Message From jl

Hi Everyone!

Well, first of all, I completely spaced, last week, and forgot to send iCop members the email on our new project. Sorry - I'll get it out THIS week. Promise.

Things kept distracting me. For instance, it seems there's just no limit to the depths scammers will stoop to online these days.

Someone reported the iCop seal on a web site selling complete sermons to ministers. It was set up on subscription, the charges were made every month, and no sermons were being delivered. Lovely.

Since it was NOT an iCop member doing this, normally it would have been outside my business to do anything about it. But, since this dude had also stolen the iCop seal, I got to jump in and make some waves. Time-consuming and icky!

Letter to the U.S. President

I saw this in a member's ezine entitled, “Senior to Senior” www.senior2senior.org/2009-6.html. I thought you might enjoy it.

The article appeared in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper. The Business Section asked readers, "How Would You Fix the Economy?" This guy nailed it!

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Dear Mr.President,

Patriotic retirement: There's about 40 million people over 50 in the work force; pay them $1 million apiece severance with stipulations:

1) They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.

3) They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.

4) They would probably use the rest to put in savings - Banking problem fixed.

Much cheaper than the trillions being ineffectively spent on the financial industry.
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Not bad, eh? And, he didn't even mention what it would do for the entertainment and travel industries!

Speaking of Trillions ...

I've been thinking, lately, about the difference in the way money has grown to be seen over the period of my lifetime. And, I do mean GROWN.

There was a time when the middle class couldn't even imagine having a million dollars. Government budgets were set in millions.

Billions, we simply couldn't fathom. Today, we are so blasé over money, we never even blink when they talk about TRILLIONS!

I believe this is one of the things that will make a recession even harder on everyone but the very upper monetary class. What used to look like living large, now looks so meager, folks don't want to mess with it.

Too bad. It's all a matter of perception. I saw a article in Jan Tallent's ezine www.rimdigest.com where she used this example for saving:

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“The little things really do count. Cutting what you spend on lunch from five dollars a day to three dollars a day, on every work day in a five day work week, saves $10 a week, or $40 a month, which is $480 a year and is $2400 in five years . . . plus interest.”
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She's right, of course. But, today, with all the expected instant gratification, people think $2400 in five years - ain't squat.

They can see a TRILLION before they can see $2400 five years down the line. We have at LEAST one full generation of people who think like that.

Inflation has a lot to do with it. I remember buying a new 3,000 sq ft house in the '70s for $32,000. Less than you can buy most new vehicles for today. Everything has simply spun out of control.

Because money is now thrown around in the billions and trillions, we think little bits don't count.

Do I have the answer? No. I only wish I did. But, I think the guy who wrote to the St. Petersburg Times is pretty damn close.

Have a fabulous week and ... keep on keepin' on!

  jl

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