Comments on: What is Your Manifest Destiny?

By: Kitty_Incarnate

Kitty_Incarnate — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:44:38 +0000

To pay off the rest of husband’s student loans. It’s a huge undertaking and I find myself comsumed each month with the desire to find every spare penny to throw at it.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:19:20 +0000

I would like to work on my own one day. Working at a day job is just not for me. I would like to make my own hours and spend as much time with my family ( especially when I have kids ).

By: TStrump

TStrump — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:34:08 +0000

At any given time, I used to have a whole list of goals that I wanted to accomplish. The problem was, I got nothing done.
So recently, I had to pair them down and now I only focus on a few at a time.
My ONE goal would be financial freedom, which would probably include lots of little goals.

By: Shock

Shock — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:02:15 +0000

It’s to save a few more months’ worth of expenses in an emergency fund. It’s the only financial goal I’ve yet to obtain.

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:11:08 +0000

Thank you Arvin for describing just what I was thinking the minute I noted the article title.

By: Arvin

Arvin — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:55:22 +0000

I’d like you to try to explain to me how the economics of star trek work at all, when there are replicators that make you anything out of nothingness, when 90% of the action takes place inside a government vessel (I don’t think debt is a topic of ongoing conflict onboard an aircraft carrier), and when most people wear the same style jumpsuits

By: ManVsDebt

ManVsDebt — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:57:00 +0000

To eliminate debt. Period

By: eh438

eh438 — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:32:55 +0000

Of late I have begun wondering if schools, parents, groups, will ever start teaching the young ones in their charge how much debt they can(not!) afford. Yes, the old-but-valuable “live below your means” saying. Imagine all the psychic energy the next generations would save if they didn’t have to dedicate YEARS to getting out of debt. (My friends and I always thought that Start Trek: The Next Generation was a good example of debtlessness.)

By: the weakonomist

the weakonomist — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:21:52 +0000

My manifest destiny is to learn the ways of the Jedi.

Actually I don’t have a singular driving force (no pun) in my life. I have many goals I’m working towards, but I don’t focus on one as a primary. I look forward to seeing what others say.

By: Arvin

Arvin — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:50:32 +0000

Uh, I understand what the article is going for, but maybe it could’ve not used for its inspiration the term that the US government used to justify the sustained brutal conquest of indigenous lands and the extermination of countless peoples, all because as the country began producing more product than it could consume it needed to create new markets.

Even worse, much of the justification they used was for the “christianization” of “savage” peoples.