Sadly, too many people believe that the successful in our society got that way through luck. So their financial plan is based not on earning and investing money, but waiting for their fairy godmother to show up.
Some miracle roads to riches:
The Lottery
What better way to get rich, but to play the lottery. Even though the odds are 200 million to one, somebodys got to win right? Why not you?
The ancillary to this is gambling. Go to Vegas or Atlantic City and blow the paycheck at the blackjack table or, even better, the roulette wheel.
Or go to the track and try to hit the trifecta.
Most gamblers will blow their winnings away sooner or later. They really arent in it for the money.
But lottery winners, those who get checks for millions of dollars, apparently have the same problem. I have read that the majority of lottery winners blow all that money away with five years or so.
Get Rich Quick Schemes
You get a letter in the mail or you see an ad on the internet. Just send in a few bucks or a few hundred bucks or a few thousand bucks and you too will be raking in $35,000 a week while you lounge on the...