by Richard A. Cheatham, Press Media Group, LLC

This advice is for young Americans out there who’re eager for success, especially those who define success as making a lot of money and having all sorts of cool things, perhaps even status, power and fame.

Your elders, those who’ve gone before you, have established elaborate systems for success. They’ve blazed lots of trails before you came along. Knowing how those systems work, and working within them, will enable you to have greater success than if you don’t use them.

Here’s the success system your elders have established for you:

Don’t stick your neck out. Adopt the values of your elders as your own and they will promote you. Be your own man or woman and you’ll get a reputation as one who doesn’t play the game, someone who rocks the boat. Copy the methods and values of the movers and shakers in society. Try your best not to listen to your conscience. Let the “leaders” in society define what is right and wrong, good and bad.

Seek out government grants and other advantages funded involuntarily by your peers whose stolen resources can thus be turned to your own advantage. Government force has always been utilized to take from some to benefit others. Another advantage for you when you gobble government goodies is that you appear safe to those in power, for they’ll know they’ve purchased and own you.

Take for your own profit the homes, businesses and other property of private citizens by promising your local government higher tax revenues than the present owners are paying. The Supreme Court says this eminent domain type theft is OK. Who are you to question them?

Always work for someone else. Never work for yourself or start your own business unless you’re politically well-connected and you’re in the pockets of America’s wealthy political elite. People who aren’t dependant upon the favors and subsidies of government power brokers are looked upon as dangerous and as potential threats to the power base of those “leaders.”

Vote for lawmakers who support your personal interests over the interests of other people and for issues in which you can make your opponents conform to your values through the force of law.

If you’re not one of the younger people reading this, rather you’re one who the young look to as an example, this part is for you. You bothered by what you’ve read above? If so perhaps you’d better contemplate your part in creating and/or perpetuating such a corrupt environment for “success.”

Perhaps you’d better consider what types of “success” we encourage in this country. There is a chain of cause and effect. There are consequences to flawed incentives. Our present is a direct result of what has gone before. The rules of the game determine the winners and losers. What kind of future are you creating?

©2006 by Richard A. Cheatham. All rights reserved. Mr.Cheatham is a professional speaker/writer and is syndicated through Press Media Group, LLC. Contact him through, Living History Assoc., Ltd., at www.LHALtd.com or DrawBackVeil@aol.com.