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Old 01-22-2008, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Caoineag View Post
She was hired to write BECAUSE she is bad with money.
Well, she certainly delivered as advertised!

I'm fine with taking a real, fallable "average joe" perspective, but I would expect progress and responsibility from her over the years. Instead, she continues to make questionable choices and then uses a widely published column to try to justify them.

I think that's dangerous, since there are people that will take it as legitimate financial advice--and if it's OK for her to do it, it must be OK for them.

Seriously, what would you think if she were hired to write a diet column and started every piece with "Well, I ate another Double Whopper combo today, but I got 25% of my daily calcium from the cheese, and 3 grams of fiber from the fries, so really it was a good thing..."
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