Made Personal: Outs

Bailouts, Buyouts, Cashouts — can they be personalized somehow?

Of course!

I thought I had two vehicles that qualified for the Cash-for-Clunkers program. Turns out only one of them qualifies, thanks to the miles per gallon criteria. (My Honda is old and has over 300,000 miles on it — but it still does better than 18 mpg.)

It also turns out the program has been mayhem. And has apparently already run out of money.

But never fear — I hear it may be re-funded with twice the original amount. Maybe they’ll also change two key provisions:

• The program applies only to those buying brand new vehicles.
• To qualify, a vehicle must get less than 18 mpg.

Actually, I think I would prefer it became a true Cash-for-Clunkers program — just give me a flat $4000 for my clunker and be done with it. Now there’s a buyout I could consider! No wait — better yet, cancel all such programs and slash my taxes.

Speaking of buyouts, maybe someone could buy out my business also. I launched it on the first of January way back in 1998 to support my family as I worked at my online ministry, which I started in mid-1995. Well, my business has boomed to the extent that my online ministry has pretty much gone dormant. So now I have a vision (I think): Sell my business for enough to pay off my debts and leave us with money for six years of No-Income-Needed living. Then move to “our” mission in Mexico (to help out in the church there as well as to increase the volume of the bang for my buck) to operate my original online ministry.

Seems like I had more to say on this Outs subject back when I first thought of it, but I don’t remember anymore. So I’ve grown tired of this post.

Time out.

Bye.

Update: Speaking of freebies and handouts, I see I still haven’t won $1000 from Circuit City. In fact, nobody from Oregon has. What’s with that?!