Sunday, April 11, 2004
I love Suze Orman. No really I do in a sadistic sort of way. She has built a large fan base off nothing. She gives simple advice to her hero worshippers. She's like the guys on talk radio. All her calls should start with, "Suze, I thinky you hung the moon, and I do everything you tell me to do, so what should I do with this 10,000 dollars I've got in the bank?"
Basically, my opinion is, that all callers into her show, or talk radio, are "I'm not sure I can make an opinion on this. Can you tell me what it should be?" Well, the truth is that she gives the same advice as every one else. There is nothing new about anything she says.
So I was reading on the web and came across one of her articles. I decided to read it. There is one thing in it that cracked me up...
Wait a minute! $50,000 dollars? No way, Jose! I've known people to pay less for a house. Heck, at carmax I can get four year old Mazda Miata for less than 18,000. What other car would I want? A little roadster like that would be my dream car. Heck, I could buy a used Beetle for less than that.
Sometimes I hear these gurus say this stuff and wonder who the heck are they talking to? I couldn't spend 50,000 dollars for a car. I'd be a fool to do so. I'm not sure that I could pay 20,000 dollars for a car.
Basically, my opinion is, that all callers into her show, or talk radio, are "I'm not sure I can make an opinion on this. Can you tell me what it should be?" Well, the truth is that she gives the same advice as every one else. There is nothing new about anything she says.
So I was reading on the web and came across one of her articles. I decided to read it. There is one thing in it that cracked me up...
Do you suffer from red-light envy? You know what I'm talking about…you're sitting at a traffic light in your reliable-yet-boring $18,000 car and you see a beautiful new $50,000 car idling next to you that sends your envy gene into overdrive. All of a sudden you have to have a nice car. Stop right there, my friends!
Wait a minute! $50,000 dollars? No way, Jose! I've known people to pay less for a house. Heck, at carmax I can get four year old Mazda Miata for less than 18,000. What other car would I want? A little roadster like that would be my dream car. Heck, I could buy a used Beetle for less than that.
Sometimes I hear these gurus say this stuff and wonder who the heck are they talking to? I couldn't spend 50,000 dollars for a car. I'd be a fool to do so. I'm not sure that I could pay 20,000 dollars for a car.
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