Jeff Greene...you make me sick...

@solarius,

Now DON'T HIT ME but I agree with him.

How many people have internet/iPhones/gadgets/toys that they feel are necessary for todays living?

How many people spend 300 dollars for shoes, but use food stamps at the grocery?

We over-spend. We live in houses we can't afford, we drive cars we can't afford, we are on line all the time (which costs).

Local libraries offer on-line, books, movies, entertainment for free.

Yet no-one visits these goldmines.

We put gold on our teeth, bling around our necks and fingers, and decry the unfairness of our quality of life.

We are a spoiled society.

@solarius,

The difference is that Greene can afford it. He doesn't live above his means. He has money, so he can afford all that comes with it.

I don't live in a cardboard box. I can afford to live in a nice home. I can't afford to live in a mansion. I can't afford a Lexus or a swimming pool.

We all need to live based on what we have.

Not on how we'd LIKE to live, and simply what we want.

I never really did well with someone telling me what to do, my mom at 17 said quit coming home late and chasing girls or get out. I left that night, never went back, didn't speak to her for over a year. When I was married at 23 my grandmother said in no uncertain terms "Whats a matter why don't you have any kids yet, aren't you man enough".
I smiled and walked out and never spoke to her again right up until she died, that was about 12 years. It's probably why I ended up self employed most of my life, so I could tell an overbearing customer to f-off when he needed it. 

Which of course brings me to listening to some rich guy tell me how I should live... It might not be a good idea to have him in the same room with me, like many before him I would let him know where he could put his arrogance. I have spent my life working for people like this guy, taking their money, and the price was always based on their attitude. One in particular had a 15% multiplier in his cost calculations, when his overbearing, arrogant attitude got in the way their was a 15% smile that he had to exceed before I told him the proverbial F-Off, and I had done that more than once. 

The problem in the end isn't the Jeff Greene's of the world, it's the government safety nets that never let you realize the poverty of your mistakes. So when you live above your means, don't want to work, or participate in society like the good dirkgently, of the world, they never learn anything because in the end there is no failure. You can stay home get unemployment for 3 years, and receive programs equal to easily in some states over $15.00 an hour. 

Don't tell me how to live teach me how to live like you do.