Re: Consciously Frugal: What to Do When It Gets Scary

 On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:49:17 -0700 (PDT), meow2222@care2.com wrote:

(snip frugal advice everyone should have known about all their lives)


You'd be amazed at how many people don't have a clue about how to run
their economic lives. I would say the majority of Americans cannot
balance a checkbook.

I'm continually shocked by companies I interview for who are so messed
up. These are BIG companies who don't have a clue what they make (or
service), who their customers are, what their income stream is, etc..

That's why we have BUBBLES! Americans love their BUBBLES! BUBBLES
aren't real and require no fiscal responsibility!
YAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Where's my Obama job?"
-N
http://iguessineedajob.wordpress.com/

  Napoleon wrote

economic lives.

Nope, I've seen too much of it to be even surprised, let alone amazed.


Correct, but there isnt a lot of point in doing that. The only thing
I have ever got from that is to have noticed that very occasionally
someone hasnt bothered to cash a check I have written, even
when I know that they have certainly received it.

I've never found that the bank has ever made other than a trivial error and
I have found those by scanning the statement, not balancing the checkbook.


And are so stupid that they cant grasp that if they are continually deperately
short
of cash, they must be charging too little for what they flog to cover their
overheads.

BUT, those that are that stupid wont stop being that stupid
when they read an article like the one being commented on.


Nope, they happen for completely different reasons. Fools who
are so stupid that they cant grasp that bubbles ALWAYS burst.


So does the entire first and second world. The third world just
doesnt have the financial recources to get involved in them.


You dont qualify, you didnt buy the line about REAL CHANGE.