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The World from Mabel's Grill
Wayne Bruce missed yesterday's
session at Mabel's Grill. "I had to
visit my financial advisor to do
something about getting some money
socked away in RRSPs before the
deadline,” he explained this morning.
"Well,"
said Dave
Winston, "I
consulted my
financial
advisor this
morning —
over the
breakfast table
— and she
said I was
dreaming in
technicolour if
I thought there
was any
money to put
in RRSPs this
year. With the cost of feed last year,
my pigs ate my RRSP."
"Things weren't exactly great in
the shoe business either, last year,"
said Wayne, "but I borrowed a few
bucks so I could put something
away."
"I borrowed more than a few
bucks so my pigs could put
something away," Dave said. "Thank
goodness pork prices have come back
or the banker would be putting me
away."
"But aren't you worried about all
this talk about there not being any
pension when you get old enough to
retire?" Wayne wondered.
"The wife says first we'll worry
about eating so we live long enough
to retire. Then we'll worry about
living until we die."
"I don't know," Wayne said, "I
kind of like the idea of some
financial security in my old age."
"If I was financially secure it
would be such a shock to my system
it would probably kill me," Dave
joked.
"I know what Wayne means,"
chipped in Cliff Murray. "Everytime
you turn around somebody's scolding
you because you haven't got a
million dollars stuck away in RRSPs.
They make it sound like a sin if
you're not investing your maximum
every year."
"I am investing my maximum
every year. I can't help it if that
happens to be nothing more years
than not. It's one thing for the
government to say you can invest
$14,000 a year but they're not telling
you where you can get it!"
"I don't know about you," said
George McKenzie, "but I'm sick and
tired of people trying to scare the hell
out of me over this or that. I mean
people quit going to church because
they were tired of preachers
threatening them that if they didn't
walk the straight and narrow they'd
suffer eternal fire and brimstone.
Now you turn on the TV or the radio
and you've got everybody and his
maiden aunt warning you that you'd
better do this or that or you're going
to be sorry."
"I'm with you," Cliff said. "I go to
farm meetings and there's always
some guy telling me I better get
bigger or I'm doomed. Well after
watching farming for the last 50
years, I figure the odds are sooner or
later I'm doomed anyway so at least I
won't speed things up by putting a
mortgage for a half -million dollar
barn around my neck."
"Yeh," said Dave, "I was at this
meeting the other night and this guy
says we'd all better go global or die.
He says my future's hooked up to
producing pigs for the Japanese or
the Chinese. Well I got news for him.
My pigs are here. The Japanese and
Chinese are half a world away. If the
pigs get from here to there,
somebody else is going to make a lot
more money off them than I am."
"I bet he told you you had to work
smarter, not harder," Wayne Bruce
said. "They always say that — these
guys who stand up in front of meet-
ings. I see them at conventions in the
shoe business too. And you know
they're right. Obviously they learned
how to work smarter because we're
the suckers paying good money to
listen to them make speeches."
"Or they're working for some
university and will take early
retirement at 55 making more a year
than you'll earn in the best year of
your dreams," said George.
"And you know what?," Dave
said, "They're the only ones who will
be able to sock away the maximum
in their RRSP!"0