Monday, July 27, 2015

The Most Advertised is Suspect

I think anything you have to advertise too much is probably a bad deal.
Do you notice excessive advertising in live and recorded phone calls and TV ads?  During the 2000s, we got excessive calls to refinance our mortgages. We all know how that turned out. The only home refinancing that made sense was getting out of the 30 year loan and replacing it with a 15 year loan.
Lately, we’ve been told to buy gold and silver, but these prices are in deflation right now and are being manipulated. Inflation is being held in check by commodity deflation, shipwrecked economies, massive government debt, low demand, depressed consumer net income and the tanking of the current corrupt global economy. The massive government debt and money printing by the Fed will result in the 25 year-long global depression we are entering now.
Reverse mortgages on our homes is the second most advertised new thing, but having a house paid off offers more value to most seniors.  It is the big asset we can turn into cash, if we need cash to buy groceries.
We also get calls for Obamacare, which is a really bad deal. Most of us are better off self-insuring our healthcare.  
TV ads are full of drugs for everything and health services.  When it comes to these, less is better.
We get calls for cruises, security systems, donations and other things. I always pass.
During election cycles, we get calls, letters and emails from candidates asking for money. If we restricted campaign contributions to their prospective voters, we could get politicians to work for us and political campaigns would cost a lot less.
I always wondered how monopolies can justify spending money on ads and how large corporations can justify spending money on donations, public relations and political campaign contributions.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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