One More Questionnaire for Libs/Cons/Libertarians, etc....?

Question

1) What do you spend per month on cable tv, cell phone (unless you don't have a land line), video games and gambling (including lottery) combined?

2) Do you max out on your 401-K contribution? ($15K per year)

3) Do you at least contribute enough to get your employer's maximum match (or do you say 'no thanks' to free money)?

4) Do you max out on your IRA or Roth IRA every year?

5) How many hours a week do you spend watching CNBC or Bloomberg?

6) How many hours a week do you spend watching all other television shows combined?

7) Do you read the Wall Street Journal, Investors Business Daily, Barron's or other investor publication?

8) Do you have a brokerage account?

9) Do you know that trades cost $7-$12 at most brokerages now, even for limit orders, regardless of order size (i.e., nobody is frozen out of investing)?

10) Do you know what a DRIP is?

11) What ideological camp are you in (Lib, Con, Libertarian, other, etc...)?

Answer 1

1) $75
2) Yes
3) Yes
4) No
5) I don't watch network news, I read papers.
6) 20
7) The Wall Street Journal
8) Just opened one a few months ago.
9) Yes
10) No
11) Liberal

Answer 2

That is 11 more questions. Not one.

1. About $140 for cable, internet, phone, cell. No video games or gambling.

2. No. I contribute 10% of my income. Not enough to max it out.

3. No match ;-(

4. No. If I have some unexpected money, I've been known to put some in.

5. 0. I don't know how anyone listens or watches Bloomberg. Everytime I put on Bloomberg radio, it's always commercials.

6. 15

7 WSJ from time to time, but not a regular reader.

8. Yes.

9. Yes, I pay $7 per trade.

10. Dividend reinvestment plan. Stock dividends are re-invested into buying more shares.

11. Conservative Libertarian.

Answer 3

1. $80 but no gambling whatsoever.
2. yep
3. yep
4. yep

5. under an hour. There are better sources of financial info.
Eric Kobren't Funds Net Insight, www.Stein-Demuth.com and others. Sometimes I watch that Kramer guy rant and rave about stocks but that's for entertainment only.

6. More than I'd like to admit. But I listen to a lot of talk radio. Borders, Language, Culture!!!! Vic Mackey on The Shield certainly has his personal thing together.

7. See #5 above. Barron's isn't bad but I am a value oriented mutual fund investor for the most part.

8. No. I think they gave me an e-trade account as an employee bonus, but I haven't used it yet. They just want me to buy company stock.

9. So, you work for a brokerage house and you are looking for customers? That's fine. I'm trying to drum up support for the Libertarian Reform Caucus.

10. My faucet used to drip, but I fixed it myself and saved $90. This is good old fashioned American Self-Reliance at its best.

Austrian Economics and Austrian Firearms, I say! Three cheers for Friedrich Hayek (Road to Serfdom) and Gaston Glock (inventor of the Glock-19) Kill a commie for mommie.

11. I am a conservative libertarian who is registed Libertarian. But the LP is too rigidly ideological to make an impact in the larger political scene. The LP is more of a supper club for introverts than a viable political party. I have written several essays on this subject. They are on www.ReformTheLP.org

Answer 4

1) $0 on cable, TV is not worth paying for. $~50 o cell, $0 on video games and gambling.

2) No, but I should.

3) Ok, Ok.

4) No

5) 0

6) maybe 2 or 3, I only watch PBS.

7) No.

8) No.

9) Yes.

10) Dividend reinvestment?

11) Liberal Libertarian.

Answer 5

1. Cable/internet/phone = $95, PDA = $60, I don't have time for gambling or video games.
2. 10%; what I can afford to put in.
3. Yes
4. - 10. That's why I have an accountant.
11. I lean liberal

Answer 6

Could you tell me what you are collecting this information for? Inquiring minds want to know...

Conservative.