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HOME TOWN NEWS: Last night I was watching a game show (which is something that I rarely do), but when they interviewed the contestant, it caught my ear. The game show host asked the college Senior what he would do if he won the money.
Before I tell you what he said, he had previously divulged that his parents were both educated professionals and that he was studying chemistry and biology. In other words, he wasn’t in college with a grade point average of 1.6 on a football scholarship.
His plans for the money were to throw a huge kegger, go to Las Vegas and gamble, and to buy a new car. His friends thought these were all terrific ideas. They were also college students and fraternity brothers.
The next contestant, a younger single professional, said that if she won, she would take her friends to Tahiti and surf. Are you starting to see a pattern? Heck, I just kept watching the next half hour show.
The first contestant on that show was also a younger professional female who was going to take the money and go to Spain in hopes of meeting an attractive Spaniard and they would live happily ever after. I turned the TV off.
You think I’m making this up don’t you? I wish. I view most everything from an economist’s standpoint, mixed with a large dose of common sense.
What did each of these contestants have in common? No, I mean other that being in la-la land. They are convinced that there is no need for saving. They are convinced that next year will be just as lucrative as their past years. They are convinced that there is no end to the money and the flamboyant lifestyle. I could go on, but in short, these people are ill prepared to live in Reality-land.
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