Ted McLyman

Reformed Former Financial Advisor | Money Temperament Consultant | Speaker | Best-Selling Author

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

@Dakota_Meyer Embrace the suck. Semper Fi.

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

@EricLDaugh Embrace the suck. Semper Fi

[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."

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

Stop letting project strategy fail! I highly recommend Nicolas De Dobbeleer and The Project Goldmine. https://t.co/UtE8IWuwHz

They provide the expertise to sharpen execution and turn your projects into gold mines. Many complimentary resources on their site.

#ProjectManagement

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

@MOSSADil Great feed

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

🇰🇼 🇮🇱 Rare moment of truth at the UN from brave Kuwaiti dissident @JJJuraid, invited by UN Watch:

“Mr. Chair,

I heard the term “colonizers.” But who are the real colonizers? A Jewish Kingdom ruled in Judea for a thousand years. We, the Arabs, took this land.

Who Arabized Egyptians, Phoenicians, Persians and Amazighs? It was us, the Arabs.

So why does the council enshrine a lie by keeping a permanent agenda item on Palestine, while ignoring the indigenous heart of Israel returning home?

Let us be clear about who is actually defending our sovereignty. Today, Israel is a fighter for peaceful nations, freeing Gaza from Hamas terrorists and saving Iranians from the Islamic Republic.

What Israel is doing to the IRGC — stopping a genocidal regime from acquiring nuclear weapons — is a gift to humanity.

There are 57 Islamic countries and only one Jewish state, Israel. Despite the ongoing hateful desire to eliminate it, Israel has not only survived, it has thrived.
I don’t believe in miracles, but this is one.

So I ask the UN: when will you end the ritual of condemning Israel?

Is it not time, instead, to learn from Israel? How to defeat terror, defend free societies, and pursue peace.

Thank you.”

What a refreshing act of integrity and truth.

Stay connected, follow @MOSSADil.

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

@simonateba I learned as a Marine officer that mission comes first and outcomes matter. My CO's temperament, style, and methods were subordinate to the mission. Not everyone I served with was a "buddy," but I'd go to war with everyone of them. I'd go to war with this team.

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

@manifestpower4X Yes

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

@otokyo__ Hope

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Why the Somali fraud wasn't called out by more Minnesotans is clear.

They're black immigrants, and critics don't want to be called racist.

As a son of African immigrants, I'll say: Some cultures are incompatible.

Immigrants who won't choose American culture shouldn't be here.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

RE: Fraud in Minnesota

I’m not sure that most Americans understand that in large swathes of humanity, there is no actual concept of “fraud,” particularly fraud against the government. Instead, there is a belief in the virtue of getting away with what you can to help yourself and your tribe.

I spent a lot of my life in the Middle East and Central Asia, working closely with foreign contractors and foreign governments to provide support to American military operations. As a US Army officer with a big checkbook courtesy of Uncle Sam, I can’t really count the sheer number of times I was offered bribes to award a contract, or falsify records to do things like create larger (fake) headcounts at places like dining facilities, or to just simply be on the take for future illegal requests.

Of course I had enough sense to never comply with such requests. Moreover, they were never explicitly structured as “bribes”; instead it was usually along the lines of “Here I have these Rolexes as gifts for you and your wife to show our friendship.” (Unfortunately, too many US officers and NCOs succumbed to this siren song and ended up breaking rocks in Leavenworth.)

The weird thing about this to me was that whenever I turned down such an offering, it was treated as a grave insult. I was the one in the wrong, and not the fraudster trying to bribe me. They considered it rude that I was in their country and refused to accept how things got done. After all, why did I not want to help my tribe by helping their tribe?

Let me repeat: in these cultures, FRAUD IS NOT EVEN A CONCEPT. There is only what helps your tribe.

Such thought processes are so alien to Americans and much of the West. We are raised on the presumption that our institutions are valid, that the rule of law always prevails, and that integrity is universal. We need these presumptions to have working governments and economies, and without those presumptions—without the mental barrier that causes us not to accept outright fraud—our nation would quickly descend into the economic and social hellscape of countries like…. ummm… you know…. SOMALIA!

So when we import people en masse from cultures that accept bribery and fraud as routine, acceptable ways to advance one’s tribe, we should not be surprised that things like the $8 BILLION fraud schemes of the Somali population in Minnesota happen so easily.

Introducing a fraud-based culture based on tribalism into America is like introducing some sort of lethal virus into a population that has no natural immunity. The virus will spread and grow, unchecked, because it is so alien to the host. Similarly, a culture of fraud is anathema to American thinking, and it must be cut out before it consumes the host.

So when you see and hear patriotic Americans decrying what is happening in Minnesota or elsewhere, and when they seek deportation of the offenders, it is not “racism,” it is not “bigotry,” it is not “xenophobia”; instead, it is preserving the American tradition of responsible institutions and national integrity.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🎯

[Ted McLyman @TedMcLyman]

Behavioral Finance for Real Estate Pros: Master Your Money Mindset https://t.co/2vfErqtgnU

[ALPHAWARRIOR @xAlphaWarriorx]

Here’s my message to the seditious six, from a marine combat veteran.

[Art of Writing @ARTofWriting]

You don’t need another budgeting app you need to understand your money behavior. Discover the 5-step system that helps you stop reacting and start thriving financially. BY @TedMcLyman

Available on - https://t.co/898t9vCiyn

[SHOUT my Book @SHOUTmyBook]

Most financial advice fails because it ignores the truth: we’re emotional creatures, not calculators. Learn how to manage money by understanding yourself first. BY @TedMcLyman

Available on - https://t.co/MG2GPuWzoa

[Art of Writing @ARTofWriting]

You don’t need another budgeting app you need to understand your money behavior. Discover the 5-step system that helps you stop reacting and start thriving financially. BY @TedMcLyman

Available on - https://t.co/898t9vCiyn

[SHOUT my Book @SHOUTmyBook]

Most financial advice fails because it ignores the truth: we’re emotional creatures, not calculators. Learn how to manage money by understanding yourself first. BY @TedMcLyman

Available on - https://t.co/MG2GPuWzoa

[Art of Writing @ARTofWriting]

You don’t need another budgeting app you need to understand your money behavior. Discover the 5-step system that helps you stop reacting and start thriving financially. BY @TedMcLyman

Available on - https://t.co/898t9vCiyn

[SHOUT my Book @SHOUTmyBook]

Most financial advice fails because it ignores the truth: we’re emotional creatures, not calculators. Learn how to manage money by understanding yourself first. BY @TedMcLyman

Available on - https://t.co/MG2GPuWzoa