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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 24 2009, 02:40 AM (536 Views) | |
| Mikhailoh | Apr 24 2009, 02:40 AM Post #1 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I personally think this is a good thing. The credit card companies have become, IMO, greedy and predatory. Bravo, Mr. Obama. This is a campaign promise he is fulfilling. From Bloomberg.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 24 2009, 03:46 AM Post #2 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Outstanding. Credit where credit is due. (Without a whopping 23% interest rate)
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 24 2009, 04:23 AM Post #3 |
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I'm all for deregulation, but it has to be coupled with a sense of responsibility. When it isn't, back comes regulation, and rightfully so. |
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| QuirtEvans | Apr 24 2009, 04:24 AM Post #4 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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The bankers are fighting tooth and nail against this. Watch who champions their side in Congress. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 24 2009, 04:29 AM Post #5 |
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The problem I have with the GOP here is they are using this needed effort to score points about the rising national debt. The two are not related in any actionable way, and linking them is specious. My party sure seems to have lost their way. Both parties, actually. |
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| Frank_W | Apr 24 2009, 05:25 AM Post #6 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Welcome to the Centrist party, Mik. That's both a good and bad thing.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Pianolicious | Apr 24 2009, 05:34 AM Post #7 |
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Senior Carp
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Credit cards are so evil these days. I've cut up all but a few and closed them and don't charge unless I know I can pay them off immediately. Part of the reason for this recession IMHO is that the word is getting out to the rank and file voter that banks WANT TO trap you and keep you their prisoner. People may be gullible, but when they get bit a few times they usually change their ways. |
| Sit tibi vita longa et omnia bona!!! -- Dr. Spock | |
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| John D'Oh | Apr 24 2009, 05:36 AM Post #8 |
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MAMIL
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The really bad thing about the centrist party is that it doesn't exist. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 24 2009, 05:40 AM Post #9 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Indeed... I could probably join the Libertarian party, if they'd let go of some of the more offbeat policies that make them sound like a bunch of whack-jobs. The income tax isn't going away. Shut up about it. Marijuana is not going to become federally legalized. Shut up about it. The more I learn about politics and politicians, the more I think they are all just scumbags, and if it didn't have any bearing on my life, I wouldn't care, at all. Purchasing a hundred acres in New Mexico, putting a 12' fence around it, and building a house right in the middle of it, is increasingly appealing. |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 24 2009, 06:04 AM Post #10 |
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I would not count on marijuana, perhaps other drugs as well, not being legalized. The drug war has come to our border and this might be one very effective way to stop it. |
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| Frank_W | Apr 24 2009, 06:05 AM Post #11 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Maybe... But to make it part of your party's platform alienates a massive sector of voters who apparently think "Reefer Madness" was a true-to-life documentary. |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 24 2009, 06:07 AM Post #12 |
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It's not true?
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| Frank_W | Apr 24 2009, 06:08 AM Post #13 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| big al | Apr 24 2009, 06:28 AM Post #14 |
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Bull-Carp
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I think I've gotten changes on most credit cards I possess (one department store doesn't seem to have done anything lately; maybe they're just slower than the rest). I haven't changed my pattern of paying in full every month and I've been at the same employer for about 10 years and address for 26 years. One card cut my credit limit in half. It's of no practical importance to me because I seldom use more than 5% of the previous limit on that card and it had risen to a ridiculous level, but the principle of the thing still annoyed me. Big Al |
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| Mark | Apr 24 2009, 07:14 AM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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LIES!
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| Frank_W | Apr 24 2009, 07:37 AM Post #16 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Do you REALLY think the income tax will ever be rescinded or abolished? I'm not any fonder of it than you are, but being radical isn't ever going to garner the Libertarians a legitimate number of voters to mount a serious campaign. They need to drop the more radical bits and see about appealing to the broader base of disenfranchised, nonpartisan crowd. |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 24 2009, 07:39 AM Post #17 |
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It will just be replaced by something every bit as onerous. |
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| Mark | Apr 24 2009, 08:03 AM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The income tax is what is radical my friend. The fact that those in power have effectively brainwashed the public into believing that it is both necessary and "patriotic" have done a great job. It is neither. It is one of the most unpatriotic things just this side of blind worship of all things government. Getting rid of it is sanity. And Mik, it should not be replaced with anything. If we would simply stop electing the different sides of the same coin it could be repealed. |
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| Frank_W | Apr 24 2009, 08:19 AM Post #19 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Should, should, should, should, should.... The income tax IS. Yes, it should probably be abolished. Will it? Probably not.
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| John D'Oh | Apr 24 2009, 08:49 AM Post #20 |
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MAMIL
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There shouldn't be wars, famine, drug abuse, mental illness and construction work on the I-95 on may way home from freaking work every day, either. All of these things worry me more than income tax. Life's a bitch, and then you die. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| 1hp | Apr 24 2009, 09:55 AM Post #21 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Yes, I though the issue with credit cards was a worthy battle. However I am not confident that Obama can really effect change - very hard to write and pass legislature that will do exactly as you planned. The banks will find a way around it. Credit card interest is big profit for banks - the only way to fix this is for the US to reduce the amount of loans on credit cards, which would have the effect of making the banks more competitive (reduce demand with an over supply). Not going to happen, so at this point it's all in the banks favour. Al, your problem is that you don't exercise your card credit enough. Strange as it sounds there are people on the edge of financial ruin who probably have better credit limits than you, largely because they have regularly exercised their cards. |
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| Mark | Apr 24 2009, 10:55 AM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's plain to see that you simply have your priorities mixed up. ![]() Actually life is pretty friggin cool. It can be a bitch but over all it is not. And then you die. |
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| Pianolicious | Apr 24 2009, 02:37 PM Post #23 |
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Senior Carp
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How come when I give Obie the benefit of the doubt I'm an apologist and when you do it's this big touchy feely feel-good love-in? |
| Sit tibi vita longa et omnia bona!!! -- Dr. Spock | |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 24 2009, 02:45 PM Post #24 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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You give him the benefit of the doubt on the dumb sh!t he does.
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Jolly | Apr 24 2009, 03:27 PM Post #25 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Yep, Obie gets a gold star on this one... |
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