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This time I stood in a line and there was a crazy lady standing right behind me.
I mean literally crazy—screaming, talking at the top of her lungs.
Now, we’re in a police station basically—there are DPS officers all around—and no one would stop her.
The people behind the counters working for DPS were kind of snickering and laughing at her.
45 Lessons
Well, my friends, I had a very interesting morning. I want to tell you about it. But what really is interesting is that someone sent me an email today that I thought was really poignant for the way my life went this morning. So I want to just go ahead and dig into this thing here.
The email is about all of the things—and I guess let’s see how many things there are. There’s 45 things that I’ve learned in life over my past 70 years—very interesting list of things most of which I agree, some of which don’t, but there’s a lot of concepts here.
And what I’ve been trying to teach ever since I got on the radio was that it’s really not about whether you are a real estate investor or whether you trade stocks or you’re a bond guy, it’s really all about understanding money. It’s really all about understanding life. And my saying that everybody hates, “It’s not the money; it’s the lifestyle” and everybody goes, “That’s crazy. It really is the money,” but no, it really isn’t. It really is the lifestyle.
Choosing the Lifestyle
And the lifestyle is something that you choose. You make a conscious choice of how you want to live your life. That can’t be done by anybody else. You can be told what to do, but you don’t have to do it. You can be pushed around. You can be cajoled. You can even be outlawed, you can move to a different country. You can do whatever you want to do.
The bottom line is your life is filled with choices. The most important choice is how you relate to the world each day. The stuff that comes at you, how do you take it? Do you let it come into your life and destroy your life, or do you just put it back out there and go you know what, that’s the world. That can’t stick to me. The world can’t stick to me.
The world has nothing to do with me, and the world has everything to do with me. I’m of the world. I’m just particles; I’m just molecules. I’m just, you know, spinning around in space 99 percent nothing where my energies and existence and knowledge and information come together to be this being, which has no lasting power on this earth whatsoever. I’ll be gone in a blink of the eye in comparison to this whole world, so I’m really nothing. I’m everything of this world; I’m nothing of this world.
Useless
And so there’s really no relevance at all talking about this because it’s useless. Except at the same time life is the most wonderful thing in the world—especially as we know it—and to let that life become miserable is a terrible thing.
Well, today I had to go down and renew my driver’s license. And I have to tell you that if you are not afraid of the government becoming in charge of your health care, then you need to go down to DPS and renew your driver’s license—or attempt to renew your driver’s license. And you will come in contact with the most frightening thing in the entire world: The U.S. government in charge of something. My gosh. What a scary thought.
You know, you walk in there, you’ve got to find the place, first of all, you know—that’s one thing. There’s going to be scarcity, and there’s massive scarcity. And you walk in and get in line for information. Yes, to get information. Now, when you get to the end of the line, there are things explaining what you need to do to get into another line.
Lines
And one of the things that I didn’t do was I had brought a credit card. I didn’t know they wouldn’t take credit cards. They wanted cash or checks. So I had to run back out to my car and bring my checkbook in and go stand in another line.
This time I stood in a line and there was a crazy lady standing right behind me. I mean literally crazy—screaming, talking at the top of her lungs. Now, we’re in a police station basically—there are DPS officers all around—and no one would stop her. The people behind the counters working for DPS were kind of snickering and laughing at her.
But this lady was screaming and yelling at everybody, walking up and down the line, talking to people about nothing and—all the way across the room talking to people. Just insane. Everybody there was just nervous about it. You could see it. But they wouldn’t do anything about it. But I think she was drunk as can be, myself. I can’t tell. Was just crazy.
The Normal Span
Then you look around and you’re standing in a line with people where when you come to someplace like Lifestyles—which is one of the few places that I frequent—or you go out to a nice restaurant where I would go, or just about anyplace else, the people all kind of look normal. But I’ll tell you what they’re not. The places I go and the things I do, the people there, the accumulation and diversity are not the normal span of our society.
This is one of the reasons I believe that people in their ivory tower democrats can go out there and put into place laws that don’t affect them ‘cause they’re not going to be down there dealing with all this craziness. They’re going to go to their own private health care place.
But I’m telling you what, you look around—this was 90 percent people that were below the poverty level. If they’re not, they dress that way, they act that way, their haircut is that way, they look that way, they smell that way.
Frightening
I mean I don’t know how you get that many people that look that bad, that impoverished—now, I’m not saying I’m a handsome guy. Don’t get me wrong. This is not about being cute. This is about whatever you look like let’s make yourself look as bad as you possibly can type thing to go in public. Oh, my God. It was frightening. I was scared just being there, to be honest with you.
And so I stood in line to get up to take the eyeglasses thing, and there’s a guy sitting there that comes in to try to get his thing. And he’s some kind of foreign nationality, and he has a hard time communicating with the lady. And she says, “Do you have your green card,” and whatever it was, and I don’t know what he was.
And he went to look in the thing and the guy can’t see. He couldn’t read the thing—the testing machine—and the lady goes, “Can’t you read that?” And he goes, “No.” This guy was trying to get a driver’s license and he was almost blind. Oh, my gosh. It’s scary.
Just Scary
Another guy was there was like 90 years old. He couldn’t even hear the lady. She was talking to him and she was asking him for his stuff, and he goes, “No.” And he pulls his driver’s license out, and he’s got three years left on his driver’s license. He’s basically senile. And the lady goes, “You don’t need to renew it.” He goes, “No. I have to renew it. They sent me a letter.” Oh, my God. It’s just scary.
If you’ve got questions about real estate, please call ‘cause I’m going to go on with this because this is just the most frightening thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life and this is the precursor to Obamacare.