Are all cons doing a poor job managing their finances?

I just bought a boat off my neighbor who lives about 2 miles away. Its 2005 Tracker Panfish 16 with 25 hp Mercury 4 stroke and trailer for $1,500.The NADA on this boat is more than $3,000. He came to me because I am not a "liberal" and own a successful small business that has giving him a few Saturdays of extra work the past two years. He knew I was thinking about a boat a month ago.


I'm not a liberal. I am a target and trap/skeet shooter, I ENJOY blowing away varmints with my 17 hmr. I fish. I own a small business. Iam careful with my money. I don't put a high priority on politics. I work hard and play hard. That doesn't leave time for politics.


This person is a victim of his own overspending. I know last year he traded in a 2004 Tahoe, that he still owed money on, because the 14 mpg beast was breaking him. To me, that just makes no sense that he had it in the first place.


I've been to his house. The windows are old and drafty. The $7,000 he spent on a boat in 2005 could have been better spent on new doors and windows I suppose.


I own slightly under $1,000 worth of guns, I would say I have a lot of guns. I have a Mossberg 500- $300, a Mossberg ATR100- $450 with a scope, a Stevens 310 17 hmr, which was about $150 with scope, used.


When I bought the used Stevens off this same person last year, he was selling about 1/3 of his gun collection. At the time, he have 20+ rifles and shotguns as well as 4 pistols. I'd say easily $10,000 worth of guns and ammo in the house with bad windows.


I wouldn't call him good with money. It may very well be a coincidence he's a loyal conservative.


He talks about Obama's "reckless" spending. He's one to talk. He sees no problem with the 1.3 trillion or so Bush blew on the war against terrorism. All that money, no bin ladden, no end in sight. Bailing out AIG, Enron and so many other bums in the Bush years was good?


Exactly what does my neighbor know about fixing the economy? All I see is someone in way too much debt, selling things off for way too little just to keep afloat another month.|||Your question is too long for me to read, but to answer your question, I'll go out on a limb and say maybe.|||That's nice. You are a good shopper.





I am paying off my mortgage in full the end of this month (22 years early) and I pay both of my sons' college tuition in full by writing checks out of my checking account.|||Of course not. This is a personal money management issue and not a political one. Also, some people were doing fine last year and not now. Or 2 years ago and not now. Depends on where you live.





It also sounds like it might be "a guy thing."|||Nope.





I'm doing just fine. Fine enough to buy a new American made car last year. I make all of my bills with plenty left over. I live within my means.





Not like my wife's liberal friends. They are always broke. When they sold their house they bought a motorhome a dunebuggy and a fancy trailer for it. They don't have any of that now they blew all of their money and lost their new house. Now they rent.|||I'm doing just fine, thank you|||I believe this is called anecdotal evidence. You cite one case %26amp; apply it to all conservatives. You are a liberal...|||Let me see if I have this right. You have a neighbor who happens to be a conservative but can't manage his own finances very well so therefore all conservatives are like him? And you own a business and are successful? Hmmmmm. Amazing.