Hi all,
Dom’s spot on. I have a motto that if I can’t pay for it … then I don’t need it. (Housing aside).
In fact about the only thing my Dad ever used to have to say about me (that was good) was that “He doesn’t owe anything to anybody”.
And its not been that hard, you just gotta instead of setting aside whatever % of money you do now to pay credit cards etc … put that money aside so that when its time you can pay upfront and screw that high % loan stuff.
plus paying cash you can often get a much better deal, with the exception of health care. This is true … there’s a lot of doctors that won’t touch you if you don’t have insurance because they make SO much more from insurance than they do if they just charged you out in front.
Why is that you may wonder? Because nobody has the (male parts) to look another human being in the eye and say to them, “oh by the way, we’ll be charging you the equivalent of everything you own for the privlidege of dying a little less quickly and if we’re wrong and you die before we can get all that money out of you … no problem. We’ll just bill your kids.”.
Anyway about the money … you know what … I’d have no problem with spending the trillion dollars if they’d bring me W’s head on a stick. I just cannot believe how much damage this moron has done to the country with only 2 terms.
I realize its not ALL his fault … actually truth be told its his father I blame. You don’t blame the monkey if he picks up a gun and shoots somebody. You blame the person who put the monkey in a position to get a hold of the gun and W would NEVER have even been in politics let alone prez … if poppa didn’t have so much damn power and obvious apothy towards what’s best for his country.
And can you imagine what this Jeb must be like? If W was the best of the two to run for high office I am thinking to myself the next in line must be a real peach.
so what’s going on while our gov is deciding whether to spend this money or not?
I mean it seems to me that life is going on … so how does this work? If they vote no on the next round then it doesn’t pass for sure? and if that happens then the economy crashes?
btw: the first of this thread there was much talk about the “fat cats” the fat cats are the actually fat rats who have all ready jumped off the sinking ship with … well I read where one of them was suppose to get 100 million and was only able to get out with 29 million.
You know how my heart bleeds for him?
These are the people who not only should not get anything … but they ought to be put in jail … and not the vacation spa they call “minimum security” but in with the big boys. After all they were big enough to play with the big boys in the money segment.
And they damn sure did more damage than most those in the max prisons.
as somebody mentioned … those “fat cats” will just go on to live lives of luxury while not signing any more checks for the average joe.
I suppose there’s justice in Karma if nothing else. Perhaps Dick Cheney could take them all hunting? ……sigh.