401-k retirement plans, what does it all mean?

[William]

Retirement plans compared...

If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.
If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.

But, if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all the beer, then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment advise is
to drink heavily and recycle.

This is called the 401-Keg Plan.

 

[Electrohacker]

or... you can just buy a bruiser and set it in a closet.

:tmb:tami:trk

 

[HawnMT]

...now if i could just stop using the money I get from recycling to buy more beer.......

 

[Locoboy5150]

That's probably true!

 

[hojin]

dose that translate into soda i dont drink beer

 

[joe]

yeah, no beer here either...
but i think soda is cheaper, right?
so it should be an even better investment!
:willy

 

[hojin]

well here in michigan i can buy a 12 pack of big k for 3.39 and that includes deposit

 

[Loaded_Heavy]

alot of ppl here love the green bottled stuff and I don't think you get too much for recycling those beer bottles as with plastic bottled waters and soda cans so soda & bottled waters would be a true winner down here in HI. I think it's also the same up in the states? I remember seeing alot of the homeless pushing shopping carts with mainly pop cans and not really glass bottles. I'm sure though if you're tankin down can'd beer the benifits are as would be with soda cans. heh

 

[hojin]

in MI its all carbonated beverages carry a deposit

 

[Loaded_Heavy]

so you folks base it off of the drink itself? I thought it based on the material. I know down here you won't get as much for a glass beer bottle as you would with a plastic bottle.

 

[william g]

I don't know exactly what everyone else is talking about exactly, but do know metals, recycling aluminum copper ect has gone WAY up in price.

Used to be it was change per pound to recycle most, now it's in dollars, aluminum is unreal, copper even more so.

 

[Loaded_Heavy]

We've had so many copper theft down here it's unbelievable at some of the things their going through just to rip the copper wiring/cables from.

 

[speedythecat]

We've had so many copper theft down here it's unbelievable at some of the things their going through just to rip the copper wiring/cables from.

The place my wife works for was tearing down the old mall in town. Even with a tall fence around it, they had a 0000 of a time with people trying to steal copper wire. Had to end up using a barbed wire fence.