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Issue #43; April 28, 2003 Ask Boomer Al is the fun newsletter of BoomerJournals.com. If you don't want to receive it, we don't want to send it to you. Unsubscribe info is located at the bottom of each issue. _.·´¯) Contents (¯`·._ 1) This week's questions 2) What's up with this? 3) Boomer HA! HA! 4) Attitude Counts! _.·´¯) Questions (¯`·._ Ask Boomer Al Issue #43; April 28, 2003 Dear Al You seem like a straight forward guy. My wife and I are thinking of joining a company called Pre-Paid Legal, not to make money but to use the service. What do you know about it? Thanks! Phil Dear Phil The concept of pre-paid legal is a good one. In this age of litigation you never know when you will need legal advice. The concept is like insurance. You pay a flat monthly rate for a discount on legal services and some minor free benefits.If you have no interest in building the network you probably would end up paying too much for the service. Similar programs are available from AARP and other such organizations that would no doubt do the job for you. They can be found on the web. Some legal groups provide the service within their own state. You will find more choices if you check out the industry. If you do decide to build the network, Pre-Paid Legal does have the most experience in that field. They ran afoul of the regulators a while back but those issues seem to have been settled. Building an mlm is hard work and requires dedication and persistence. Then again doesn’t every business. There are no shortcuts to wealth. Al Dear Boomer Al I enjoy your column but I think you were too hard on the guy last week who wrote to you about greedy owners who aren’t being fair with their employees.There are too many corporate fat-cats out there who give themselves big bonuses and cut hard working people’s wages. Kent Dear Kent Both you and last week’s weenie (kidding) need to get an economic education. If you follow the business news you can see that corporate fat-cats get theirs when they break the law. There are only a handful of cheaters. The majority of corporate executives out there work very hard for their money. These men and women are being paid for getting an education, honing their skills, and being productive to the bottom line. Kent, we all work for a customer. For you, your customer is your boss and his customer is the consumer. Every person is a business unto themselves and they are paid in direct proportion to their ability to serve that customer to the customer’s satisfaction. People who serve customers best make the most money. Many factors come to play. Ability, stamina, and motivation are just a few. If you were the most productive person in your company you would be the highest paid. Tell me something. If you were to apply at your place of employment again today do you think they would hire you based on your production or might they give someone else a shot? Your income will be in proportion to the value you provide regardless of where you work. A company, boss, or worker who does not understand this is doomed to failure. Free enterprise is self-correcting. Unions and such, while they do have their place, tamper with the free enterprise process and protect non-productive workers holding down the wages of those who truly deserve them. Go to the Internet and order a book called “The Incredible Bread Machine”. It will explain to you some simple concepts to help you comprehend a free market. More people must learn basic free enterprise principles or our way of life will die a slow death out of ignorance. In many past dictatorships the first thing that tends to happen when freedom comes is a vibrant black market is exposed. Free unrestricted commerce is the natural order of things. It happens either on the surface or behind the scene. Its consumer driven and money is the measuring stick for who do or do not understand. Any governmental system that stifles a free market is doomed to eventual failure. Thanks for your question. Al Need to buy or sell a house ... check this out! _.·´¯)What's up with this?(¯`·._ One can't help but see what is beginning to happen in Iraq. The fundamentalist powers want Iraq to become a Muslim state much like Iran. Agents from Iran have been fermenting unrest. The place is a tinderbox so it will not be long before we're dealing with one skirmish after another. I hope our young troops are up to it. Iran is on thin ice with Bush already. I hope they are careful. Iraqis don't understand freedom yet. They have been told what to think for thirty years and are still being told what to think behind the scenes. Many are terrified that showing appreciation for our sacrifice will mean problems for them from the radical end that still exists. I feel that this process will take several years and that NATO troops need to come in there and help us police the situation. It seems that the French are about to have their party spoiled. Let's face it. We were not surprised to find a Russian/Iraqi link. The Russians were a totalitarian nation with an expected relationship with other such regimes. The French however were considered a trusted ally. Yes we all recognize the rebellious nature of the Chirac government and France's tendency to do their own thing, but to now discover the depth of the French/Iraqi co-operation even days before the war will be a major error in judgement by the French. This should be fun to watch for a while. As I predicted, the hawkish attack on Powell has begun. Newt fired the first salvo this past week as he roundly criticized the State Department for being out of step and responsible for the international brouhahas over the president's decisions. I for one am not sure how to feel from moment to moment. The reason I say that is because I know there is a fine balance between using diplomacy and being militaristic. Powell's sheepish behavior seems to indicate he is either overwhelmed by his difficult task or has basically decided he's not up to the job. In either case it appears his choice not to run for president was a good one a few years back. He may lack the toughness the job requires. Nobody asked but I think Saudi Arabia is a wisker from revolution. I feel our success in Iraq may fan the desire for freedom throughout the region. If terrorist activity starts to happen in Saudi Arabia you'll know I'm right. The media is tightly controlled there so we will not know for a while. The House of Saud would be well advised to initiate the process themselves if survival is in the cards for them. Just my opinion. Don't like it? So tell me off at ... The Forum at Boomer Journals _.·´¯) Boomer Ha Ha! (¯`·._ "A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." Lana Turner _.·´¯)Attitude Counts! (¯`·._ Attitude counts this week will be more personal. My father-in-law is very ill. We leave shortly to travel back to Rhode Island with the hope that we arrive before he passes. God's will prevails. I have been in this position. Both of my parents are gone. There is very little good one can say about the process. For the dying the end is a welcomed end to the suffering. My father fought it to the end, my mother yearned for the end. I chose the approach to deal with my personal grief personally. People cope with grief in their own way. I chose to fall apart in private and to ignore the critics who like to judge you based on how you seem to be handling things. A person close to death is in a different place and our decisions are no longer relevant to them. Doing what's right is for the living. The dying are in a different world we cannot understand until our time comes, and it is coming. Helen lost a dear aunt just a few weeks ago. Now her Dad lies near death. I will be there for her, but it is a lonely and helpless time. I ran the gammut of emotions from guilt to relief when I was there myself. Someone always thinks you didn't do things right. What truly counts is the many days of your life when the memories are all you have, not the sad ending nobody wants. It would be a mistake to wrap your memories around a death. It is better to wrap them around a life. This is a good hearted man who loved his family, always had a quick wit and was loving and attentive with the kids. If he does pass it will be painful but his life was filled with a good marriage and loving family. He will be missed but this is the natural order of things. He has suffered greatly recently. May God's loving peace be with him and all of us at this difficult time. It's a time to trust in a God who loves us. Some things we are incapable of understanding. If you don't hear from me for a couple of weeks you'll know why. Have fun. It's later than you think. 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