Rich Dad, Poor Cardinal Squirrel
Nobody Knows—
That I went to a “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” seminar with my friend Pattie, and the rich guy who wrote the book, (Robert Kiyusaki) decided that showing up for just thirty people was waste of his time. So he sent another fellow to convince the whole crowd that…JUST TODAY, we could purchase an educational three-day program that cost $998 dollars for ONLY…$199! Before the end of the hour he said we could even bring a friend for free!
That was his first mistake. Also, about half way through he was getting very noticeably madder and LOUDER, because many of us were kind of …smirking.
He went on for a whole ninety minutes trying to tell us that we could take a “hard loan” off the internet (no credit needed) and go out, find some property cheap,fix it up…and sell it! That is how rich people get rich!
Well, I’m sure.
It’s also how Fannie and Freddie got their big name. He made it sound like people are just out there WAITING in line to buy your house. Or rent your house. What he failed to mention is sometimes, when they default they have a whole YEAR before you can kick them out…espescially if they are in the well protected class of color..ful.
The REAL rich guy, who now gets rich off of selling people three-day training programs, is doing a book tour with Donald Trump.
Oh, you were not really allowed to ask questions. So, if you have ever been to one of these things, let me say this: you have NEVER been to one as absurd as this one…and so to honor the really squirrely day we had, it seems all was not lost. 
St. Louis has adopted the “squirrel” to be the Cardinal Mascot for the National League Baseball Playoffs, because some squirrel ran across the field recently and everyone fell in love with him.
And that’s what that salesman needed to pitch his big educational program. Next time I suggest: he let a few live squirrels, run around the room. Poor guy. My friend and I couldn’t figure out, why, if this guy had made so much money off of this program, why was he so obviously upset when no one was buying?
I mean, what was he doing there? He had five restaurants to run.
I mean, how squirrely to you have to be to think that one minute the program is $1,000, and the next second..$200? And then…$100.00
We decided that if we wanted to learn about real estate we go to the local community college and take a $35 dollar course.
Not that we want to, because we don’t. And that’s why that guy hated us all. Right now, I need a squirrel hug….and a World Series Ticket.
And as my husband always says: “People in hell want ice water.”
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
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I think so. Very good post, glad I found this.
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Thanks for this post regards 😉 I share on facebook
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Hahahahahahaha.
You give an example of a modern phenomenon that is just a step in time away from ‘Dr Good and his Travelling Gopher Oil Elixir Show’. No doubt, like the ‘Professors’ who came before him professing their cheek-in-tongue beliefs, your Robert Kiyusaki stand-in had a bottle or two of someone else’s brew back in his grubby rooms. He carries on the tradition of trying to make folks part with their money today to pay for last night’s drinking-to-oblivion.
Squirrel your nuts away rather than trust them to an ‘educational program’ run by shysters. And continue to post your warnings to others. I will raise a glass of ice-water to your astute chap.
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