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Important Stuff and the Imaginary Rulemakers

The Paul Truesdell Podcast

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Paul Grant Truesdell, J.D., AIF, CLU, ChFC, RFC
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Rough Notes

Important Stuff and the Imaginary Rulemakers

By Paul Truesdell

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, ladies and germs; in reference to those of us who successfully refused DNA altering, myocarditis, enhancing, genetic, modifying liquids. In other words, the germy super spreaders responsible for the collapse of the world’s population five years ago.  

Where was I? Let’s see, I digressed with my welcome. Now, where was I going before I lost it? 

Oh yeah, now I remember, I had a boomer moment. 

Ready?

Let’s get real for a second. We are living in a world governed by imaginary people with imaginary rules who somehow got real power. You know who I mean—the clipboard people. The rule whisperers. The bureaucratic sorcerers behind the curtain, like that little twerp in The Wizard of Oz. Except he got caught. Today’s rulemakers? They never get caught. They just keep moving the finish line and asking if you brought the right form—on recycled paper, single-sided, in triplicate, notarized, and oh, by the way, do you have your Social Security card?

My Social Security card.
Sir, do you have it? No, I do not. I have not seen that thing since Reagan was in office and MTV played music. Maybe—just maybe—it is in the box. You know the one. The mythical important stuff box. We all have one. It is probably in a garage, or in a closet, or in a rental storage unit you forgot you still pay for. Somewhere, there is a cardboard sarcophagus filled with W-2s from 1979, expired passports, a child’s tooth in a ziplock, and a floppy disk labeled “TAXES.”

You lose stuff. I lose stuff. We all lose stuff. Because there is too much damn stuff. The older you get, the more stuff you accumulate. And here is the kicker: the older the stuff, the more likely someone will eventually call it “essential.”
“Do you have a copy of the original mortgage from your first house?”
Do I look like I carry papyrus scrolls? No, I do no