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Retirement Planning For 2008

patmac · 2008-03-10 21:34:47

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left But, if you had purchased…

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10-03-2008 10:34pm

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patmac

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If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now
be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00.

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have
$49.00 left

But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND,
You would have had $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink
heavily and recycle.

It's called the 401-Keg Plan

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#2 11-03-2008 12:29am
rocky25

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Where do I sign up for this plan Pat?

My sponser is MickRourke:rolleyes:

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#3 11-03-2008 12:36am
Thrill

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Best reason for recycling I've heard of yet. Sign me up too.

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