“in every marriage there is a nerd and a free spirit” all he is referencing is that each individual is unique and when money is handled that each of their talents should be utilized while they work together to reach agreements about spending and financial planning.
Again, wrong. The 'when' and 'should' is key. He's trying to create an ideal situation.
The 'unique talent' is what? No talent is needed - ONLY plain old COMMON SENSE! How many "free spirits' are married together - with their credit card debt and buying homes they could never support because the banks said they could afford it. Credit card debt has been soaring for years. Discipline and common sense is all that is needed.
And by kindergarten you either have it or don't! ' UNIQUE TALENT' LOL! It's unique because so few have it and if one happens to makes a poor choice in marrying someone w/o a lick of sense and discipline, who can financially ruin them, it can take them years to undo the damage. It's harder instilling good habits in an adult than a child!
and believe me I know more about it than many. I’d give you my credentials,
LOL!! I just read your 'credentials' with the 'I know better than anyone' attitude. Is that you, Hillary or Obama or Rove?
but I’ve spent enough time correcting your purposefully ignorant post.
Your time is precious - you have a lot to catch up on to undo your ignorance with that 'high and mighty' attitude. Get busy.
“I don’t have to know Dave or listen to him to make an opinion of him”
So you prefer to continue to be purposefully ignorant. That is fine until you say:
“Discipline and common sense is all that is needed.”
That is precisely what Dave teaches, so I don’t understand why you started with an attack on him and continue to act like his teachings are the issue in our society. In fact, posters on one of his sites have entered their “debt paid off or money saved” amounts and it has tabulated to $48.5M so far.
His statement that drew your ire was a very loose generalization, which should be expected in any article that has such limited space.