JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for October 13, 2014

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I think he was referring to verse 19 about usury!

@tsandlHotel visitors looking for a free souvenir.

What extra money most families ours included do not have extra cash laying around.

Considering how little interest banks pay today, you might as well stash your money in a book or under the mattress as anyplace else.

@Dani RiceI am using it to pay down the charge card balance; I get better interest return that way.

I actually looked up Deuteronomy 23 and it doesn’t say much about money, except not to charge interest to an Israelite, but only to a foreigner.

@LarryWhere are you getting .78% interest, my accounts are only getting .10 %.

Well, David’s convinced me. I’m going to live in a box and do absolutely nothing except eat bland food and work (and when I have free time and feel extravagant, I’ll sleep and maybe even poop). That way, by the time I’m dead I’ll be rich! Yay! Surely a joyless existence will guarantee entrance into a Heaven for which I have no solid evidence, right?

Deuteronomy Chapter 23 begins with – well, umm. You’d better look it up yourselves, Verse 19 does get into charging interest, but my first thought was that Robb Armstrong kinda winged it when he used it in the 3rd panel.