I would be interested in knowing what my father would think of the current economic environment, but he has Alzheimer’s and I fear that if I mention how things are going, that would be the only thing he would remember from day to day. And he was always obsessed over the state of his finances.
Fortunately, I listen to Glenn Beck and dumped his mutual funds around Dow 12000.
I am listening to the Senators talking about these TARP funds. It is unbelieveable. How can these people read what has happened in history and turn around and do it all over again. IDIOTS ALL!
I think all our fathers were obsessed with finances, due to what they had been through. My dad father walked/stumbled down the road when my dad was in 8th grade. He had to quit school to help his mom raise his 3 younger brothers and sister. He went to work in a foundry, learned the business and ultimately opened his own foundry. I suspect that Dad’s problem with Roosevelt must have had something to do with dad starting a business and Roosevelt policies messing him up in that somehow.
But yea, my dad was very on top of money issues. You did not borrow money, you did not put all your money in the bank etc. etc. I was telling my son just the other day that employers didn’t borrow money to pay payroll. It was in the late 60’s and early 70’s when people started thinking it was a good idea to work on “someone else’s money”. What a stupid idea that was;/