XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: nospam@thanksalot.com   
      
   John Fleming wrote:   
   > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:39:04 -0700, while chained to a desk   
   > in the scriptorium "merlin!"  wrote:   
   >> $John Fleming wrote:   
   >   
   >> $> Charles Dickens put it so well -   
   >> $>   
   >> $>     My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr.   
   >> $>     Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual   
   >> $> expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.   
   >> $>     Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty   
   >> $>     pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is   
   >> $>     blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes   
   >> $>     down upon the dreary scene, and, in short, you are   
   >> $>     for ever floored. As I am!   
   >> $>   
   >> $> Living within your means isn't exactly a new concept.   
   >> $   
   >> $No, no it isn't. Managing that in today's tyrannical tax-slavery and   
   >> $"invented debt" society, is. Not a problem for you, of course. You   
   >> are so $much smarter than the rest of us.   
   >   
   > There are lots of us who manage to live within our means.   
   > And it doesn't take a lot of brains.   
      
   Obviously not, since you manage it.   
      
   > All it takes is a   
   > commitment to spending less each month than you earn.   
      
   Keeping your head down when the government goons are sniffing around also   
   helps.   
      
      
   > Yes, sometimes you have to tighten your belt.  Maybe   
   > deferring a few treats for a while.  I don't think it means   
   > living on a diet of Kraft dinner, but it may mean a   
   > staycation instead of a trip to Barbados.   
      
   You don't think. Period.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)