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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >****** So, if someone whose husband pay's child support loses his job will 
> not have much effect?, or someone whose husband works for a Ford delaership 
> not much effect? or someone whose outside work is with a state agency not 
> be 
> affected?  

Bob, we keep hearing from you how the wealthy will be fine in all this and 
you are only concerned about the poor and downtrodden who will be effected.  
Of 
course, no one acutally believes this.  You are scared sh*tless for your own 
sake.  Someone who can repair cars is going to do fine, if not for a (soon to 
not exist) dealership, then under a shade tree.  It's those ass-sitters 
holding 
onto their bags of air that about to take yet a further bump.


> .  >

So I keep hearing.  Back two or three years ago when I said that the way 
things are going the rapidly rising real estate prices would stop rising at 
the 
very least and might come down, it was met by some with the same sort of 
guffaws 
you effect.  Impossible!  Couldn't happen!  Foolish to think so!

And what happened??

> 
> >*******  

Oh, Bob, and how would you know?

In this economic turn down let's take stock:  I still have the same assets I 
had five years ago.  I haven't lost any cash, any value in any investment, in 
fact my most important investments in increased greatly in value because they 
are in real goods that I hold.  Further, I have not been driven by my loses 
to 
a smouldering paranoia that "they" are out to get me, montitor my movements 
and my transactions that would thwart my attempts to sulk off some where and 
hide my assets where "they" can't find me.

Now with your superior financial knowledge, tell us how you are doing?  

> >  Many smart people think that gold is a hard and real asset with which 
> 

So we keep hearing.  Now, point us to one, just ONE person you know who has 
bought tools, grains, farmland with gold.  It's hyperbole if not down right 
science fiction.  It is only what you and the paranoids think might happen if 
there is a deep crash in the economy, but you have not one example of it ever 
having happened like that.

> 
> >******* There are no children on this list.  If a person desires to live a 
> mundane hardscrabble life of financial poverty, that is 'easy'.  Actually, 
> I 
> can't think of anything easier .  If a person uses their brain along with 
> their back, poverty doesn't need to be the case.  


This above is just too moronic for comment. 

> 
> >You can 'opine', and 'opine'; but expect to be able to 'prove' your points 
> in the future.  No more nonsense.
> 

Bob, I might consider that from someone on a homestead list who is actually 
homesteading, but not from an out of shape, ass-sitting, city boy who 
wouldn't 
survive on a farm for a week.  I don't take critique about my financial views 
from someone who admits he's lost half the value of his holdings and is 
paranoid about the authorities finding out about the rest.  The gazelle does 
not ask 
the pig how to run.  

Now, continue to try to put me in my place and I will forget that I'm a 
gentleman.


James