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It's Friday, time for a little lightening up.

I heartily agree with Kat's post, though - while we need to defend the troops from slander and those who would paint with a large brush - we need to spend as much time making sure we bring 'em *all* home, and by that I mean the guys and gals who've come back... but a significant part of them is still "over there."

Stress is stress. And getting help to handle it is the *right* way to go.

Now, that levity I promised...

RETIREMENT PLANNING FOR 2007

If you had purchased $1,000.00 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 $1,000.00.

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

If you had purchased $1,000.00 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.

H/t CSM Larry.

Then there's *this* - here's a Non-Commissioned Officer with a weighty responsibility.

Presidential Leap<br />
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kevin McDaniel November 14, 2007 </p>

<p>Former President George H.W. Bush, 83, the oldest living president, free falls with Sgt. 1st Class Mike Elliot at the grand reopening of the Bush Library in College Station, Texas (Texas A&M University), Nov. 10.

Presidential Leap Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kevin McDaniel November 14, 2007

Former President George H.W. Bush, 83, the oldest living president, free falls with Sgt. 1st Class Mike Elliot at the grand reopening of the Bush Library in College Station, Texas (Texas A&M University), Nov. 10.

6 Comments

The Nortel Stock one is no joke. As a former employee of Nortel I dropped & grand in to Nortel Stock. I watched it split 3 times at over $50 a share. Now It's worth about $2.94 a share. I can't give it away.
 
SWWBO suffered similarly with Sprint, when her Sprint 401 (funded exclusively with their stock, natch) went from 100K to 18K. It's back up somewhere in the 30's. Thank heaven's I work for a privately held company, and our profit share goes into the 401(k) as a cash infusion, which I can immediately move around as I wish.
 
I have two retirement schemes. Plan A involves a lottery ticket and an act of God. Plan B I work till I die then retire.
 
People... people... people.... Do I *really* need to do an "investing 101" post for you? NEVER PUT ALL OF YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET. NEVER INVEST MONEY YOU AREN'T WILLING TO LOSE. DIVERSIFICATION DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU OWN ONE SHARE OF EVERY TECH STOCK OUT THERE. *sigh* As for our skydiving Prez... He is SO damn kewl. This isn't the first time he's gone for a piggy-belly ride. He wanted to go by himself, but the SS (and Barbara maybe) won't let him. Whatta MAN!
 
... but a significant part of them is still "over there." Always will be, for most of them. Hopefully, Time and Selective Memory will do their thing and the mental anchor won't yank them under...
 
But AFSis if'n yer don't put all your eggs in the one basket you gotta go back to get the rest once you bring them in :-D Ohhh one share per tech stock that would be cool just think of all the 6c checks you could get.
 
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