NationStates Jolt Archive


401-K Plan

Aximalt
24-02-2005, 05:48
Bad use of $1,000
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If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
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With Enron,
you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
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With WorldCom,
you would have had less than $5.00 left.
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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.
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Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
It's called the 401-Keg Plan
(Now if I could just learn to like beer)