Delftsman

One Rich Story

I was listening to the Sean Hannity radio show while on my way to the pet shop to pick up some much needed supplies when I heard an interview he had with a young man named Farrah Gray.

Mr. Gray is a multimillionaire and has just written a book called "Reallionaire", "Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out", which chronicles his journey in life so far.

Mr. Gray has his own foundation that tries to contribute to literacy programs for children. He is quite an advocate for education, and for private funding to help promote programs that truly help those on the lowest end of the economic ladder.

If I left it at that, I feel certain that one of my Left Side readers would make a comment such as " it's good to see the wealthy help the poor; after all, THEY had all the advantages growing up and they SHOULD try to do something to help those that don't".

Thats the most inspiring part of Mr. Gray's story.

He grew up on Chicago's South Side, in one of the mryiad housing projects. His family was on Public Assistance, and even with that help, they were still so poor that they couldn't afford furniture.

If you listen to the Left, that means that Mr. Gray's only options were to either become a basketball star, or a drug dealer, if he was ever to escape the bonds of poverty. After all, he went to a substandard school, his mother had seven children to take care of, while working three jobs to support them, and of course, being black, "The(racist)System" would NEVER let him have any opportunity to succeed.

Well Mr. Gray proved that with the right attitude, hard work, and a little luck, ANYONE can get rich in America. He started out handing out homemade business cards from his lunch box "brief case" when he was 6, proclaiming himself to be the next "CEO of the 21st Century". He didn't even know what CEO meant, other than it was a business term. By the time he was 14, he had made his first million, and had an office on Wall Street; a venture capitol enterprise geared towards helping other young people try to make THEIR dreams of owning their own business come true.

Mr. Gray is now 20, and has multiplied his net worth many times over from that first million, and is most interested now in helping young kids obtain the educational tools they need to succeed in life, to which end he established the Farrah Gray Foundation, a non-profit funding group that helps fund literacy and other educational programs in areas that just seem to miss out in all the (Liberal) education funding programs that have been tried for the last thirty years, but never seem to reach those that really need it.

A true Horatio Alger story, and one that proves that it's not the "rich" keeping us down and government helping us out of poverty;but our own attitudes stopping us from doing the work necessary to make our dreams come true, and government, far from helping, in many instances seems to be doing it's level best to prevent us from reaching our goals with excessive taxation and over-regulation.

The system we have right now punishes overachievers and rewards those that are content to let the government be their nursemaid. It's time that the people realize that nursemaids are for children that can't fend for themselves, and that you will never reach your goals if you act and behave as a child.

Posted by Delftsman3 at April 19, 2005 01:44 AM