Reply #30: thinking for ourselves allowed ............

[dothemath]

still_one makes some good points. I am a firm believer in relying on those things that worked for me over the years and that is why I am retired and living in a house that is worth 6 times what I owe on it.

Yet, I recently asked the bank that held a loan on the remaining one-sixth to renew that loan for just 5 years. My FICO score is 850 and I do not owe a dime to anyone in the world. The bank refused.

We are living in a bizarro world, my fellow prisoners, and the answers to questions regarding our very survival will not be found in a "ask your doctor about .....", or "and now an American Idol Special", or a 10 second snippet on your favorite faux news show. You better start thinking some for yourself or shut up and get out of the way. Who knows? Maybe Warren Buffet or the hedge fund manager who made 4 billion dollars last year will allow a 'trickle' of sustenance to flow to you.

Yeah, right.