@SpatzieLover With all due respect (and you are way way way way smarter than my, oh like 73 year old aunt) you’re talking about something different than her. You’re more talking about economical theories and how the consumer chooses to spend thier disposable money. You are right, but nowhere near the simplistic way of which she speaks. She talks like she really does believe that there are, like, three men in some office somewhere who determines who should make what and then distribute the money as they see fit. With her, there is no subtext, it is what she says just how she says it. She alienated some family members who won’t even talk to her anymore, and after she made this statement, it was all I could do to go into the next room and correct her. Stuff like that just gets her going more and then there’s no stopping her.
She’s also the one who thinks that a million dollars is a lot of money. Sure, it is, but she thinks if she has a million dollars then that will get her maids, butlers, a mansion on the hill, a fleet of limos and a chauffeur for each. I guess she doesn’t realize that a million dollars may, just MAY, be a good downpayment for that mansion on the hill. If that’s not enough to convince you of her thinking process, I will quote for you what she said in late 2000 during the whole Presidential voting thing. She was speaking about a friend, and my aunt’s quote is “Al Gore should be the President of the states he won, and Bush should be the President of the states he won. That’s the smartest thing I ever heard.” Yes, she said the smartest thing she ever heard. I just walked in the house at this time, and wasn’t in the mood to egg her on. If I were, though, I’d ask if it is the case for the 2000 election, why not all elections? Afterall, no President had ever won all states, though Ronald Reagan sure gave it a good sporting chance in 1984.