Don Miller

I opine about real estate, financial markets and economics (and occasionally stupid politicians). Apparently I love typos, I keep doing it.

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@LynAldenContact So at some point gold crashes or GDP skyrockets?

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@JebraFaushay I can't see an Adams Apple.

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@RoKhanna If you believe the federal gov't can do something better then the private sector, you are part of the problem. Congress isn't smart enough to establish rules that work within the boundaries of human nature, greed, fear, morals, etc so that the system works fairly for everyone.

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@CharlesMullins2 Getr done

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@WifeFinance 🤣

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@heyshrutimishra No wonder govt want to tax equity. Get it now before it goes south.

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@EnergyPeddler This whole thing has gotten so stupid.

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@WarClandestine That's pretty brutal indictment...

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@iqrafatma1278 With a zero-turn, it takes me 1.5 hours tops for about 1.25 acres and that's going around 10 small trees and my neighbors garden. They are fast and good. Go for it!!

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

It rhymes...

[Nobody Special @JG_Nuke]

The government is considering buying an equity stake in Ask Jeeves, Pets dot com, and Excite. We’re all gonna be rich.

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@SteveOnSpeed Leverage, cheap leverage courtesy of the Federal Reserve.

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

Will they listen?

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@jonbrooks @DonMiami3 Not at cost.

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Love this!

[Frank Brown @FrankBr05713205]

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@cmspet @alphafox Few understand this.

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@DowdEdward How could you be so far off?!? 🤣

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@alphafox Thats funny!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@ZachRector7 oh boy, I gotta LONG way to go 😳

[Don Miller @RealDonMillerJr]

@Carly_lanlan That would be a nice gain for me. But I'm holding for my teenagers future, unless I die first LOL.