"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message news:<bbebv6$8kge9$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de>...
> John W. wrote:
> > "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:<bbdmk3$891p5$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de>...
> >> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> >>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> John W. wrote:
> >>>>> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> >>>>> news:<bbapp3$7fbg9$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de>...
> >>>>>> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Why should you not be? You plan not to have children perhaps?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I plan to have them, but I also plan to teach them to depend on
> >>>>>> themselves
> >>>>>> for their retirement savings and health care, not the state.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Speaking as a parent to non-parent, how, pray tell, do you plan to
> >>>>> accomplish this incredible feat?
> >>>>
> >>>> I would tell them about investment and things called "insurance
> >>>> companies". What makes this an incredible feat?
> >>>
> >>> Nothing incredible about that.
> >>
> >> Exactly. I guess John thinks teaching kids words like "investment"
> >> is far
> >> more difficult than teaching them concepts like "entitlement".
> >
> > You think teaching them the vocabulary alone is enough? Interesting.
> 
> I never said that.
> 
You said "I guess John thinks teaching words like..." and etcetera. Or
did you not mean what you said in that sentence?

> >> His appeal to
> >> his status as a parent was absolutely bizarre.
> >
> > One thing just about every parent will tell you is that before being a
> > parent they knew absolutely nothing about being a parent. It's just
> > amusing sometimes to listen to non-parents talk about parenting.
> 
> What's the amusing part? You have no more experience in the area at hand
> than I do.
> 
I don't? As you state below, you have no children. I know you hate to
have anyone tell you that you absolutely have no idea what you're
talking about, but you don't. Just like I don't have any idea what it
will be like when my son is 10. But I have a great deal more knowledge
about raising a child than you do. And everyone without kids (and
definitely those on the road to having them) thinks that people with
kids are patronizing them.

> >> Given the age of his sprog, I
> >> think it is safe to say that John and I have spent exactly the same
> >> amount
> >> of time teaching our children about planning for their retirement.
> >
> > I wasn't aware you had any children.
> 
> I don't. My point stands.

Your point was that you have experience teaching your kids. And you
have no kids. So what point were you trying to make?

John W.