On 5/22/2013 7:09 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 22 May 2013 02:36:41 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Wed, 22 May 2013 02:05:16 -0400, Tom Gardner Mars@Tacks wrote:

On 5/21/2013 10:12 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2013 20:35:33 -0400, Tom Gardner Mars@Tacks wrote:

On 5/20/2013 3:58 PM, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:33 -0700, whoyakidding's ghost
wrote:

On Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45:22 -0400, Ed Huntress
wrote:


To be serious here, Tom, you defending the right-whiners looks pretty
silly. You know as well as anyone that they're full of crap, most of
the time.

Nope. He believes most of that nonsense. He has the same sort of
mental midget disease as the other two.

I don't think so. He's just a small business owner who will defend
anyone who thinks he isn't making enough money. My dad was a lot like
Tom. I recognize the type.

He doesn't believe half of it.



Money is only a scorecard.

That's true only _after_ you get beyond the low point of what it costs
you to live even meagerly.


And dog food, and cat food, and gasoline for the truck...etc etc


--

Yes, after the necessities. As I've aged, I notice that material stuff
that has little or no purpose means nothing to me. If I hit the lotto,
I doubt I'd change my lifestyle much and the money would have no worth
as it wasn't earned.

After the necessities. It is most certainly important up to a certain
point. When business was good...having 2 domociles, reliable
transportation, regular food for human and pets..it all fell into
place.

Now that business is bad...it becomes far far more important.

Ive got $40..and I need 50lbs of dog food. So do I put tires on the
Hobi Cat so I can deliver it to a friend for free..or buy dog food?

Crikey, mon. If the friend can't come up with the price of tires, he
certainly can't afford to ever take the Hobie Cat on the water...and
doesn't deserve your friendship, for that matter. You're losing your
ass by being such a nice guy.

gummer has never in his life been "such a nice guy", nor has he ever
contemplated it. gummer would be as likely to steal tires to go put on
the trailer, then steal the boat.



At a certain point...its far far more than a score card. Its an
incredibly complicated juggling act.

Yeah, put these Senators on a typical US wage earner's budget and see
how well they do. I'd like to see newly hatched Congresscritters live
on the street (or even in an everyman's home) for a month to see
what's really important in life.

--
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight
very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
-- John Wayne