American's living Paycheck to Paycheck

[TheReal_ND]

Personally, I've never found meekly attempting to please women to be a particularly sucessful strategy for getting them and keeping them in the fold. Tell you what tho, if you have the means to just walk up from the curb and buy a house in cash, that tends to get their attention.

Tell her to make me a sandwich. I'm a poor hurricane refugee too hungover to move. I'm hungry but moving hurts too much right now. Does she not care about my plight? I'm black. Did she weigh that on her social justice abacus? I'm also Muslim. Surely now I am in the front of the stack for free food.

[Penner]

It's not even a problem. It's cheaper if you are working poor. The banks will fuck you over sideways.

True banks will fuck people over with fees and more fees. The issue with pay day loans is that they add a high interest to those loans and most people then end up not being able to pay off the basic amount borrowed, in the first place. Instead of being in debt to a bank you are now in debt to a pay day loan place and/or a title loan place.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's not even a problem. It's cheaper if you are working poor. The banks will fuck you over sideways.

True banks will fuck people over with fees and more fees. The issue with pay day loans is that they add a high interest to those loans and most people then end up not being able to pay off the basic amount borrowed, in the first place. Instead of being in debt to a bank you are now in debt to a pay day loan place and/or a title loan place.

I think most people actually pay them back within 1-2 months. Most people in credit card debt, however, tend to pay quite a lot more than payday customers.

[TheReal_ND]

Shoo shoo cat lady.

Men were talking to each other. Does your husband not teach you manners?

[Smitty-48]

Personally, I've never found meekly attempting to please women to be a particularly sucessful strategy for getting them and keeping them in the fold. Tell you what tho, if you have the means to just walk up from the curb and buy a house in cash, that tends to get their attention.

Tell her to make me a sandwich. I'm a poor hurricane refugee too hungover to move. I'm hungry but moving hurts too much right now. Does she not care about my plight? I'm black. Did she weigh that on her social justice abacus? I'm also Muslim. Surely now I am in the front of the stack for free food.

Well, she is ostensibly liberal when it comes to knee jerk superficial feelz, but as soon as cold hard cash comes into the equation, she does get quite conservative about it, she's no Cultural Marxist that's fo sho, she certainly doesn't see Americans as being victims, she is after all a died in the wool Loyalist like me, so she would agree that you are simply a product of your culture, and no responibility of hers in the end.

If you were a Labrador Retriever, that would be another story, but filthy persons, she doesn't have any time for them, and when it comes to the filthy who live in a van down by the river, she can be downright snobbish in fact.

[TheReal_ND]

I'm not filthy. When I surrendered my rifles to the police and almost got arrested they applauded how scrupulous my van was.

Though it is rather filthy now. Lots of beach sand everywhere. Nothing to be done for it. I haven't bought a dirt devil and haven't seen one sold. Such is life. I'm walking across the parking lot to McDonald's. I might not make it. Wish me luck.

[Speaker to Animals]

I'm not filthy. When I surrendered my rifles to the police and almost got arrested they applauded how scrupulous my van was.

Though it is rather filthy now. Lots of beach sand everywhere. Nothing to be done for it. I haven't bought a dirt devil and haven't seen one sold. Such is life. I'm walking across the parking lot to McDonald's. I might not make it. Wish me luck.

Watch out for the hurricane refugees. They are living out of their vehicles and can be pretty desperate.

[Smitty-48]

I'm not filthy.

You fly the colours of the Third Reich, sworn enemy of the Crown by your very nature, can't get much more filthy than that, here in Hanover Amongst the Hurons.

[Hastur]

Hmmm, conspicuously quiet, eh wot?

You'd think that with all the angst about it, you'd have that number right on the tip of your tongue by now, because you're not whining, no, you have an ask to make of the empire, indeed

Let's just pretend for a moment that I am the Princeps et Imperator, here's your big chance, you stand before me on the Palatine Hill in all my splendor, ear bent towards you in anticipation of the ask; which will placate you.

So, what's your number, Pleb? Spit it out.

Not really a number. I'm not sure Universal Basic Wage won't ruin our society, though I'd love to test it out somehow.

What I think is needed is systemic changes.

Health Care is probably number 1 in my opinion.

Other things that I think would help would be a liveable wage law, though Hash seems to think those are terrible. It seems to work for the Nordic countries though.

Reform of our "poverty crime" laws to be more in line with income.

That's off the top of my head.

We have no wage laws in Sweden. It's a taboo. Lawmakers should not in any way interfere in the labor market. That is only between the negotiators of the unions and the employers. Third rail of Swedish politics.

[TheReal_ND]

Oh shit. McDonald's has free wifi. I'm bringing my laptop so I can follow racist tweets. I dare not make one though. I can't afford another laptop.