re: What’s your age, occupation & core political ideology

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Adventurer

American Ideology

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Or do we want to promote a generational growth of wealth?

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Oh I don't see it as an either/or. I simply find the "You didn't build that" crap offensive as hell.

Here is the deal Tchoup:
In Europe it is likely your family would never have had the opportunity to avail itself of hydrocarbons on your property, because land is owned based on medieval nobility. Your family attained wealth in ways most Europeans would find inconceivable. What you are living is really a uniquely American opportunity.

The composition of the world's richest individuals speaks to that opportunity. It is dominated by Americans. The Walton's inherited theirs as 2nd gens. The rest are new money, new American money.

It is something we take for granted. We shouldn't. The ability of individual Americans to suddenly acquire wealth, either thru good fortune or calculated patience/planning/toil, is the foundational essence of exceptionalism. The ability of a literal bastard, born to an oddball middle-class mother, to become the nation's Chief Executive is the epitome of American Exceptionalism. It is American opportunity manifested. Yet Obama wanted none of that truth. Instead, he attached extrapolated anticolonial jealousy of the father he barely knew to this country.

Until Obama, wealth was something which was a source of pride. Created or inherited, it mattered little, Americans sought it with pride. Enter BHO stage left. Obama inspired and encouraged a Leninesque wealth-envy. Suddenly inherited wealth was a liability, a potential target for state encouraged theft. I have zero patience for that Leninist-Maoist crap.

Anyway, I'd view the above as expressions of Rugged Individualism.

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Homesteader

86% libertarian/14% paranoid nationalist

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Own multiple businesses and an odd RE portfolio

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PimpDaddyHustleStack

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Checks out

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I could more clearly and completely explain my point of view.

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No one give a f*ck about your demented point of view.

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Military

Right of center; but I don't care who you screw, where you piss, if you marry, what you smoke, or who you do or do not prey to. Just leave me alone while you do it.

According to MSM:
1. Too old to matter
2. Medical doctor
3. Extremist fascist totalitarian

According to me:
1. Mid 50s
2. Medical doctor
3. Radical moderate: I believe in low taxes, local control of schools, traffic signals, freedom of opinion even if I disagree with you. I think everyone who wants to vote should be photo’d and fingerprinted. I believe that anyone who will work, be fingerprinted and photographed and pays a special additional tax of 10% of their income for 10 years should be allowed to apply for citizenship.

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But I believe in making some provisions to deal with those
failings or shortcomings of the free market that adversely affect,to an unacceptable degree, our citizens. The market is far from perfect

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Spoken like an Attorney.

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If I wasn’t on my phone, I could more clearly and completely explain my point of view.

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Right.
The devil's in the details of "some provisions", isn't it?
After all, Bernie Sanders could implement his entire agenda under the umbrella of that caveat.

Middle aged.

Competitive Intelligence Professional

Party affiliation is for the sheep. It's all about access to the decision makers. You either have it or you don't. I've always had it (multi-generational political influence) and the older I get, the more I value it.

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Find the rugged individual:

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Someone who endures over decades while continually levering his personal fortune, through both wins and loses, and under intense pressure from a constant flow of competitors/profiteers (not to mention machinations of the 2016 campaign) would have to be considered rugged IMO. You don't think so?