>>>>Just scrapping by with $200K are you? Working on your autobiography?
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>>>>When you are getting close to 60 and planning for retirement, it isn't. When you have kids you are trying to put through college it isn't.
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>>>I suppose that is one way to look at it.
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>>>Another way is that sometimes when you spend a lot, you have a lot less than what you started with. But it doesn't change the fact that you started out with a statistically above average amount.
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>>My dad used to tell me, "it ain't how much you make, it's how much you keep". How true, if you spend your money like a drunken democrat, you'll be out of money, and wanting to spread other people's wealth around yourself.
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>Given the last 8 years, shouldn't that be "spend your money like a republican without a brain"? Bush spend much more money than any president before. And he was supposed to be a "fiscal conservative". It really is beyond me that such myths still are going arround while the evidence clearly is the opposite.
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>Wake up John.

Wake up Walter. Don't fight with obsessions and biases...