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Joel's Blog of Truth

Warm in Wisconsin? And Clark's cheapness gets the best of him.

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Joel
@ April 28, 2008 11:49 AM
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Clark and I had a great visit with our affiliate in Appleton, Wisconsin this past week. We want to say thanks to everyone that came out to the book signing and to Clark's speech. Everyone was so kind to us there. And guess what? It was around 70 degrees the whole time. This was my first visit with Clark to the cheese state but every previous visit from what I am told he braved blizzards. I must bring good luck.

At the rental counter we had a few choices of cars. We could either get a Chrysler, a Chrysler, a Mustang, or a Chrysler. Since Clark and I are pretty manly, I said that the Mustang was the right choice. We toured America's dairyland in a bright blue Stang. He wasn't too fond of it but I think that secretly by the end of the trip he had bonded with it.

Everyone who has listened to the show for a while knows that Clark refuses to pay for parking ever. There was a parking lot right next to our hotel that cost $1 to park. Not 10 or 5 but ONE dollar. I'm cheap too. I don't like to pay for parking. Its $1 though. But since he is Clark Howard he decides to park a 1/2 mile down the road across the railroad tracks. In the morning he gets to the car and there was a ticket on it. A $25 parking ticket. He tried his best to fight the ticket but there is an ordinance that doesn't allow parking from 2-5am in the whole city of Appleton. No dice. He has to pay, plus an extra $1 processing fee. I'm sure he still doesn't find this that funny, but it made me chuckle a bit.


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  • 1 dollar
    Joel, in a few years y'all might travel back to the cheese state,check local ordinances, and if you have to pay a dollar to park, remember you can buy a cheese head hat for 25. (tell Christa i have a run on sentence because of little baby sleeping in left arm.)
  • What is a dollar?
    Joel,
    Your blog is the Blog of Truth and I just wanted to shed some light on the dollar Clark didn't want to pay for parking.
    Money is used as a medium to trade human labor. The labor being traded is goods that are made or services that are rendered. The value of the labor is determined by how much demand for the labor there is in the market. One person trades the value of their labor for the value of another person’s labor and use money to make that exchange happen more easily.
    If the value of the money being exchanged is changed then the markets get disrupted because the value of the labor being traded is harder to determine (Like someone constantly changing a scale from pounds to kilograms.). Presently the value of money is decreased when the government and the Federal Reserve pump more money into the system than there is labor to trade for it. With more money in the system the value of the money decreases and it causes inflation because the markets try to correct themselves back to the true value of the labor being traded.
    The supply of money needs to be stabilized in order to correct the cycles of inflation or deflation. If the supply of labor in the market increases then the supply of money to trade that labor would need to increase so that the value of the labor could be accurately priced in the market. Likewise if the labor in the market decreases then the supply of money should decrease so that the value of the decreased labor can be accurately priced in the market.
    The only way to accomplish this is to make strict rules to tie the supply of money to the supply of labor. A way this could be done is to tie the money supply to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If GDP goes up 3% then increase the money supply by 3%. The opposite would be if GDP goes down 3% then decrease the money supply by 3%. This would stabilize the dollar and almost eliminate its change in value over time. The value of labor being traded will always change but the value of the medium to exchange that labor would remain more constant under this method.
    With a fixed money supply based on the GDP, paying a dollar for parking now will be pretty close to a dollar for the same parking in the future.
    Just a little bit of truth for the Blog of Truth.

    William
    ineonovo@yahoo.com

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