VirusHead

My Aunt Elaine sent me the following as a bit of humor. I’m not sure how accurate the stats are, but it serves as a little reminder of the possible consequences what I think of as the faith-based retirement plan. Of course, this plan the President is all excited about does nothing at all to fix the social security system itself. If you’d like to invest, go ahead and invest – don’t mess up one of the few things that works pretty well in this country.

Investing for your retirement

If you had purchased $1000.00
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.

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,
current investment advice is to
drink heavily and
recycle.

It’s called the 401-Keg Plan