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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (91109)	6/1/2001 10:17:39 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Speaking of deals....I hear they're letting champagne go cheap in the Sixers' dressing room tonight.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (91109)	6/1/2001 10:26:41 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

It is such an immense relief to communicate with someone who understands what I am complaining about. As I said, I guess the power of taxation stands behind my pension fund. But it is interesting to contemplate that when I first began contributing (obligatorily) the fund was governed by people who had survived the Depression, or whose parents had. So they put everything in AAA bonds. Now I have lived long enough so that the governors are from the sixties and seventies, and espouse mindless buy and hold of the most "advanced" stocks. Happily, in the interval, I married a wife whom I kept largely in equities and now have totally into inflation-adjusted bonds. (And I have my own stocks in energy) So I am OK. At least I am not one of those World War I soldiers in France being sent into an impossible assault by some idiotic general. Some of these SI threads are islands of sanity in an ocean of idiocy.