Jan

15

The devastation in Haiti is mind-boggling. David Brooks the other day reminded us in an NY Times op-ed piece that the quake in 1989 in the Bay Area killed 63. As of today they have buried 40,000, with esitmates of another 100,000 more potential deaths. The earthquake in Haiti was also 7.0.

A stark contrast of a poor nation and a wealthy one.

Give if you can. We need to do more than come to their immediate relief. We need to help Haiti to help themselves. We need to do this on a long term basis. It has been wonderful to see the outpouring of support and donations from so many of our Celebrities. The news media is doing a great job of keeping this story in the forefront. To all of you that have given, no matter the amount, may you be richly blessed.

Praise for the Obama administration in ramping up USAID. It is something that has been a long time coming.

If you can, donate through the net …

American Red Cross 

Or Send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999

Or donate by calling 1-800-REDCROSS or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish)

 

 

 

Apr

9

I think we forget that majority out there are the people who have managed their finances in a sane and conservative way. For many of us that can stay employed these can be some good years for investing your money and saving for your retirement.

I am not trying to be a cheerleader here. In fact, I think we are years from getting out of this mess. But, I look at this this way. If you are fifty [My Son’s definition of antiquity] you still have fifteen years until retirement. That is certainly enough time to to have a long position with respect to your finances.

Blogs are really a transient form of communiction. Many of the subjects I want to address are far from transient. They are lifelong behaviors. As such, these blogs are going to be little more than a brief description and a link to a page on my site.

My main focus for this is for people who are in good finanacial shape. If this is not your case my main site has a great deal of content for people that need to dig themselves out. You can start by “clicking here”.

For those of you that do not need to start at the beginning… I hope my first topic does not drive you away. But, I felt real strong about leading off with this.

“click here”. 

 

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