I saw a Zen saying on a bulletin board the other day that read, “Jump and the net will appear.”  My first thought was, “I’ll bet whoever wrote that was a monk who never had a 401(k) during this economy.”  I wasn’t entirely proud of my reaction.  It came from the same place of panic that I have been warning against since the first mortgage company realized they had been granting loans to people who couldn’t afford a bagel. 

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