If you had purchased $1,000 in shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today.
If you had purchased $1,000 in shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today.
If you had purchased $1,000 in shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will have received $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.
A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.
That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon!
Makes you proud to be an American!
(From Aunt Linda)
Funny you mentioned AIG.. Stocks may not be worth anything…but their eceutives sure are. After receiving $85 Billion from Our Government to save them from Bankruptcy they went and spent $440,000 on a posh retreat in California for it’s eceutives, spas, golf courses, ect. Somebody sure knows their way around Washington don’t they?? Below is a link to CNN’s web site so you can read it for yourself….
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/08/politicians.meltdown.aig.ap/index.html
By: lizzygram on October 8, 2008
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