i see it as the way we look at life; most of us want to choose our life and head in a certain direction. lefties never want to choose, therefore, they are never forced to make the hard decisions like, "giving up starbucks" in favor of getting together the money for a down payment on a car or a house.
we've had debt.. and we will have it again at some point but it will be short term. but right now, our college and private school expenses are our number one priority.
but they wont be forever.
Exactly -- it is understanding the debt you are taking on and what the return will be for what you are leveraging.
That part never occurs to the DUmmies. They want everything they want and they want the gummint to provide it. Now.
ive been talking about my little hippie neighbor on here of late. she is very sweet and a helluva lot of fun, but really clueless about the world. in causal conversation this week it came up that in our house, we plan our year every september when my husband gets his bonus and we cash in stock and decide what we are doing - for the next year. a full twelve months. this includes holidays, birthdays, trips... everything.
she had never heard of anything like that before. i was telling her that our taxes here are getting so out of control, along with the threat of Hilary or Obama coming in and laying down even more burden on us, that we werent sure we could send the little one to private school next year.
she was shocked.. she thought there must be some program we could use to keep going to the private school.. i said, "no, they have scholarships but we arent desparate. we just wont spend as much and focus on getting the college kiddo out cause thats more pressing."
i could see she was mulling it all over and thinking about how taxes could affect anyone's ability to go to school.. granted, she has toddlers, so this hasnt hit her yet. but she's apparently never been exposed to the idea of having to wait or put things off. she did grow up here, so i cut her a TON of slack..
