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  1. 3 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    People who stay wealthy are better at money management than those who stay poor. I know, rocket surgery and shit. The perpetually poor, those this current give away scheme targets, won’t spend it well.

    Go to Wally World in a poorer area on the day the government checks are cut, and notice what people show up driving, and what they leave the store with. It isn’t clunkers being filled with eggs and butter. 

    Or one group has so much margin for error that fuck ups don't impact their wealth while the poor never make enough to cover even basic necessities. 

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  2. My girlfriend forgets which toothbrush is her's and ends up using mine more than half the time. She tells me it is gross to share a toothbrush though.

    It is somehow my fault for her using the wrong toothbrush.

  3. Just now, Incredulity said:

    In my experience, yes.

    You telling me you don't know people who spend whatever they have no matter how much it is?  I see that shit all the time.  They are continuously utterly amazed that they don't have enough money after a job is over, but when the good times are rolling its toys, toys, toys,...(toys being cars, drugs, alcohol, vacations, remodels, .....)

    Yes, people generally but the poor aren't worse than the average at managing money. I have seen high income people live paycheck to paycheck so there is probably an argument that upper middle class is the worst at managing money.  

  4. 4 hours ago, Parliament said:

    The big shortcoming of UBI is that so many poor people can't manage money.  They'll spend their monthly check on random things, and still need heating assistance, free school lunches, etc.  ie, we'd soon find ourselves "doubling up" welfare programs.

    The example I use is our tax system's refundable tax credits (EITC, dependent tax credit, child-care tax credit, etc). If I understand it right, people can get $8k back.  A person making $18k/year can get one, single check for $8k in March.  They don't spend that money very well.

     

    Is this even true? I know it is standard Republican talking point but there is no evidence that poor people are worse at managing money. They just don't have any of it. Look at Trump, he is terrible at managing money.

  5. 12 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    The media also needs to start saying the word "lie" "lying" and "liar" and quit using "false truth", "misrepresent" 'lacked truthfulness" or whatever other inane euphemism they use.

    Call it what it is, bald face lying. 

    The media will use the word "lying" when talking about Kamala's MJ smoking though

  6. 31 minutes ago, troph said:


    Job number one of the next is to spend 4 years repairing and restoring decency and the customs that keep us civilized.

    Job two is stop disinformation.

    Job three is to fight corruption.

    Job four is to actually govern.

    Jesus we are so far from where we were not that long ago.

    I'd add put in institutional controls to try to prevent this from happening again. 

  7. 13 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

    I think a lot of it has to do with the employees too.  We have a misguided belief that loyalty to a corporation is a thing.  I work with a lot of older guys who complain that their pension has been frozen.  Their benefits have been taken but they are still there.  I have made it clear to my bosses that I'm a mercenary and I will go to whoever pays me the most.  I recently asked and got a huge raise.  The bosses think it was fair, but the backlash I received was actually from my coworkers who feel like I'm fleecing the company because I haven't "done" my time and have no right to ask for a pay raise.  That mindset is pretty prevalent out there and the employers know this and that's what drives the employee pay low.  The CEOs do a helluva lot more than I do.  I also know that with market fluctuations I can get chopped anytime so I demand a higher salary.  The company isn't showing loyalty to me why am I supposed to show any back.  This isn't a charity.  

    1234. I probably look like I job hop, but I know that if my services aren't needed then the company won't keep me so why have any loyalty to a company. It has resulted in me advancing faster than my peers and being paid more. Never have I had someone question why I made so many moves during a interview process. 

    And lulz on CEOs being held accountable. I have seen so many execs blame the market, industry, etc on their poor performance while cashing in millions.

  8. The dems should introduce a bill into the house called the anti-redistribution act that caps the amount of money states can receive to the amount that is paid from that state to the federal coffers.  Let Republican try to explain why in reality all the dem states are subsidizing red states 

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  9. 2 hours ago, berlinerbaer said:

    Geographically, this is the most accurate, or maybe Lubbock to Abeline with the intention of eventually making it to Dallas.

    Um... every BART line serves the East Bay. To get there, you have to travel east from SF. Pittsburgh/Bay Point and Danville lines make it quite a ways inland, in fact.

    You should go back since it seems you've forgotten a lot.

    Los Angeles had an extensive system of rail lines back in the 40s. The land was bought by the auto industry and the lines were closed down and built over into freeways and new roads.

    Roger Rabbit was based on a true story, brah.

    Yes, I understand Oakland but they have no reach to Inner Richmond, etc.

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