Money, Wealth and the Economy

This week’s blog consists basically of my feelings and thoughts about money, wealth and the economy.  Short, sweet and to the point:

• “He who dies with the most toys wins” is wrong.  “He who has played with the most toys” is the real winner.
• Paying the bills isn’t painful; but making those subtractions hurts like hell.  They need to invent a calculator that has no subtract function.
• Dying with a hefty bank account only means you never learned to live.
• Money does not equal class.  You can’t buy class no matter how much you are willing to pay for it. 
• Don’t worry about the people who look like they might cheat you.  Worry about the ones who don’t.
• I have no problem whatsoever with people being given needed assistance, but a person who owns and drives a $60,000 car does not belong in Section 8 Housing.
• Always tip your hairdresser well.  After all, he or she works with sharp implements.
• We frequently forget that money is simply a trade commodity; how much we have in the bank is no indication of our worth or character.
• “The rich get rich and the poor get poorer” are lyrics from a song written in 1921.  Some things never change, do they?   
• The problem lies not with that 1% who hold a great deal of the country’s wealth, the problem lies with a Congress and the State  & County Governments that decide to go on nonstop shopping sprees with whatever assets that the remaining 99% might have.
• Haul out the caskets and rehearse the dirges:  the Middle Class is now dribbling out its last pint of blood.

Now, I will end with the following observation from W. Somerset Maugham:

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

No, I lied  . . . . . I will end with the following from Woody Allen:

If only God would give me some clear sign!  Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

Until the next time, LLAP!