[PEN-L:12050] Re: Big mouth

[MScoleman@xxxxxxx]

Max,  aha, I misunderstood.  Well, when I give money to relatives (and
understand, the finances of the 'spinster' sister (niece, aunt, daughter) are
always under someones' greedy scrutiny) I consider it a dead loss--and I have
been proven correct in my cynicism well more than half the time.  As to
incompetent relatives--when I took a year's unpaid leave from my job to write
my dissertation for the PhD, my mother called two of my brothers and
suggested that the family consider legal action to claim I was mentally
incapable of handling my own financial affairs and have one of my brothers
appointed as some sort of legal care taker for me.  To my brothers' credit,
after they scraped themselves off the floor from laughing so hard, they
called and we've since made it a family joke.
Of course, in all this, I have been gainfully employed since the age of 14
(I'm 49) and financially independent of my family since age 17.
maggie coleman mscoleman@xxxxxxx
In a message dated 97-08-30 17:21:53 EDT, Max writes:

>Since this has come up again, let me say I was
>talking about the futility of giving money to
>people you know who already have an
>adequate income (cash or in-kind) and who don't
>have the capacity to make good use of money
>(e.g., people like my brother and others who
>are simply not capable of caring for
>themselves).