{"id":8478,"date":"2013-09-17T12:48:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/financial-advice-short-form-and-long-form\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:48:04","slug":"financial-advice-short-form-and-long-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/09\/17\/financial-advice-short-form-and-long-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Advice: Short Form and Long Form"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Finacial<\/a><\/p>\n

Source<\/a>.  Excellent advice, except for the last item.  But the advice is incomplete.  For a rather more complete analysis, see Some Principles of a Financial Conservative<\/a> wherein I proffer advice that is rock-solid, absolutely free, and that also has the interesting property that few will follow it due to the social and moral decline of the nation<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The article from which I borrowed the above graphic sports this delightfully amphibolous construction: "It's really hard to be poor . . . ."  <\/span><\/p>\n

Reading those words, I thought to myself, yes, of course, you really have to work at being poor in this, the greatest and most prosperous nation ever to exist, a country that needs walls to keep people out unlike the commie states that need walls to keep people in.   Anyone can avoid poverty if they practice<\/span> he practices the old virtues and works hard.  But then I realized that that cannot be the meaning intended in a sentence to be found in the left-leaning Washington Com<\/span>Post.<\/span><\/p>\n

A textbook example of amphiboly, then.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source.  Excellent advice, except for the last item.  But the advice is incomplete.  For a rather more complete analysis, see Some Principles of a Financial Conservative wherein I proffer advice that is rock-solid, absolutely free, and that also has the interesting property that few will follow it due to the social and moral decline of … Continue reading “Financial Advice: Short Form and Long Form”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logica-utens","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}