MONEY MONEY MONEY
What hasn't been said about money?

One I like is the definition of a successful man as one who makes more money than his wife can spend.  While the definition of a successful woman is to find such a man.

Another was one the old golf coach used to say.  "He's made a lot of money by doing business in this town, but I made my money in education."

From working for 75 cents an hour to paying $4.50 to see The Beatles in concert in St. Louis to paying $400 dollars a ticket to see Super Bowl XXXIV (and sit in the upper deck), I guess I've experienced sundry money moments.  Sundry doesn't usually stand by itself any more than the fork in Farmer's in the Dell or dandy as in fine and dandy, but you get my drift.

I'm wondering what kind of financial shape our country would be in today if there were no credit cards as in the olden days.  I mean how could it be any worse?  And for any of my Obama fan readers, his economic policies have failed on all fronts.  Unemployment figures show a 9.1 % number.  For the 96 months Geo W. Bush was in office, the figure was 5.25.  That's just one example.  On no economic indicator can better conditions be found under this admin.  Including one of his bugaboos--the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer since his inauguration.

So.  You'll have to excuse my rabbit road (any discourse that long can't be called a trail) and go back to my money imaginings about no credit cards.  I'm probably not right about what a difference it would make.  I should, perhaps, look at the bigger picture culminating with why we don't make things, why we don't produce things anymore.  But I know less about that than I know about most things.  So I'll conjecture about money no more.

I'm like most, I suppose.  I don't really like money.  But I sure like the things it can buy.  Money may not buy me love, but it can undoubtedly buy me comfort.