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Vasudus posted:My retirement target is 2045. Provided there's still a stock market I'll be fine by then. Very few people in GIP will end up actually retired, without serious injuries.
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CommieGIR posted:If Roy Moore wins, I hold zero hope for 2018 Alabama isn't exactly a good benchmark for Democratic performance against Republicans. If Jones comes within 5 points, that'll be bad news for Republicans in moderate states.
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Dec 4, 2017 16:24
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CommieGIR posted:If Roy Moore wins, I hold zero hope for 2018 If he wins the senate republicans will finally realize that nothing matters to their base and they can say or do whatever they want both on and off the job. We're now in a world where some people see being a democrat as more evil than molesting children.
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CommieGIR posted:If Roy Moore wins, I hold zero hope for 2018 Look inside your heart. He's going to run away with this. At least 58%. MA-Horus posted:Insh'allah I'll be marrying into a family with a mind-boggling amount of wealth. I've already joked about signing a prenup, but knowing how much cash my gf's dad has to throw around that's probably not a joke. One of those Jaguar things? Buy him a bottle of this for Christmas: 
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KildarX posted:Further it's really hard to understand, but there is a difference between. "I am getting phat stacks from my holdings and no longer have to work" vs "I and my family will have "gently caress You" money forever more" I got a house worth 650k on paper with 100k mortgage. I'm expecting it to go back down in value with this excrement of a tax plan. Thanks Obama.
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My mom's a public school teacher whose retirement was wiped out by two cancer treatments. Also she worked through the first couple of weeks of chemo, so that she could afford more treatment one the coverage wore out. Good to know she's going to be taxed on school supplies so that the real job creators can be rewarded for their good judgement.
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Dec 4, 2017 16:27
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I'm still mired in debt from the previous housing market collapse. :/
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I'm lucky as gently caress my parents worked two jobs each l and were able to pay for my college. Grew up poor but as they stayed in their jobs we moved into the upper middle class. I live on Long Island NY, one of the highest taxed, highest cost of living spots in America (besides large cities like San Fran, LA, NYC). My girlfriend and I make a combined income of less than $75k / year, she's got student loans to pay off, and our 1 room apartment is $1600 a month. Any other place we'd be upper middle class. We've got a few thousand in savings. We have that cushion. We live within our means, but her medical coverage sucks and it gets worse by the year. We're lucky we have thay cushion, but that cushion has been diminishing due to expensive drug costs per month that she needs to live. We struggle to save for a house one day. This is absolutely "first world problems," but I'm trying to illustrate that even coming from a decidedly upper middle class family, my prospects of making as much money as my parents did are not good. Again, this isn't to complain as a sob story, this is to illustrate how hosed our economy and society has become. Millenials will be the first generation to not have a standard of living better than the parents generation. Even with all the privilege I was born with and grew into (white male, upper middle class) and utilized, I'm still likely going to have a lesser standard of living than my parents. How the gently caress are the poor and lower middle class supposed to survive, much less move into the upper middle class? The game is becoming even more rigged against the poor and middle class, and half those fucks don't even realize it because they're too worried about dumb LIEBERALS and EMAILS and keeping Christ in Christmas and ABORTIONS and other culture war bullshit the GOP uses to divide our nation, and distract us from how badly we're getting pounded in the rear end by the rich. Most Americans don't even have enough money for a $500 emergency expense. That is a loving travesty. gently caress this tax bill. gently caress the GOP. gently caress McConnell and Ryan. gently caress Trump. gently caress this loving earth. Bored As Fuck fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Dec 4, 2017 |
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Wasabi the J posted:My mom's a public school teacher whose retirement was wiped out by two cancer treatments. As of last Thursday, the Senate version of the tax plan actually doubled the deduction for teachers' supplies, obviously reacting to the overwhelming criticism of that measure in the House version. There are plenty of things to criticize the bill for (kiss ANWR goodbye, e.g.), but this isn't one of them.
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at the date posted:As of last Thursday, the Senate version of the tax plan actually doubled the deduction for teachers' supplies, obviously reacting to the overwhelming criticism of that measure in the House version. There are plenty of things to criticize the bill for (kiss ANWR goodbye, e.g.), but this isn't one of them. Oh cool she can get her other perceptions from CVS-Aetna, an Omni Corp subsidiary.
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Here’s my humblebrag about how much money I have (it may shock you):
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Bored As gently caress posted:Most Americans don't even have enough money for a $500 emergency expense. That is a loving travesty. gently caress this tax bill. gently caress the GOP. gently caress McConnell and Ryan. gently caress Trump. gently caress this loving earth.  even though the only real source of resentment along this vein is my college debt.
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Woof Blitzer posted:Here’s my humblebrag about how much money I have (it may shock you): No where to go but up! Boot straps are not free.
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CommieGIR posted:If Roy Moore wins, I hold zero hope for 2018 Here's the funny part about that though. https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/937686807201943553 Moore's an uncontrollable, religious nutbag and he won't take Donnie or McConnell's poo poo. Jones might actually want to get re-elected and would act quasi-Republican.
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Woof Blitzer posted:Here’s my humblebrag about how much money I have (it may shock you): Oh you look like a goon of means, would you like to try my neck massage machine? The bucket's there just to make sure you don't mess up your hair on the floor, don't worry.
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Dec 4, 2017 16:42
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Having no college debt and being a DINK household is a way to find yourself not wealthy, but so much above the median that it's ridiculous. It's loving awful how many people are two week's pay away from defaulting on stuff or having to sell off their possessions.
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mlmp08 posted:Having no college debt and being a DINK household is a way to find yourself not wealthy, but so much above the median that it's ridiculous. It's loving awful how many people are two week's pay away from defaulting on stuff or having to sell off their possessions. Yeah, this. Like Dr. FAUXTON and I even still have college debt but our income is enough to save at a decent clip.
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facialimpediment posted:Here's the funny part about that though. But if there is a Dem swing in 2018, Jones will likely swing back. Moore? No.
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CommieGIR posted:But if there is a Dem swing in 2018, Jones will likely swing back. Republicans aren't hedging their bets for 2018. Their legislative priorities are centered around the assumption they'll lose the house next year.
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Dec 4, 2017 16:53
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I'm making good money now but it'll take years still before I'm comfortable. My 20s were absolutely ruinous on my finances and I'm lucky enough that my parents could float me a few grand when I needed it. The only way that that was possible was largely because my dad died and my mom could spare it. edit: I was on food stamps in 2013-2014 and all that jazz
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Wasabi the J posted:My mom's a public school teacher whose retirement was wiped out by two cancer treatments. Also she worked through the first couple of weeks of chemo, so that she could afford more treatment one the coverage wore out. Public school teachers are probably more evil than democratic politicians to the GOP at this point, friendo.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Public school teachers are probably more evil than democratic politicians to the GOP at this point, friendo. Welfare queens who teach English to illegal immigrants in public schools, next time on Sean Hannity! BigDave fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Dec 4, 2017 |
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Most wealthy people are one lovely day from being poor. Thanks, cancer
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It took most of my 20s to become fiscally stable, finally doing ok now and will be doing better when I move in with the woman, no mortgage only condo fees.
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Poppyseed Poundcake posted:So we should dis-incentivize people from being self-sufficient? Like you seriously want to tax the balance in someones checking account? Seriously. If you have a quarter million sitting in your checking account gently caress you. Ambihelical Hexnut posted:20k is a standard person's checking account balance? wealthy boi identified. I mean, it's one banana, Hex... What could it cost? Ten dollars? MA-Horus posted:Insh'allah I'll be marrying into a family with a mind-boggling amount of wealth. I've already joked about signing a prenup, but knowing how much cash my gf's dad has to throw around that's probably not a joke. Do they have cousins? I am an eligible bachelor in search of a wife. One of the people I was acquainted with in Hawaii met his $100M trust fund wife on a beach. He got out of the Navy fast. M_Gargantua fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Dec 4, 2017 |
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I'm doing pretty OK but I'm aware that's mostly because I've been lucky enough to never have kids. "They'll come after you next!" has always been one of the most effective methods of duping the middle class into siding with the upper class on issues like this.
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Arven posted:If he wins the senate republicans will finally realize that nothing matters to their base and they can say or do whatever they want both on and off the job. We're now in a world where some people see being a democrat as more evil than molesting children. Before the Civil War South Carolina kept electing a dude who diddled his underage cousin/neice because he was an ardent secessionist/general friend of slavery. We've been in this lovely world before.
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M_Gargantua posted:Seriously. If you have a quarter million sitting in your checking account gently caress you. literally this
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Before the Civil War South Carolina kept electing a dude who diddled his underage cousin/neice because he was an ardent secessionist/general friend of slavery. We've been in this lovely world before. Who was this?
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DAS Super! posted:Who was this? James Henry Hammond. He was even a Senator!
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Your Battle Buddy posted:Strom Thurmond Nice
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Professor Bling posted:literally this thankfully I clock in at 35k under that mark. Phew!
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Notable quotes quote:"I firmly believe," said Governor J. H. Hammond, "that American slavery is not only not a sin, but especially commanded by God through Moses, and approved by Christ through his apostles."[14]
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:thankfully I clock in at 35k under that mark. Phew! If that's in your checking account as opposed to IRAs or savings or funds, I have bad news for you about your financial management skills. But still good news that you have some money!
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mlmp08 posted:If that's in your checking account as opposed to IRAs or savings or funds, I have bad news for you about your financial management skills. But still good news that you have some money! well OBVIOUSLY I have money in other financial products, but I keep a little spare change on hand this time of year, what with Christmas and Baselworld coming up
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mlmp08 posted:If that's in your checking account as opposed to IRAs or savings or funds, I have bad news for you about your financial management skills. But still good news that you have some money! How much should one keep in their checking account at a maximum?
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more than you need to pay your known bills for a month while putting as much money as possible into higher growth financial products. i don't have a beep boop number for you but if you are asking the question "what do I do with all these extra simoleons I have lying around" I am assuming you have access to some sort of financial advisor or w/e that can help you manage your money and select the right products based on what you are getting from your employer, future goals that require liquidity (like a house purchase) and so on.
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CommieGIR posted:If Roy Moore wins, I hold zero hope for 2018 https://twitter.com/boring_as_heck/status/937733620281761793
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I LICK APE PUSSY posted:How much should one keep in their checking account at a maximum? One year of living expenses (minus dividends or other passive income) if you're retired. I'd say six months (of bare minimum rent + utilities + groceries) if you're still working.
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