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Re: OdeO,
What about when you fall over a garden hose in your front yard and have to go to emergency with a broken arm?

posted by Jack_Flash on June 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM | link to this | reply

I made a budget, I stay in the budget, I worry not about the rest. 

posted by OdeO on June 10, 2009 at 7:30 PM | link to this | reply

Re: troosha

Credit is really the problem.  Banks want you to charge things on their credit cards
because that is where they make their money.  They want you to think of a credit card
as cash and use it like cash.  That way the Big Shots get 24% interest rates for the banks,
Big Checks for themselves, and bank sponsored ''Big Deal Business Meetings'' in the charming Bahamas.

It all comes back to greed.  Those who lucked into Big Shot positions take barrels of money.
Those without such luck scrape the bottom of the well with rusty coffee cans.

posted by Jack_Flash on June 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM | link to this | reply

Re: texture,

I have studied a good deal of economics myself,
but I have found the secret to not overspending is only confused by such complexities.

Think of spending as running a bath.  If you don't keep an eye
on the level of the water, the tub will run over.

posted by Jack_Flash on June 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM | link to this | reply

Re: BC-A

In the modern world big business is inevitable.  Where would we be without Microsoft?
The Internet, which will hopefully mature to a more sensible thing,
may not be perfect, but on a windy day smoke signals are quite inadequate.
Cheaper, to be sure, but line-of-sight communication went out long ago.

Not that big business is always good, but the thing that screws it up is human greed.

posted by Jack_Flash on June 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM | link to this | reply

Re: 9star,
In some professions a cell phone is a necessity.
When they are nothing more than an expensive gadget/toy
to show off with, it becomes quite another matter.

posted by Jack_Flash on June 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Very nice...

It is nice to see people having a big time being cool, but when being cool
takes precedence over impending foreclosure and banruptcy things get a little weird.

It isn't a problem for Big Shots.  They just get a bailout check that we pay for.
But what about us normal people?

posted by Jack_Flash on June 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Azur

I was waiting in the med lab's lobby for two hours the other day for a simple pee test.
Some doctor had left his copy of a yacht magazine on the counter
and I went through it for about 30 minutes looking at yachts that cost
four to six times what my house is worth.

Still waiting, more than a little bored, the guy next to me started playing with his IPOD and showing me what it would do.
It was quite entertaining how he had downloaded his brain onto the thing,
but when I asked him what it cost to buy it and have a monthly ATT hookup for it, I decided to look at some more yacht pictures.

posted by Jack_Flash on June 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM | link to this | reply

Jack
Spending beyond one’s means – that drives me nuts.  And then people moan and groan about how much debt they have.  Well… duh! 

posted by Troosha on June 10, 2009 at 11:14 AM | link to this | reply

I have an Econimics degree. I still can't tell you why I keep spending more than I have.

posted by texture on June 10, 2009 at 6:39 AM | link to this | reply

you now, I can't live without a phone.......
so I can't argue right here........hahaha.......

posted by Star5_ on June 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM | link to this | reply

Tuesday

Afternoon

Post I long for the good old days of prices without big business middlemen. BCA, BillJRoost

posted by BC-A on June 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM | link to this | reply

Very nice...

posted by Kayzzaman on June 9, 2009 at 4:46 AM | link to this | reply

Goodness me
Welcome to my world. Now I just need to update the iPhone

posted by Azur on June 9, 2009 at 3:22 AM | link to this | reply