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Ripped and Rich: Why MAGA and Everyone Else Needs More MAMA

The degradation of our morals and culture, and the unethical behavior in government, just go on and on.
Ripped and Rich: Why MAGA and Everyone Else Needs More MAMA
People cross a street in New York City on April 4, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Jeff Minick
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Two months ago, a teenage granddaughter informed me in all seriousness that she has but two goals in life: to get ripped and to get rich. The alliteration of ripped and rich appeals to the ear, but those materialistic ambitions by themselves are shabby and second-rate. She’s a good kid, and odds are that as she matures, she’ll find higher markers for a life well lived.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.