{"id":514,"date":"2005-03-14T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/03\/14\/401-keg-plan\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T14:02:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T18:02:36","slug":"401-keg-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/03\/401-keg-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"401-keg Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Aunt Elaine sent me the following as a bit of humor. I&#8217;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 <em>nothing at all<\/em> to fix the social security system itself.  If you&#8217;d like to invest, go ahead and invest &#8211; don&#8217;t mess up one of the few things that works pretty well in this country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Investing for your retirement<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>If you had purchased $1000.00<br \/>\nof Nortel stock one year ago,<br \/>\nit would now be worth $49.00. <\/p>\n<p>With Enron,<br \/>\nyou would have had<br \/>\n$16.50<br \/>\nleft of the original $1,000.00. <\/p>\n<p>With WorldCom,<br \/>\nyou would have had less than<br \/>\n$5.00 left. <\/p>\n<p>But, if you had purchased $1,000.00<br \/>\nworth of Beer one year ago,<br \/>\ndrank all the beer,<br \/>\nthen turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND,<br \/>\nyou would have had<br \/>\n$214.00. <\/p>\n<p>Based on the above,<br \/>\ncurrent investment advice is to<br \/>\ndrink heavily and<br \/>\nrecycle. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called the 401-Keg Plan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faith-Based Retirement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[518,519,174,520,521,522,523,524],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics","tag-401k","tag-beer","tag-enron","tag-faith-based-retirement","tag-investment","tag-nortel","tag-stocks","tag-worldcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}