Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pcp656107pcs.tallah01.fl.comcast.NET!not-for-mail From: "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: That's our Clinton! Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:55:39 -0400 Lines: 111 Message-ID: <bbgo8c$94i6k$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> References: <bb550t$5o5v7$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> <bb7pnr$6q0b8$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> <3ED76B1A.2196D1E5@yahoo.co.jp> <bb8lev$6v9jk$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> <3ED89B3C.7CE63E03@yahoo.co.jp> <bbapp3$7fbg9$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> <73fde4f0.0305311409.325757aa@posting.google.com> <bbbbpj$7qoe1$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> <3ED9CB77.6AC171F2@yahoo.co.jp> <bbdmk3$891p5$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> <73fde4f0.0306011800.50e57eea@posting.google.com> <bbebv6$8kge9$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de> <73fde4f0.0306020825.76422071@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp656107pcs.tallah01.fl.comcast.net (68.35.216.205) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054598221 9586900 68.35.216.205 (16 [105084]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:547 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