Usa 1776-2008

Quote from gnome:

The Gummint should not be intervening here.. should have let capitalism be capitalism.

The weak would suffer and perhaps even perish... the responsible would pick up the pieces and move forward.

The weak would learn a lesson and behave differently in the future.

Absolutely agree.
 
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Whooooo!! :D

I dont even pay any tax anyways a i trade through an sb firm not 3rd party broker, so im already getting all the benefits for free that everyone ele has to pay for in tax!! :D :p

And then as soon as i saw the credit crunch coming i got 2 creditcards out, maxed them out to over £8,000 in a few days, and then just ignored the banks calls and stuff till they eventually now just giving up and just chucked all my debt in with the rest of the huge smoldering pile to be bailed out by the government, who only get that money from all the people who pay it to them in tax!! LOL


What a lovely beautiful cycle... :p

The only people who actually get fucked are the people who do pay tax!! :cool:
 
Quote from 151:

I am not sure where this should go here is probably as good as anywhere.

A buddy of mine is considering bancruptcy. So he goes and sees a lawyer.

Lawyer guy tells him heel yeah lets file, but first

Lawyer man:Stop paying all your bills right now.

then live off your credit cards and stow away all the cash you can.

This way when we file you'll have some cash stored up and the credit card companies and all your creditors get stuck.

So my buddy is like wow I found a good lawyer!

I wanted to kick him in the balls right there.


First of all he doesnt need to file in the first place and second he's a jack ass for considering the jack ass lawyers ideas.

I am sure this is going on all over the place.

These are the copnsequences of the consumption koolaid USA has been living in during the past 20 years.

Think about mortgages during the past 2-4 years. Keeping up with the johnsons is a cliche but a great description of the american dream.

When teh first guy with a 30k job got the Mcmansion he could not afford then all his coworkers/neighbors/etc followed suit. After the house was the car, then the vacations, etc ....process repeats itself.

Now the irresponsible will be bailed out.
As soon as Mr Johnson starts bragging to his friends how the bailout got him a good deal. lower his mortgage,etc, expect all of his pals to follow suit. Then it will be credit cards, then it will be auto loans. Multiply that all over the country.

Credit scores will mean very little for an economy starving for consumption when the vast majority will have a less than stellar credit score.
Guess what: those with high credit scores happen to be the most responsible buyers, those who understand and follow the concept of budget.
The economy will need the irresponsible ones, those that spend everything they have and not have. You'll see, yet again, businesses "accidentally overlooking" credit scores in order to make a sale.

If you think principles will trump money...think again. Everyone has a price, people that are living paycheck to paycheck will not hesitate one second to lie/trick the system to get some money. And before you respond, regardless of what group you're in, the vast majority in this country as i write is on the paycheck to paycheck group (note that this is regardless of the amount of the paycheck).

The whole premise of solving an economic crisis caused by excesive credit with even more credit is plain wrong.

The implementation of this bailout is plain wrong.

This bailout money, if at all, should have gone directly to the mortgage payments, NEVER through the banks. That would have been the only guarantee that the money would be used for the purpose it was intended to.
 
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