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The treasure and good will of the nation have been sold and re-sold.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Come to think of it, the Fed might as well increase the funds rate to that level, as the banks don't seem to want to lend money anyway.
Brzezinski said she gave the mugger the $6 in cash she had with her, adding that he asked her for $20 and said something along the lines of "Give me money and nothing will happen."
Imagine!
The nerve of that starving homeless guy when Mikka barely carries soda machine money...Or, maybe it's the change from that $12 mocha frap she's always sipping?
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/18/msn...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4g8Azg9Jco
By law no one has to accept the new rates. They can decline the increase and close the account. Then it has to be paid off instead of being carried month to month. What would happen if everyone started closing their accounts?
On another point, If the first job doesn't pay the bills then it's time to get a second or a third.
Too many have the attitude that they deserve it all and don't want to work for it. It's the entitlement mentality that irritates me. They go into debt thinking they deserve it then whine when they can't pay it back because their one job doesn't earn them enough.
Medical catastrophies aside, debtors need to put the xbox down and get another job or two or three. ( I've had as many as five at one time.) Stop buying things you cant afford and stop making everyone else pay your bills. If you're only working 32-40 hours a week you need more work, not more government handouts.
Stop smoking the cigarrettes. That's money just going up in smoke. I see so many people that can afford to burn $10-15 a day ($300 month) or more in cigs but then complain they can't make ends meet.
Work isn't a bad thing. No one ever died from having more than one employer.
Pfeh.
Sure people need to live within their means, however, try having no health care or a kid in college and earn minimum wage. Try not to be tempted when they send credit cards to our kids when they are 12 and 13 years old. America is a credit card nation when America finally gets enough they will stop voting against their best interests and put senators and congressmen/women in Washington to represent our interests. Isn't our lobbying money enough after all we foot the bill for every pork barrel, illegal war, new weapon, war on whatever they can dream up. Yeah I am talking about our taxes. We pay trilliions in taxes and for some reason it doesn't get an ounce of attention from the crew in the nation's capitol. Personally i use Diner's Club. it has to be paid in full every month. No interest if you pay in full. I live within what I can afford to pay at the end of the month.
I, for one, want to hear Citibank squeal.
They could care less about the people as long as fatcat lobbyists are lining their pockets.
When I called to close the account they had all kinds of low rates to offer me. I said sorry to late
then default on your credit card debts entirely!
so what?
it's not as if a bad FICA score is what it used to be.
starve the beast until it dies, that's what I say.
Also, in cases of identity theft, the credit card companies make the merchant eat the loss, even if the merchant has taken every precaution (such as calling the credit card company before the sale to make sure the customer is legit). If the loss were to be passed onto the credit card companies, you would see a massive drop in identity theft.
So the credit card companies are doing their best to screw both the consumer and the merchants.
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