February 2009
The politics of pots and kettles
Earlier this week, there was a summit of governor’s called by President Obama. The most interesting to me was one news report indicating they were going to talk about “fiscal responsibility.”
The fact that elected elite vote to spend yours and money today and put this country into such significant deficit that our children’s children will be still struggling to see the end of debt tells me that our elected officials are too entrenched in the attitude of “spend what I want” that this level of hypocrisy is laughable.
These are the people that are spending over $23,000 of every tax payers money in less than 1 year just in a bunch of “stimulus” bills.
The last people that can claim any level of fiscal responsibility are those that so freely spend your money and mine without thought of the reality they are causing.
But, what does this really mean? Is this something we should worry about? continue reading...
Are you cheap or frugal?
A number of years ago my wife and I wanted to go on a cruise. We met some owners of a CruiseOne franchise. I did a little graphic design work for them and got a little excited about the prospect of going on a cruise. We had never cruised before, but working with them got us a bit excited.
So, we started our discussions with them on where we wanted to go. We talked about Alaska, Hawaii and the Caribbean. We didn’t know what we wanted to do or where we wanted to go because we had never done it before.
We thought we made up our mind when doing some personal research until one of the owners came up with a brilliant plan for us. continue reading...
