"You know, my kids would be with us, and we would be, like, fine, " she said.

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Of course, we suspect most folks would be just fine with the double-digit percentage historical returns during the period on value stocks.

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That would be fine if we were looking at a positive upward trend, say in competitiveness.

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Then, Paul and I would go on holiday, or John and I would go on holidays, and we'd be fine.

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So there should be enough money -- and if we were wise then all that money would be there and then we -- we're going to start running a deficit as the baby boomers start retiring, but we would have accumulated all this money and everything would be fine.

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It would be a bright, fine day with "more sunshine than we have seen in some time".

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"We paid the fine, and part of the reason we agreed to settle was we would be allowed to continue to do work for the government, " she said.

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This would be fine if students all learned in the same way--but, as we know from our own experience, they do not.

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Of course, as we know with Medicare, if the government wants to pick up the tab for health care, most Americans would be fine with that, as long as they don't have to pay for it eventually.

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Like the time we found The Princess Diaries on both the outbound and return trips of another cross-country flight, which would be fine for a plane full of seventh graders, but not for grown-ups travelling on business.

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