One of the best biographies I ever done read is Dan Kennedy\u2019s:<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Unfinished Business\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The part I liked best?<\/p>\n
A chapter on why he thinks if you\u2019re in America, now\u2019s the time to make whatever money you\u2019re going to make. And the reason why is, the unsustainable levels of debt, spending, entitlements, liabilities, etc our politicians have been kicking down the road each election is eventually going to create a huge problem simply printing more money won\u2019t solve.<\/p>\n
As Mr. Kennedy put it:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe race is on to get out of the game before the rules become so unfair that you cannot possibly win\u2026Have the home you live in paid off. Have enough cash to last your lifetime if all you do is eat principal, so there\u2019s no income to be taxed at all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sobering words indeed for a New Years party night.<\/p>\n
But, they are also words of wisdom from a man who has fought everyone from multiple bankruptcies, to insanely corrupt government bureaucrats to, so far… even Death itself.<\/p>\n
Ignore them at your peril.<\/p>\n
Especially if you think you will be \u201cexempt\u201d from it all \u2014 because you won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n
Point is, make your money and get taxed on it now.<\/p>\n
Before it shoots up to God-knows-how-high it will have to go in the very near future.<\/p>\n
This is especially \u2014 and let’s face it, nobody deserves it more \u2014 going to hit class warfare artists preaching \u201ctax & spend!\u201d the hardest, I am predicting. It always has during such times, after all. Including people who thought they were somehow protected from the fruits of their own agendas they want pushed only on others.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll give two real life examples of this.<\/p>\n
First is the late publisher William Randolph Hearst.<\/p>\n
Nobody preached being \u201cprogressive\u201d as much as him.<\/p>\n
In his biography \u201cThe Chief\u201d there is an especially amusing example of how his class warfare antics to sell his papers threatened to come back and take a big, wet bite out of his empire.<\/p>\n
Here is a quote from the book to show what I mean:<\/p>\n
\u201cAll his life, Hearst had advocated government regulation\u2026But he never imagined that such regulation would ever be extended to\u2026newspaper publishing, which he believed was explicitly protected by the First Amendment. He was not only astounded then, but outraged\u2026that [FDR’s adminstration] expected the newspaper publishers to draw up their own industry-wide code, with regulation on minimum wages and maximum hours.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Suddenly, his own employees wanted to unionize, etc.<\/p>\n
Something he was all for, when it applied to other industries.<\/p>\n
Just not his own…<\/p>\n
Ah, the sweet smell of hypocrisy never ceases to be pleasing to elBenbo’s righteous nostrils.<\/p>\n
Amusing stuff, indeed.<\/p>\n
Just as I am finding a more contemporary example of this phenomenon amusing. Specifically, a push by the tax & spend politicians who want to alter the social security taxes laws in a way that will dramatically reduce the paychecks & severely punish the way of life – with the stroke of a pen – of the very professional occupations (like teachers, professors, journalists, so-called life coaches, etc) whose ranks are mostly filled with virtue signaling \u201ctax the rich!\u201d types.<\/p>\n
Anyway, those are just a couple examples of this.<\/p>\n
The law of unintended consequences always hits the very people who want to push their nonsense on others, while exempting themselves, the hardest, and rightfully so.<\/p>\n
Such is the fate of all useful idiots…<\/p>\n
Thus the two reasons for bringing all this up:<\/p>\n
First, as a nice little taste of what to expect eventually.<\/p>\n
Dan Kennedy\u2019s advice is more real now than when he wrote his book. Make your money, now, as fast as you can now, as later it\u2019s going to get a helluva lot more expensive to make it. And especially seek professional advice on how to better weather this now, well in advance.<\/p>\n
Secondly, to tease the January \u201cEmail Players\u201d issue.<\/p>\n
The deadline to get it is today.<\/p>\n
And, it includes a bonus elBenbo\u2019s Lair insert making the case for why I think we actually have much bigger problems than mere taxation. And, in fact, I don\u2019t believe the US will even exist in its current form past another 2-3 election cycles. And I not only talk about this in detail in that bonus insert, but give some other dire predictions about it, as well as some more warnings.<\/p>\n
Of course, maybe everything I predict will turn out to be false.<\/p>\n
And, maybe life will go on as it always has.<\/p>\n
People have, after all, been predicting this sort of thing for 100+ years now. But, the exact \u201cperfect storm\u201d of socioeconomic, cultural, ideological, political, moral, and other unique factors at play is pretty compelling.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I don\u2019t really give any answers or solutions.<\/p>\n
But, I do think I make a decent case for the problem.<\/p>\n
What you do with that info is up to you\u2026<\/p>\n
Whatever the case, whatever happens, the ability to sell, market, and persuade will be always be valuable and, in my opinion, necessary in the coming months and years and decades regardless of what happens.<\/p>\n
Thus, the secret copywriting technique the January issue teaches.<\/p>\n
It is not only extremely effective today, but I believe as people get more weary of marketing, and quicker to discard, and more likely to have contempt for those trying to sell them anything\u2026 this info will be vital.<\/p>\n
The deadline to get this issue is in mere hours.<\/p>\n
After that, you won\u2019t be able to get it, as I shut stragglers out.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the link:<\/p>\n