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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

It's a Community Composed of Ordinary People...Not a Kingdom Filled with Royalty

Reality check time ! 


A recent vestibule in Anthem Center was completed that cost us $75,000 !

...and it was rather disturbing in the manner in which the cost was justified amongst those in our community that are of the belief that money is spent  "like a drunken sailor".

....that spending less on an alternative option costing $8,000 for an air curtain, is "beneath" our standards...because we are a community that shouldn't bother with such trivial things when our "reputation" is at stake.

... that it would have forced certain status conscious members of our community to remove their raised noses from the clouds and breathe the same air that the rest of the peasant population is forced to endure ! 

...and that line of thought...

... is typical of something that most RESPONSIBLE people despise...

BIG GOVERNMENT

...government that spends money for one reason....

...because they have it to spend...

...rather than having a need for something to spend it on !

It's time to look in the mirror and realize a very important fact about seniors....

WE'RE PEOPLE LIKE EVERYONE ELSE...

...that we are NOT ENTITLED to anything other than what we put into this earth while making an attempt to make it a better place.

...that living in a community where most homes ranging in the $200,000 to $250,000 price category exist in a non-gated community...

... is not SHAGRILA...

...that it's middle class America !

...that an OVERWHELMING PERCENTAGE of Sun City Anthem residents are just "middle of the roaders" who were looking for a well maintained area in which to live out the rest of our lives....in peace...without poverty !

...not some "look at me" community where people who live outside it, look at us.. NOT WITH ENVY...

....but as "those seniors who have champagne tastes on beer budgets".

And believe me...I get out of here OFTEN enough to hear those words, not like some whose lives revolve around spending every waking moment walking around a large building, dinng at the same overpriced eatery, and believing they represent "the people".

There was a frightening set of statistics made public recently.....that in excess of 38% of seniors have less than $1,000 in a savings account...

...yet amazingly....

Still believe they are going to retire !

How is that possible?

In their minds...

ONE WAY

... by believing they are "entitled" to it !

...that the federal government is supposed to provide those "wants"...despite neither having the funds to do so.

I spoke with an anonymous individual recently, who, at the age of 71, refinanced a home OVER 30 YEARS....that the attitude was...

...not a big deal, when I die, who cares what I owe?

WHO CARES WHAT I OWE WHEN I DIE?

How disgusting, I thought...and yet this attitude is becoming more and more prevalent in our society as the years pass.

What if OUR ANCESTORS would have thought that way...especially ones like mine who arrived in Ellis Island in the 1920s ?

So who is going to pay that debt?

OUR KIDS, THEIR KIDS, and THEIR KIDS.

And whose fault is this attitude?

OURS...THE ENTITLED GENERATION...

...THE ONES WHO TOOK THE PRINCIPLES INSTILLED IN US BY HARD WORKING PARENTS AND ANCESTORS....

....and those who have adopted this belief of "entitlement"....who have DESTROYED THEM in their "you owe me" attitudes !

That $75,000 for a vestibule is a perfect example of the waste that is now part of the ENTITLED GENERATION'S WAY OF THINKING.

A substantial number of people DO NOT USE the Anthem Center, and a simple SWEATER could have solved a problem...

...but...

... those who "keep their noses high enough in the air"....decided to spend $75,000 of an entire community's funds in order for a FEW to avoid having to buy that sweater.

...spending money based on  CARELESS WANT...not NEED.

Ever look at "self-made" people and the way they spend money?  They do so a lot differently than those who have been part of a system that has cared for them their entire working lives....

...they VALUE IT, and unlike so many others who criticize them for their wealth....REALIZE that there are NO GUARANTEES as to TOMORROW....

Whereas $1,100 in annual dues is looked upon by many as modest...perhaps knowing that sum PAID IN A SINGLE YEAR....exceeds the TOTAL SAVINGS of 38% of Americans wishing to retire...

...places all of this in its proper perspective.

...and that the values of our parents and ancestors  MUST BE PRESERVED, or,  in the words of Abraham Lincoln..
.
..this nation will "perish from this earth".

2 comments:

  1. From Resident....Vegas Val...to Anthem Opinions

    Your article today in Anthem Opinions was so “right on” that you are to be commended for adding sanity and what is right into the minds of those who feel that they are “owed” whatever it is they want!

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  2. From Resident Patsy McCarthy...to...Anthem Opinions

    Really good posting today. I couldn't agree more.

    I had to go over to the Spa this morning to pick up a gift certificate for my sister's birthday. This is the first time I have seen the new vestibule. Frankly, I can't believe it took $75,000 to build the thing! What a waste of our money just because a small number of people don't have the sense to bring a jacket or sweater during the few month of cooler weather. What do they wear from the house to the car and the car to the center????

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