I think she has other problems besides losing her money.
They still hate Bush though.
trust, but Verify. No total investment in one place. Isn’t that the advice of every financial person of any reputable firm says? Diversify Diversify Diversify. I am sorry for your loss, but don’t mistake my empathy for sympathy.
Smart enough to save, smart enough to know the risk of investing in one place with one man. Heck, we even even sign prenuptual agreements with the person we plan to spend our lives with as a norm today! Don’t ya think a little more due diligence is in order when dealing with someone we don’t know well who is asking us to trust them with our hard earned money?
Sorry, no sympathy here. I wish you well, welcome to the ranks of those left out of the money game, and this time, thankfully so! And it is probably good you are self made, since we will be having to fend for ourselves for real for quite a while. There are many within your ranks who won’t know how.
Tragic. I know multimillionaire New Yorkers who regularly take the subway not because they have to but because it's actually a very effective transit system. Losing many of the luxeries she describes doesn't need to fundamentally change her life, it just means she'll have to make some adjustments.
The one thing it will fundamentally change is the ability to spend money without thinking about it, but if she's really been as big a saver as she claims she's probably never spent like this in the first place.
((Many of us out there have had to do this....only we never had the luxury of writing and complaining about it... ;))
(choke) Couldn’t happen to a nicer liberal. (sniff) Guess she’ll have to crank out a few more of those “sex books” and send her “consort”, Dennis, out into the street to look for a few more of those “very strong tranquilizers”.
She’s had to cancel her newspaper subscriptions. The New York Times takes another hit.
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Maybe Yolanda can teach her how to work for a living.
I,I,I,I, stuff,stuff,stuff, cleaning lady,stuff,I,I,I.....
Typical, materialistic, busy but purposeless.
One criminal can do a lot of damage in a myriad of ways.
My heart is just torn to pieces by this.
I’m sorry buy you should have edited this before posting. You can’t post stuff with terrible profanity in it here.
“…I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. “
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826),
Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)
Having never had the luxury of much luxury, I’m glad I learned to be “poor” early in life. Having enough is good enough for me.
And I got a Bail Out of my own. Check at http://auntiecoosa.blogspot.com
Wait ‘til she finds out that the nearest Wal-Mart is in Secaucus.
Anyone else having a hard time summoning sympathy for Bernie’s victims? I sure am. He didn’t even provide investors with legit docs about their investments—they were happy as long as the reports reported an increase, and failed to notice the absence of required legal disclosures on the pages...there is something fishy about all of this, though.
One of the consequences of the decline of the Christian religion in the West is that people tend to be unnaturally attached to possessions. Obviously Christians can suffer this affliction, and many do; they are just not being very good Christians when they do so. My point is that modern secular society compels us to be attached to possessions, whether in affluence or in deprivation.
It's one of many reasons why atheism doesn't work as a philosophy.
I feel great compassion for her. She didn’t do anything anybody else who rather suddenly comes into money might do (for instance, if I won the lottery or wrote a best-selling novel I would not presume to play the stock market; I’d probably hand the money over to Ric Edelman to invest the way Penney handed hers over to Bernard Madoff). She got regular, formal statements showing that the money was being well managed. Diversify, you say? Madoff’s statements showed that the money was being properly diversified, and anyway, who among us would argue with someone as brilliant as Madoff? Very few would have the insolence to do that.
So now she’s in her mid-sixties and is penniless. I greatly the guts she showed in taking humble jobs in the past—at the fishmarket, for instance; that’s a disgusting job. Right now she’s going through a perfectly normal period of mourning the impending loss of things and a life she has worked hard to acquire.
Stop sneering.