Grouch wrote:
Now that it is time to make my forced donation to charity along with the
small fee for defense and regulation of trade between the many states, I
was pleasntly suprised to see Bush's tax cuts (thanks, too, to the
Republican Congress) have made my cruising kitty quite nice this year.

Well, where to begin... forced donation to charity, are you such a
compassionate conservative that you do as our Vice President does, and
donate _zero_ willingly? And if the Bush tax cuts have made a
significant impact on your finances, then you must have an income in
excess of $150K or thereabouts. Nice cruising kitty indeed unless you
are very spendy.

Along with the recovered and booming economy, ie everybody who deserves
a job has one, all my investments are pointing back to a very, VERY,
early retirement.

Yep, too bad everybody elses pension is going bust.

http://www.freep.com/money/business/...8_20031218.htm

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/...-Aluminum.html

http://www.benefitslink.com/links/20030522-022464.shtml

etc etc etc

Oh yeah, and about 40% of the stocks on the NYSE and about 70% of the
NASDAQ have not yet recovered to their 1999 highs. So in other words,
odds are you're full of baloney.


I hope you all have benefited as much as this working (actually work)
class individual.

See note about Bush tax cuts and income above


How much will it take to cruise indefinately around the world for
someone who is happy without all the excess crap like Bobsprit needs.


Skill & knowledge are the first two requirements, and they don't cost
anything but time.

DSK