It's so glaringly obvious to a 9-year-old! Honestly, do kids at this magic age pay any attention whatsoever to real-estate or market demand, the subsequent downfall and whatever else has hindered our nation so terribly as of late? I think it's safe to assume that generally, kids this age don't give much contemplation to a world that extends much beyond their own backyards, their computers and
Poptropica, and their best friends. But see, 9-year-olds don't have to concern themselves with the foibles of Wall Street, the dire reports from the Fed or the blame-game being played in the land of Real Estate. 9-year-olds have superior common sense!
Emi is reading
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Moving Day, which apparently prompted her thoughts about real-estate and economics:
- Before people build more houses, they should make sure there are people who are going to move into those houses, so that they don't just have houses that nobody will live in.
- When houses are being built, they should recycle everything out of the old houses first and use whatever they can from the old houses in the new houses and tear them (the old - circa 1975? - houses) down so there aren't just houses with no one to buy them.
- People should just buy what they really need and not use all their money to get stuff they don't really need so they won't run out of money.
Third-graders could have kept us out of our current economic mess. Maybe if we listen to them, they can get us out of it, too!
2 comments:
My daughter had a friend sleep over once who brought the rule book for sleepovers...BROTHER!...I didn't know there were so many things we were supposed to do for her.
So are you guys being hit pretty hard too?? NV is definitely one of the worst off! We are anxiously awaiting to see if Scott will have a job after next year. 50% budget cuts for higher education in a two year period is kind of daunting.
Out of the mouths of babes.
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