Is the "American Dream" dead? Some look to greener pastures outside the US!

[gooddad409]

@Smyrna

I think many Americans are having a hard time observing this nation evolve into a liberalized insane asylum. I have too much riding going forward and am going to stay and fight hard by demonstrating traditional American values. My happiness vs their empty sadness searching for happiness will be the best evidence as to which way is the right way. I have grandchildren I want to observe finding their happiness by witnessing their grandmother and I and our choices in life.

[TheRedComet]

I’ve always wanted to go since I read the description of it in the first Jurassic Park book. It’s like the perfect combination of temperate jungle with beautiful beaches.

[WuWei]

Gambling addiction “owners” don’t actually “own” the horse. It would be more accurate to say you had “shares” in an abused animal.

Don’t ever compare yourself to an actual horseman or horsewoman.

[WuWei]

@Guilds

@TheRedComet

It’s Latin American. Spanish is the official language there. It’s located in Central America.

Yup, I have been there. Great vacation…

You’ve been to a hotel there. Go inside.

[Imel]

I get your distaste but race horses are far from abused and treated like royalty.
People gamble on all sports.

[WuWei]

Who told you that?

[biggestal99]

@WuWei

Gambling addiction “owners” don’t actually “own” the horse. It would be more accurate to say you had “shares” in an abused animal.

Don’t ever compare yourself to an actual horseman or horsewoman.

no need for quotation marks. i actually have owned flesh and blood racehorses. did not abuse them in any way. and retired them to a second career when they became too old, or were injured or were too slow. ethical racehorse ownership 101.

Allan

[biggestal99]

@Imel

I get your distaste but race horses are far from abused and treated like royalty.
People gamble on all sports.

a quick trip to the Kentucky Horse park in Lexington would dispel the myth.

i will concede that some owners are not ethical but the vast majority are and actually like and cherish horses.

Allan

[FreeAndClear]

@biggestal99

@Imel

I get your distaste but race horses are far from abused and treated like royalty.
People gamble on all sports.

a quick trip to the Kentucky Horse park in Lexington would dispel the myth.

i will concede that some owners are not ethical but the vast majority are and actually like and cherish horses.

Allan

How many horses were injured or died at specific grounds?

Santa Anita? Churchill downs?

Yeah it’s animal abuse.

Cherishing at ownership is one thing. Racing is a whole other issue.

[biggestal99]

@FreeAndClear

How many horses were injured or died at specific grounds?

hisa (the feds who control horse racing just issued a report) just released their report

horse fatalities were down in 2023.

Allan

[TheRedComet]

1 is far too many. For something that isn’t a necessity and is work a horse shouldn’t be doing.

[rp5x5]

@SixFoot

We’ve weighed a lot of options for our retirement plan, and ended up deciding on a 42 foot sailboat. I’ll be 55 when we set out for the open blue life. That gives us a solid 20-30 years worth of adventures at sea. Y’all can eat cricket protein isolates while we spear fresh lobster out of the Caribbean.

Last person I knew who said that in younger years was John McAfee.

[Axxowiz]

For the majority of younger people it’s dead, if the current housing market and inflation is the new normal.

[rp5x5]

@FreeAndClear

Cherishing at ownership is one thing. Racing is a whole other issue.

Horses have karma too. Even horses take pride in winning. Like all creatures they chose to do it.

[Publius]

Jimmy Buffett would advise sunscreen.

[biggestal99]

@TheRedComet

1 is far too many. For something that isn’t a necessity and is work a horse shouldn’t be doing.

horses are born to run. what is not natural is running in circles.

horse racing is good. we just disagree.

Allan

[SixFoot]

I’ll bet. lol

[WuWei]

"We killed fewer horse to get our gambling fix. Yeah us!

[WuWei]

@rp5x5

@FreeAndClear

Cherishing at ownership is one thing. Racing is a whole other issue.

Horses have karma too. Even horses take pride in winning. Like all creatures they chose to do it.

What!!!

[WuWei]

Horse racing is animal cruelty to feed a gambling addiction.