John W. wrote:
> "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?

Did you see the part where I mentioned the teaching of concepts? Eep! Please
tell me that you don't plan on home schooling the sprog. He'd be better off
at a government school.

>>>> 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?

Yes.

> As you state below, you have no children.

Yes, I don't.

> I know you hate to
> have anyone tell you that you absolutely have no idea what you're
> talking about, but you don't.

Why don't I? You've yet to show that you have any grounds for the bizarre
pulling of rank you are attempting.

> 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.

The topic was not raising [sic] a child. The topic was teaching one's child
about investment and insurance.

> And everyone without kids (and
> definitely those on the road to having them) thinks that people with
> kids are patronizing them.

Now there's a verbal fart.

>>>> 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.

No, my point was that I have the same amount of experience teaching my
children about planning for their retirement as you do. Please don't ask me
to defend things that I did not say. It makes me feel pesci.

> And you
> have no kids.

Yes.

> So what point were you trying to make?

Wow. I whooshed you and I wasn't even trying.

-- 
Kevin Gowen