Huge math error in Katrina supply giveaway - CNN.com Honestly, do we really want them handling anything more than absolutely necessary?
Oh my goodness. I almost feel like the UN is our government with things like this: Sometimes it makes me wonder how we still even have a functioning country at this point and a currency that isn't totally worthless. Granted we're headed that way, but the fact that we haven't completely collapsed yet is sometimes astonishing to me.
from where I sit, we passed that point already. With a bank balance of -738.6 trillion dollars and they're still writing rubber checks, I don't believe it's going to get better any time soon. we do have the capacity to pay off the debts, but who believes most americans are willing to put forth the effort anymore? Just check out scrubbin's thread: http://www.tweak3d.net/forums/off-topic/whats-wrong-story-37068 Not a fart's chance in a tornado, i tell you.
i remember a guy i knew went to a park in los angeles where people were bused to and they were giving away those credit cards with like 800$ on them and people were just getting back in line again and again getting as many as they could then blowing them on crap
The government should be so small it can't help anyone! But yah, there are some pretty incompetent people and organizations out there.
Ahh, lol. I was just reading that on CNN. This government ceases to amaze me. I hope someone got fired over this! Or many. 9.25 million + 9.25 million = 85 million right? Never trust a cell phone calculator.
Oh yeah, there are corporate fuck ups to be sure. But they seem to pale in comparison to the percentages in government. Plus, unlike the government you can decide whether or not they get your money.
Hey, I was against the bailout. The individuals and businesses should have been responsible for their own affairs. Take the pain now and get it over with. But no. I pay my mortgage and manage my finances responsibly and now I get to pay for somebody else's too. Poor choices of others + my tax money = good idea? Fuck you.
People by and large don't need help, they want it. I'm poor as fuck right now and could qualify for any number of government handouts. Fuck that noise. I'll get where I'm going on my own, without having to be a cancer to society like a lot of my friends. Also, a lot of my poor friends are so in debt it's ridiculous. How does someone who makes 15k a year get 10k in credit card debts? I'm just tired of people being incompetent fucknuts who aren't responsible for anything they do. I'm debt free, and the only reason I'm debt free is because I drive a cheap ass car with no payments, and only buy what I have the cash to spend on it. I do it on my own, everyday, and there's no reason (short of someone being actually disabled) that they can't do it too. They need help? Fuck them. Tell them not to lease a fucking Cadillac, not to buy that 52" TV or not to buy fucking rims. I hate people.
Ex-fucking-actly. Fuck that noise. I'm not so much against helping out someone who's been laid off, but I'm sure as hell against helping assholes who were buying houses for profit or the assholes I mentioned in the above post.
That's the key right there!! If I had to sum up whats wrong with america it would be a lack of responsibility.
LMAO!!! 52 INCH TV'S AND RIMS on a 15K/year income. wow. Stupidity is the next big widespread disaster, not energy shortage.
You hit that right on the nail. Right now it's corporate greed, next it's idiocracy. The sub-prime bullshit needs to have some convictions and hard time. It was nothing short of criminal. Are we convicting anyone? hell no, we'll bail them out with tax dollars from the ones' that were hurt the most by the "take the money and run" tactics used in the sub-prime glut. S&L, DOTcom, enron, sub-prime, what's next? bail out the oil corps when that bubble pops? I think we are already in the "stupid" category.
When this whole sub-prime disaster was taking root my wife and I were buying a house. EVERYBODY, from the real state agent to the lenders were pushing us to spend more money. We were approved for something sick, like $350,000. Ended up spending $150,000 on a nice little house and we love it. And the best part is that you guys don't have to pay for me being a dumbass living in a McMansion!
We had so many agents and lenders pushing us to take out a $650.000+ mortgage. it was total hardsell, to which I automatically was suspicious. The wife wanted a house so bad. I knew the value of the homes on the market and couldn't believe that 200 thousand dollar homes were actually selling like hotcakes for half a mil. i kept telling her that it was a hell of alot easier to "buy" a home like that, than "pay" for a home like that. Sure glad I didn't take the hook now.
If there were more people like you Wiskas, the world would be a better (and much more interesting) place.
Who cares if it's a better place, I want "interesting"! you notice that all the "homestead" rights were repealed about a decade ago? Yup, about the time we started hawking our land to the Chineese (what else could we use for the collateral it took to borrow 138.6 trillion?). Away went age old mining, salvage and homestead laws/rights. They called it modernizing. Bullshit! the new holders of public land assets didn't want us squatting. [/conspiracy lunacy]
