Tuesday, October 7, 2008

New Retirement Plan

This was sent to me by my FIL, so I take no credit, but I thought it was funny (and good enough for filler for a post here):

NEW RETIREMENT PLAN

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left.


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.


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


Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg.


A recent study found the average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found Americans drink, on the average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.