[Nowhere Man]

Americans haven't been savers for the past 50+ years. I don't know why ( I am a saver; always have been ) and it isn't because they are living from hand to mouth. Saving is a mindset, which went out of fashion long ago.

With the cost of living and taxes so high, who can save? I know there are some who over spend beyond their means and such and it is their fault but there are others who live hand to mouth.

BTW, read any good Victorian books lately, I'm reading a series of alternate history by Harry Turtledove about an alternate World War I where you have the North and South fight against each other.

Other notes, Im somewhat burned out on politics, when Rush comes on, usually I put in a Harry Potter book on tape and listen to that. Anyone up for a quick game of Quidditch? B-D

[nopardons]

HI...I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas ( or Hanukkah ) and that the New Year treats you well, old friend! :-)

No new Victorian/Edwardian books out for this Christmas, so no, I'm off reading on a different topic. I like alternative history books, so I just may look into what you're now reading. Thanks for the tip!

Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeease...don't hand me that tired excuse for not saving; it's so old, its white beard is trailing on the ground! Even the poorest of the poor can save, if they REALLY want to and some of them used to. Almost nobody lives from hand to mouth today. There is absolutely NO valid reason to NOT save; yet fewer and fewer people think ahead and put anything by. Part of it,I lay at the feet of Benjamin Spock, whose baby rearing book is partly responsible for generations of instant gratification whingers.

Can you play Quidditch on line?

[Sunnyflorida]

"With the cost of living and taxes so high, who can save?"

What I find amazing are the number of poh who cannot afford to save but can afford beer and cigarettes.