduates for kids who put themselves through
school (no help from him), one who provides a fantasti home for 4 kids
and a husband, both of those work very hard in their city helping
causes, charities, etc.

Myself, the other college grad forwent his engineering degree to turn
to financial services where I help people build the wealth that will
see them through retirement without ending up homeless, and all the
whlie protecting their families against fiscal devestation should one
die. I'm actually going to a funeral tomorrow eve for one of my
clients who would have been left a penniless mom with two young
teenage daughters were it not for the services I guided them through.

I sleep quite well at night. I know my two creators are proud of me. I
know that I do a good thing and yes, I enjoy a few luxuries while I am
alive and able to do so. I don't look down on others, I would happily
lend a helping hand, but I do not give to organized
fraud....errr..Charities the way my sister does. I help people
directly through mentoring and the occasional financial help.

I am not the least bit religious but just as the organized
brainwashing books would have you believe, I also believe in doing
right by other people. I watch choices. If you make bad ones, don't
expect me to bail you out. If you have opportunities and let them
slide by or procastinate until it's too late, don't come after me for
help or my tax dollars. That's YOUR fault. Again, I sleep quite well
at night knowing that I *DO* make a significant difference in peoples
lives when they need it the most.

What, might I ask, do YOU do besides sit back in the comfort of your
own home typing on that luxurious computer (82% of the worlds
population can't afford them you know) and try to judge others without
any background at all? That, my dear M_P, might be an interesting
response to read...