XPost: can.general, can.politics, ott.general   
   From: nospam@thanksalot.com   
      
   John Fleming wrote:   
   > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:26:34 -0700, while chained to a desk   
   > in the scriptorium "merlin!"  wrote:   
   >> $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.   
   >   
   > Which, by the way, also gives you one less excuse for not   
   > living within yours.   
      
   I've never had any trouble living within my means. Where do you get these   
   crazy ideas?   
      
      
   >> $> 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.   
   >   
   > That makes two of us--you and me--right?   
      
   Just you and your bumbuddy.   
      
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