Money money everywhere, but not a drop to drink!

Have you ever sat around your house and thought "The rich get richer, and I am definitely not one of them"! Has that ever bothered you? Has that ever driven you to the point of anger where all you wanted to do is throw on some olive drab, raise a red flag and start propagandising about the rights of the worker? No? Good, cause communist are evil. Really though, do you ever wonder why it just seems by pure luck or birth-right that some people wallow in cash whilst you can only enjoy the sound of two nickles jingling in your pocket? Yes? Good, cause that lack might start spurring on some intelligence.

You see it always seemed to me that their are certain people that are afraid of money. Literally afraid of the greenback. They don't like to talk about it, they don't like to dream about it, they don't like their own dreams cause usually for their dreams to come true it would require money, even a few bucks for the lottery. So they avoid it all together. I would suggest very strongly against that line of thinking. Being in the lack is actually a nice place to be, cause at least at that point you have a reference, a place you like to avoid. "But Matt, what do I do if I'm poor, doesn't it take money to make money? Don't you remember that I'm poor? I don't got it, so I can't get it. You must hate me." No my dear friend, I love you dearly. The honest truth is that you might not think too highly of yourself.

We live in a blessed nation, a place where your own opportunity is only blocked by your own ambition. I actually think that is what the American dream is all about. Not some cynical idea that you got to have a 2.5 kids with a white picket fence and a golden retriever in the yard. That's a nice dream though, but not the American dream. The best thing that you can do for yourself, and your future, and your family, is to educate yourself as much as possible on the matter of economics. Start understanding how money works, how investments work, how to make the little money that you have work for you. Make yourself aware of the markets. Do stocks scare you? Well get to know stock, and educate yourself on it. Does the idea of owning investment property make you a little queasy? Well get a book that tells you how to buy investment real estate. Or start hanging around people that already have this stuff down. "But Matt, it sure is a boring subject". Yeah, but apples are better for you than fun dip. I mean fun dip is great and all, just the name alone lets you in on what to expect. Yet you are going to be in a nutritionally better place if you have a daily dose of an apple. Heck, maybe after awhile you just might start to like it. You might even think fun dip doesn't live up to it's name anymore.

The political and economic situation in this country is a bit tenuous. I would suggest getting yourself edu-macated as quickly as possible. Not just for that, but for your own well being. Let me pass a list on to you:

P.T. Barnum
David Buick (founder, Buick Motors)
Walt Disney
James Folger (founder, Folgers Coffee)
Henry Ford
Conrad Hilton
J.C. Penny
Sam Walton
William Fox (founder, 20th Century Fox Film Corp.)
H.J. Heinz
Frank Lloyd Wright

Now what do all these dudes with some impressive names have in common? At one point, sometimes two, they were all like you. Broke as a joke up in smoke. These guys had no fear of failure, they actually saw the benefit in it. When they were down, the educated themselves, put the right people around them, and kept the learning going.

So don't wither in your ignorance of the so called clam, bone, or cold hard cash. Understand your own understanding, and then increase. I remember some good advice. Turn a profit, and do so regularly. It just depends on your definition of profit.