Well, it sounds like you've made a lot of "right" decisions. I sympathize with your skepticism of people making money to help others get out of debt or make more money, but Ramsey is a pretty incredible guy. I've learned so much (and come to grips with more) listening to his radio show when I happen catch it. Anyway, he's one of the good guys. I think his popularity mostly comes from his radio show which is free anyway. If you haven't listened to him it would only take a few minutes of listening to one of his shows to see he's very legit, even if you personally don't need his advice.
Your email is all about material possessions. I guess this means there was nothing more important to mention, like the loss of a job for you or your wife at a critical time, a medical problem that makes your yearly salary look silly small, or some other emergency-out-of-the-blue-event that takes your "just use your head" and shows how easily that doesn't always apply. I think our country is looking pretty silly right now. At first I was thinking the bailout for the financial industry was a better-than-not idea, and possibly even the car industry. But now I don't. It's hard to imagine Ford, GM and Chrysler going away, but now I've read the porn industry wants a bailout. Seriously <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28545081/> . This is our example. America is raising people to think like a welfare state by dealing with these issues the way they are. Too many people think their own self-destructive habits are someone else's responsibilities to solve, that they are owed something. It's greed. -- Mike Gill From: Michael Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Would this be good for IT, or what? (UNCLASSIFIED) I didn't even listen to dave ramsey.. I didn't listen to a single "financial expert".. never have.. never will.. Basic common sense gets you there IMHO.. I don't need to pay for things that quite frankly. I just do not need things like monthly fees for itunes, "zunetunes" Netflix, blockbuster memberships, etc I don't have EVERY movie channel.. I don't keep up with the joneses.. I don't buy expensive things when I cant afford them. If I cant afford that super cool $40,000 camaro.. I don't get it.. I just admire it and curse those who do LOL. It took me 7 years of Marriage, and 15 years of saving and working to actually get a 57 inch tv and a 7.1 surround system.. that was a big thing for us. And Im not in debit over it. Wifey and I had battle after battle after battle on this subject.. now,. she's driving a 2007 Mustang that SHE bought with the money that SHE saved herself over 4 years of saving after her old car was paid off.. we didn't pay cash for it, but it will be paid off this year for sure. I don't listen to "gurus" who claim to tell you the "secret" is to "will yourself" out of debit.. just use your head.. Ok.. no more rants for mikey. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
