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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] It depends on whose ox is being gored.
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:44:40 -0700


On Oct 16, 2008, at 12:44 PM, bob ford wrote:

That is the system, and it isn't right when people who played by the rules of that system are screwd over by people who cheated

Bob, I would say that is the norm, not a system that is imposed. If a young man works, saves, and buys a cheap vehicle, if he keeps his zipper zipped, if he chooses a wife carefully, then they will have a paid-for car and a very modest house with very modest payments before they have children.

Personal financial security comes less from how much you make than from how much you spend, and on what.





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