Not all of us had the chance to travel to Omaha for the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting. It’s a great time to sit and listen to the master, Warren Buffett, give his updated philosophy.
My dear friends, Sandi and Kieth Cunningham did however. They shared some great notes with me and I will pass them along now with some of my thoughts intertwined.
I imagine that all of you are paying taxes today. You are rapidly becoming a minority and not because you chose to be. You are among the productive and not one of the moochers. I’m sure you know that we are rapidly reaching the point where more are receiving from the government than those paying to. It’s a scary place to be in a democratic country. I suppose we should be thankful we are still a republic.
A lot of you will be expressing this dissatisfaction at a Tea Party rally today. When you go, carry a sign expressing your view.
Here is a little something to get you into the mood.
As I frequently promote in my Leriot System, we must constantly assess the enter situation and do our best to make sense of it, make the appropriate adjustments and improve our outcomes.
The recent economic debacle in the U.S. and elsewhere coupled with the recent congressional results reminds me of the arguments I loved to have with my Economics professors at the University of Washington. They were teaching the simple notion of supply and demand and how government policies were used to provide various incentives and disincentives for the public good. I insisted government simply interfered with the natural order of things usually with awful results. I “knew” they were communists and I now know I was a libertarian at heart.
I wrote about the importance of writing your personal vision a short time ago. While having a vision is an important step to take, progress towards it is vital. Here is a fine example of someone’s:
Note, that is is theirs not yours. You have to have something unique to you.
I wrote the other day about intestinal fortitude. It’s the sort of thing one needs when executing a decision about something unpopular, untried, life changing for someone, or simply politically incorrect. Incidentally, making the decision is not much trouble, it’s the action taken after the decision that’s troubling. Most of us do not put our lives in danger when we do.
I became aware of the incredibly brave action taken by Mosab Hassan Yousef. He’s a Palestinian who also happens to be the son of the founder of Hamas. He was being groomed to succeed his father and was within the inner circle of information about the workings of the terrorist group. He tells of a chance meeting he had with a British tourist who introduced him to Christianity.
