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Participant“New furniture set for living room: $4,600
New flat screen: $2,300
New sound system: $1,700
New Gourmet Grill: $1,800Party to show off all my new gadgets: $700
Total: $11,100”
LOL! It’s official, Al Gore has entered the building.
Participant“New furniture set for living room: $4,600
New flat screen: $2,300
New sound system: $1,700
New Gourmet Grill: $1,800Party to show off all my new gadgets: $700
Total: $11,100”
LOL! It’s official, Al Gore has entered the building.
Participant“New furniture set for living room: $4,600
New flat screen: $2,300
New sound system: $1,700
New Gourmet Grill: $1,800Party to show off all my new gadgets: $700
Total: $11,100”
LOL! It’s official, Al Gore has entered the building.
ParticipantExpect to see this more and more.
I’d surmise that within the next 2 decades, the vast majority of the general fund at the city and state level will be paying for healthcare and retirement benefits for employees. The federal government isn’t far behind since they’ve spent every penny of the SS “trust fund” and there is nothing but a box full of IOU’s that will have to be paid with increased taxes in the future.
It really irks me when so many public employees argue that they are ‘entitled’ to their retirement benefits because they earned less in the public sector. That’s rarely true anymore.
ParticipantExpect to see this more and more.
I’d surmise that within the next 2 decades, the vast majority of the general fund at the city and state level will be paying for healthcare and retirement benefits for employees. The federal government isn’t far behind since they’ve spent every penny of the SS “trust fund” and there is nothing but a box full of IOU’s that will have to be paid with increased taxes in the future.
It really irks me when so many public employees argue that they are ‘entitled’ to their retirement benefits because they earned less in the public sector. That’s rarely true anymore.
ParticipantExpect to see this more and more.
I’d surmise that within the next 2 decades, the vast majority of the general fund at the city and state level will be paying for healthcare and retirement benefits for employees. The federal government isn’t far behind since they’ve spent every penny of the SS “trust fund” and there is nothing but a box full of IOU’s that will have to be paid with increased taxes in the future.
It really irks me when so many public employees argue that they are ‘entitled’ to their retirement benefits because they earned less in the public sector. That’s rarely true anymore.
ParticipantExpect to see this more and more.
I’d surmise that within the next 2 decades, the vast majority of the general fund at the city and state level will be paying for healthcare and retirement benefits for employees. The federal government isn’t far behind since they’ve spent every penny of the SS “trust fund” and there is nothing but a box full of IOU’s that will have to be paid with increased taxes in the future.
It really irks me when so many public employees argue that they are ‘entitled’ to their retirement benefits because they earned less in the public sector. That’s rarely true anymore.
ParticipantExpect to see this more and more.
I’d surmise that within the next 2 decades, the vast majority of the general fund at the city and state level will be paying for healthcare and retirement benefits for employees. The federal government isn’t far behind since they’ve spent every penny of the SS “trust fund” and there is nothing but a box full of IOU’s that will have to be paid with increased taxes in the future.
It really irks me when so many public employees argue that they are ‘entitled’ to their retirement benefits because they earned less in the public sector. That’s rarely true anymore.
Participant“We’re talking about an entire course in school when that’s the 2 second lesson right there: “Don’t buy what you can’t afford.” Pretty simple.”
I’m sure this has already been posted here (maybe not) but it dovetails nicely with Cbad’s comment…
http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/snl-skit-dont-buy-stuff-you-cant-afford-252491.php
Participant“We’re talking about an entire course in school when that’s the 2 second lesson right there: “Don’t buy what you can’t afford.” Pretty simple.”
I’m sure this has already been posted here (maybe not) but it dovetails nicely with Cbad’s comment…
http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/snl-skit-dont-buy-stuff-you-cant-afford-252491.php
Participant“We’re talking about an entire course in school when that’s the 2 second lesson right there: “Don’t buy what you can’t afford.” Pretty simple.”
I’m sure this has already been posted here (maybe not) but it dovetails nicely with Cbad’s comment…
http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/snl-skit-dont-buy-stuff-you-cant-afford-252491.php
Participant“We’re talking about an entire course in school when that’s the 2 second lesson right there: “Don’t buy what you can’t afford.” Pretty simple.”
I’m sure this has already been posted here (maybe not) but it dovetails nicely with Cbad’s comment…
http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/snl-skit-dont-buy-stuff-you-cant-afford-252491.php
Participant“We’re talking about an entire course in school when that’s the 2 second lesson right there: “Don’t buy what you can’t afford.” Pretty simple.”
I’m sure this has already been posted here (maybe not) but it dovetails nicely with Cbad’s comment…
http://consumerist.com/consumer/clips/snl-skit-dont-buy-stuff-you-cant-afford-252491.php
Participant“Or maybe it was because someone taught you about finances? People aren’t born knowing this stuff, so someone must have along the way”
Nope. Dad was a fuck up and somehow my mom managed to raise 6 kids on what he didn’t piss away on get rich quick schemes. Our family never used credit cards and I never really had a savings account growing up (I did but there wasn’t more than a few hundred in it).
I guess wearing hand me downs and toughskins with the knees patched teaches you that having the “in” clothes isn’t all that important. I never had a polo shirt until I graduated college, I never had penny loafers when they were all the rage.
I grew up lower middle class and was never really taught much about money, mostly because we never really had any.
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