I’m not broke, I'm just financially challenged (standard:humor, 901 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Sep 11 2011	Views/Reads: 2944/1876	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
As I was listening to the president give his speech on the country's economy last week I was simultaneously trying to balance my checkbook. Math was never my strong suit. In fact, when it comes to math, I do not wear a suit at all. I would wear my birthda

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some of the people in prison. After all, there may be former 
politicians who are locked up for some scandalous activity they were 
caught at. Who wants to spend their time with that crowd? 

Just as I was sinking deeper into the slough of despondency, my wife, as
usual, came to my rescue. If I gave her a nickel for every bright idea 
she has come up with in our married life I would be broke. Which, by 
the way, maybe why I am broke now. 

Her amazing solution was simply this, "We're not broke, we're just
financially challenged." 

Why do I never come up with all of these brilliant ideas? Being broke is
one thing but being financially challenged is something altogether 
different. I do not want to be broke. Now, thanks to my wife, I am no 
longer broke I am simply financially challenged. 

That sounds so much better. I worried my heart sick thinking I was broke
when in reality I was merely financially challenged. I wonder if I 
could somehow get this message to our dear president. If I can get him 
a message I would simply say this, "Mr. President, our country is not 
broke as you are insinuating. We are simply financially challenged." 

Everybody has his or her own solution to problems. Especially if it is a
political problem. I like how the Bible puts it. "There is a way which 
seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" 
(Proverbs 14:12 KJV). 

Someone said it like this, "a rose by any other name is still a rose." 


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