Thank you for the time you spend on your excellent writings for Money Morning and your financial expertise. I enjoy reading Money Morning each day, but I do have an issue with your latest piece. While I can appreciate your sacrifice in postponing your Ironman dreams, I had to chuckle a bit since that is like postponing a luxury and not anywhere near the crisis events of say; postponing surgery because you don’t have medical insurance due to a job loss, postponing the filling of your prescription drugs because you need to pay the heating bill, or postponing your next meal because your social security is spent for the month. Yes, all sacrifice is individual, but your postponing of a China Triathlon seems so trivial compared to many realities.

Sharing; sure we all need to tithe, but privately and in our customary manner. Remember, voters have made some choices. (I was outvoted on more than one occasion). Don’t come crying to me if things consequently turn out worse because of poor collective choices.