Goomba38 > wrote in
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> PeterLucas wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Just a question.......... why is it that most Yanks are on a 'strict
>> budget' or any sort of budget?
>>
>> The only people we see on 'budgets' over here are people on the dole
>> (welfare.... no food stamps here!!) or lower income wage earners that
>> have 'gone beyond their means'.
>>
>
> Perhaps because as a single person she likes living within her income
> debt free yet also likes to indulge in costly travel and other
> expenditures that she budgets her money for. And all the while she
> maintains that house (and payments) in Arizona while living elsewhere
> for 3 month periods of time.
>



OK, you've obviously answered for Christine.... but what about the rest
of America?


("Costly travel"???? In '93 plane fare were $99 max anywhere in the
US!!!)


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Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


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but they do not end where you please.

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