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Too Complicated
I was raised in the country during those days we hear so much of today--The Great Depression. I did fine as a country boy in a one room schoolhouse, with one teacher for all eight grades. Money was a scarce commodity, but our food came out of our garden. We moved out of the country to a small town and life changed.
When you move from a county school to a city school, you are automatically put back one grade. It was common knowledge that one teacher cannot teach all eight grades in the same room, so I had to take the seventh grade over.
In high school I started with a college course, but soon found that I could not find anyone to converse with in Latin and I had great difficulty in finding “X” in Algebra. So I switched to a general course of study.
Ordinary mathematics was one of my subjects. Math helped me greatly in my golf. My game had improved and those unwelcome “X’s” were not messing up my golf scores, plus my scores were now easier to add up and were not looking like the National Debt.
The other day I was tuned in on a variety of News channels. News programs thrive on tragedies and bad news, and they were having a ball with the bad economic news. It was depressing, so I switched to the sports programs and every stadium of all major sports were filled to capacity. They were out to have a good time and had no idea that they were broke.
My hard work on the practice tee was responsible for reducing the high numbers on my score card, and my math made it easier to calculate, however the numbers used today would be more than I could handle. The debt figures tossed around today would require enough zero’s to reach from here to Birmingham.
Related to golf, it would be as if you bought (with credit card of course), every club that is advertised to improve your game, then didn’t practice with any of them.
They researched the proposed programs of both candidates and discovered that both will add $200 billion to the deficit, so take your pick. This situation is in the same category as the secret to golf.
I had planned for my life and my money to come out even by lunch time last Thursday, but by not using my car and turning off all of the lights in the rooms I was not using, allowing me to have a surplus on that day. I will now have to reset that date.