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401-keg

For Your Info: If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00 cash.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It’s called the 401-Keg A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found Americans drink, on the average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon. That’s better than most cars on the road today.

Sage Advice

“By and large, 70% to 90% of you wanted something to be done to calm the economy, but you didn’t want $700 billion in new debt to bail out Wall Street. The stock market has had record declines since then. What’s going on? You need to remember that you need to take control of your life. It’s disturbing that people in government totally disregard what the people tell them to do. It’s disturbing that the market goes down and the media panics about this. It’s disturbing that greedy banks made loans to people who couldn’t afford to repay, and people signed up for the trip when they couldn’t afford it. It’s disturbing that Washington ignores its constituents and takes huge strides toward socialism. All of these things are disturbing, but none will cause this great nation to cease to function. They are not the beginning of the end. But the most disturbing thing is some people’s reactions. Don’t react based on fear or panic. Another negative reaction is that you are looking to Washington to fix your problems. They have never fixed your problems, and you want Obama or McCain to fix things. There has never been a president who can fix your problems. They always say they can and they never can. YOU are in charge of your destiny. YOU are in charge of your life. When you look to Washington to solve your problems, we’ve got the seeds to destroy this country. It’s time for you to change your life. It’s not Washington’s job to fix what’s going on with you. If you are waiting on Washington to change something, you’ve got a very long wait! It is YOUR job to take care of you. Don’t sit around and watch TV and panic and think you can’t do anything. I’ve made and lost money, and every bit of that had to do with me being smart and diligent or stupid. Quit blaming Congress or looking to them to fix you. YOU have to fix you! When you wait on the government to fix your life and wait for money to be taken from others and given to you, that’s a spirit of envy. The only system that works is capitalism functioning under moral restraint.”

- Unknown (via my sister)

Mohangic

I was walking outside and I jumped into my sandbox and I noticed I wasn’t home. I was at Mohangic. A big magic place. A castle was put there last year and I saw I wasn’t alone. A beautiful unicorn was standing in front of me. A beautiful saddle was placed on her back. Suddenly, I felt hungry but I didn’t dare ask. A strange bird floated to the ground. It’s big, beautiful eyes seemed to sparkle. I walked closer and put out my hand. It came closer, it reared. I hopped on the unicorn. She started to canter. Finally, she stopped. I got of. A beautiful horse with wings was standing in front of me. I get on cautiously. It’s wings flap. It gets higher and higher. Suddendly I saw the strange bird again. It gave me nuts and a tin cup of water. We stop by a palace and suddenly strange men appear. They have horse legs and body and men chests and faces. I flew back on and we flew to a place I haven’t seen before. I stepped down and got in and I was in my sandbox. I still was terrified though. I ate dinner as soon as I came in the house.

The End.

story from my daughter when she was 7