LAUGH, CRY OR VOMIT?

LAUGH, CRY, OR VOMIT?

A story about a couple’s inability to save money, despite a $165,000 annual income, only one teenage son, and living in a low-cost of living area (around Jacksonville, FL), is posted on USA Today.com.

“Spending Contributes to Couple’s Inability to Save”[i] is about a middle-aged couple that squander their money on a lavish mortgage, boat, motorcycle [want to bet it is a Harley –Davidson?] swimming pool and home renovations and then complain that they can’t save money. Oh, and they will not save money for their son to attend college.[ii]

One thing they're not worried about is the cost of [Son’s] college education. They've decided that college expenses shouldn't derail their retirement savings. We basically told him that he can work his way through college," [Mommy, who hopefully is menopausal or sterilized and cannot breed again] He can get loans, he can get a job. That's what makes the world go 'round."

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Your profligate unsustainable world, chick, not the Author’s and the world that should prosper in the 21st century. Also, the Author won’t mention the names of these whining bladder plugs in the article. Oh, and one more thing. The man who can’t manage his own finances makes $100,000 as a senior loan officer at a bank!]

SOME GOOD NEWS

This couple is going to a financial planner and that is the reason they are the subjects of a major media story. Without the fifteen minutes of fame (Would shame be better?) they would suffer their spendthrift ways along with most suburban America. Can they climb out of the debt that their gluttonous ways have created? Who knows? And some of the readers may be asking, who cares?

The couple is a good example of a bad example. The Author, having thrown a case of Ambrose Bierce upon them, hopes they can bring their finances in line. But if they cannot, well, there will surely be a reality show about such folks in ten to fifteen years, over consuming American suburbanites that must provide per-anal care to celebrity invalids such as Keith Richards and Barbara Striesand to win money to supplement their Social Security.

That last crack was a little below the belt. But it’s a cloudy day in Albuquerque.

THERE ARE NO RAINY DAYS IN THE DESERT OF THE REAL. STILL, WE CONSERVE AND SAVE FOR THEM!

[i] http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060522/bs_
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[ii] Family values? These chazzers want to be “missionaries”. "Our plan is to sell the house, buy a big boat or catamaran (in the Caribbean) and do missionary work there," says {nurturing mother], 42. Perhaps there are some offshore banking interests in the Cayman Islands that could benefit from their stalwart counsel.