Tom Bussa

A leading business risk expert, you need to also golf, travel and relax.

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Take two minutes to read this note of realization.

[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."

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@CadeNewman17 INI

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@AugieNash Remember him well.

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@OleTimeHardball Forgot to note 3,000 hits

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@brithume God bless him for defending our freedom.

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@DannyDeraney @stephenfhayes I have been to the cemetery and have paid my respects. Glid bless them and thank them for my freedom.

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@Mike_Taylor1972 My families restaurant served Shlitz on tap forever.

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@hochman @dgoold They were great. Make sure Olli gets his contact info. He said he wanted to make sure he is at every game.

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@dgoold when is the next BPIB?

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Great commercial

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@OleTimeHardball Yes

[Jay Costa @JayCostaUSA]

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@OleTimeHardball Yes

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@dgoold Derek. Which weekend will the be inducted.

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What a start for the rookie. Been a while since a Cardinal lead off hitter was playing like this. https://t.co/Jz9AHs4ev3

[Derrick Goold @dgoold]

JJ Wetherholt's first swing in his first at-bat against the reigning Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes is a home run.

#stlcards rookie has an extra-base hit in six consecutive games. He's the third #Cardinals rookie to do that, first since Albert Pujols.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

The U.S. is an absolute energy monster

* Sitting on 46 billion barrels of proved crude reserves (60% still locked in tight rock)

* Permian Basin alone pumps 6.6 million barrels/day, more than every OPEC country except Saudi

* Total U.S. crude: 13.6M barrels/day, the world’s #1 producer, beating Russia (9.1M) and Saudi (9.3M)

* Natural gas? Not even close, record 43.2 trillion cubic feet in 2025, about 25% of global supply.

The U.S. out-produces every petrostate on the planet.

- @hedgeye

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@dgoold He is a very good ball player and person

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@KeithMcCullough To all that hear - we are in the fuck bucket. Take the cash.

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@dgoold Missed you reply. Thank you

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@dgoold it is crazy the the Cardinals have both Yadi and Albert on the Cardinals Hall of Fame Ballot and you can’t vote for both together. You have to vote twice - once for each player. That may be the rules but if they put one in and not the other the fans will scream.