Ben Stein Dreemz


Start Saving Today, Your Life Depends On It


M


oney is important. it’s incredibly important. It’s as important as blood, as some might say. I off er here a few anecdotes.


Today, as I went through my emails, I came across


four from longtime female friends. Two of them were “girlfriends” before I was married to my goddess wife. The theme, the common theme, of all of those


letters was suicide. Two of them were planning to commit suicide within the next few months. One of the two was


a tall, willowy blond of about 50. She was born in the American Midwest. Her husband, in his early 60s and born in the Soviet Union, had died within the past six months of a rapid cancer. It happened so fast


and was so hopelessly untreatable that she was burying him before she really even knew him. They had no children. Her


child support. The woman was worried about money — and I do not blame her one bit: Worry about money causes suicides. Now, I am bringing these instances up for one


reason: Fear of fi nancial insecurity is a prime cause of suicide. It should not be so, but it is. All around this great country, men and women kill themselves because they are terrifi ed about money. How do you live if you are out of money or even seriously short of money? Where does the money come from? I bring this up for


a reason: In recent months, one close cousin and two dear pals killed themselves because they were terrifi ed about money. They are not living any longer. It’s really simple, but it’s also really horrible.


All around this


husband apparently left her with only a small amount of life insurance. Her fears about running out of money were monumental. The second came from a Sino- American woman whose mother had been born in Tientsin, now a major city in northern China. Tientsin was a German micro- colony before World War I. When the Germans lost that war, it became an international city, famed for its beer. The woman I knew had moved to Los Angeles


great country, men and women kill


themselves because they are terrifi ed of running out of


money. It’s a prime cause of suicide.


before she was 25. She is now 40, or thereabouts. She’s divorced and has two children, whom she describes as hardworking, disciplined kids. She showed me their photos and they were good-looking kids. The mother had recently become divorced from an American dentist. He was not paying the court-ordered


44 NEWSMAX | JULY 2023 Men and women, there is a


lesson here: You have to save money. It’s not an option. You have to do it. You can save in the form of real estate, i.e., buy a home or a condo and live in it while you accumulate equity in it. You can buy it in the form of common stock. That means if you’re smart you get huge tax advantages, you have a roof over your head, and you have something to leave to your kids when you die. You can buy an annuity which


pays you money every month or every quarter until you die.


However you do it, you must do it. There is nothing


more vital than saving money. As Warren Buff ett says, you don’t spend and then save whatever is left. You save fi rst. Please, my fellow Americans: Save, save, save.


Start today.


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