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someguy66 commented on the diary post Predatory Payday Lending Bill Flies Out of Cramped PA House Committee by ThirdandState.
You know the old saying a fool and his money are soon parted. Payday loans are just one of the ways. It doesn’t matter if you keep banning methods, you need less fools.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Income Inequality: When Inequality Increases, Communities Lose Trust. by TomThumb.
I’d like to see a graph of diversity vs trust.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post Now Is the Time to Increase Social Security
Because the middle and working class gets most if not all of the benefits.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post Scott Walker’s Billion Dollar Buffoonery
Haha yeah, its called propaganda.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Is Criminalization of HIV Transmission Effective? Swedish Case Reveals Why the Answer is No by RHRealityCheck.
“1) knows he or she is living with HIV; 2) acts with the intention of transmitting the virus; and 3) actually transmits it” Of these 3 conditions, only the first should be necessary. Knowing you have HIV is, without disclosing it to your partner and having unprotected sex, essentially doing #2 and possibly doing #3. [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post The Insanity Isn’t the Deficit Spending; It’s Claiming That the Government’s Budget Is Like a Household Budget! by letsgetitdone.
Your not making much sense at all. What you’re basically proposing is blowing up the US financial system by nuking the currency and replacing it with a Soviet system where govt guarantees (but cannot actually deliver) everything and just price control wages and products. Either way, its pointless to argue a system that would never [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Open Letter to Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf by dz88.
Were you presented with both appraisals at the time of purchase?
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someguy66 commented on the diary post The Insanity Isn’t the Deficit Spending; It’s Claiming That the Government’s Budget Is Like a Household Budget! by letsgetitdone.
You forget a key point in that money or currency requires faith. If the government just prints money it would be violating the faith that under-girds any form of currency and would make it worthless. There’s nothing inherent in green paper that has value. The value is in the trust. And trust me, if govt [...]
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someguy66 commented on the blog post Setting the Record Straight: The Housing Bubble Lie
The real story:
Everyone was greedy. Lenders and borrowers. Both suffered big losses. And they took us all down with them. End of story.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post The Central Question Posed by the Great Crash by masaccio.
To be completely honest, I wouldn’t want to be a shareholder going into the great crash.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Debt and Civilization by davidpetraitis.
Its easy to call for debt writeoff when you aren’t the one loaning money. Do this: technically you’ve paid into social security for some time now probably. You could think of it as a debt the government owes you when you retire. Now imagine that the govt decides you should write off this debt in [...]
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someguy66 commented on the blog post FDA Seeks “Voluntary” Limits on Antibiotics in Livestock
Well if you want 1.99 a pound chicken every night, this is the price you pay.
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someguy66 commented on the blog post Auto Industry Comeback: Creating the Conditions for Success
“bridge loans”
is that what we call bailouts now?
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someguy66 commented on the diary post The Cost of Health Care in Europe: The Debut of Professional Wrestling on NPR by Dean Baker.
Does that 5-10 include research development, testing, clinical trial, and regulatory approval costs?
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someguy66 commented on the diary post No, please, keep fighting amongst yourselves, … just like the 1% want by tambershall.
You can whine all you want, but its pointless to frame it as 1% vs 99% because the two groups aren’t two sets of people that are homogeneous. Its not like the 1% gather the first monday of every month to conspire to screw the 99% over and the 99% is far more differentiated than [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post Esquire Magazine: Writer wanted to help convert class war into generational war. No skills required; pays top dollar. by Dean Baker.
“There will still be plenty of tax revenue being paid in 2037. This will be sufficient to pay about 80 percent of scheduled benefits. With benefits projected to be close to 40 percent higher (after adjusting for increases in the cost of living ) in 2037, the payable benefit in 2037 would still be higher than what [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post What Does “Strengthening Social Security” Mean to AARP Members? by Brian Sonenstein.
Not everything I am or everything I have comes completely from my own efforts, however, there are things not a part of me or are not owned by me that also comes from my efforts. For example, my tax dollars goes to many things that I don’t own. Ultimately remember the quote “ask not what [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post What Does “Strengthening Social Security” Mean to AARP Members? by Brian Sonenstein.
Its not set as a 401k, but that doesn’t mean financials don’t matter. The promises made by social security must still be balanced against the inputs, except your inputs come first and the promises come later. If you paid into social security, you deserve to get what you paid for. If you think of it [...]
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someguy66 commented on the diary post What Does “Strengthening Social Security” Mean to AARP Members? by Brian Sonenstein.
Course I’m not going to opt out. Its the same faulty argument that conservatives are being hypocritical of using government services they pay for. And read my later post. I’m not against social security, I’m against people who expect more than what they put in.
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someguy66 commented on the diary post What Does “Strengthening Social Security” Mean to AARP Members? by Brian Sonenstein.
Calm down. I didn’t say social security is good or bad. I think its good, but at the same time you can’t stick your head in the sand and not see that change is coming and not all of it may be positive. Social security should be a part of most everyone’s retirement plans but [...]
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