Archive for March, 2009
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Georgia Legislators trying to Deepen the Debt?
Today’s Atlanta Journal carried an article about the state legislature’s plans to drop the property tax on vehicles in favor of a one-time “title tax”. Sound appealing on first blush, but then I got to thinking about it.
As written, the law has a couple of problems that will work to continue the kind of consumerism [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Just What is an Expert?
Over at the Simple Dollar Trent responded to one critic’s comments about his qualifications to provide financial information.
The critic’s comments got me to thinking about exactly what constitutes an expert. Think about this. What does make one an expert?
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Facing Ourselves, Facing Our Future
My students are in the nursing home. For many of them this is the first time they are confronted with the frailties of the human body and mind. Generally they approach this experience with a mix of excitement to be working with real people and fear/worry about what they’ll encounter and how they’ll handle it. [...]
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
When Life Hands You Lemons, Make No Excuses
I ran into a former high school student a few days ago. Harried with her college school work and working full-time to survive, she still looked happy.
Let me tell you a little about her. Mary had been kicked out of her mother’s house at age 15. she had lived with aunt for few months – [...]
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
What Would You Do With Millions of Dollars?
Wednesday’s news included an article about 12 insurance company employees winning the $212 Million dollar Mega-Millions Lotto. Somewhere I read that if taken as a lump sum the payout would be something like $171 Million. That works out to about $14.25 Million per person for each of those twelve people before taxes.
Winning the lotto or [...]
