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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: Grim 82 on March 01, 2012, 10:22:28 am
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http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/01/10548400-some-wall-streeters-facing-tough-times-on-just-350000-a-year
Glad I'm not in their $1000 golf shoes
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Cue the tiny violins ;D
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Oh well. Everybody else has to cut back. goes back to the old saying... something about living within your means...ah i forget, I'm too busy paying off my 12 maxed $5k credit cards... may have to take back the margarita machine. :)
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It goes to show that people spend what ever they make, very few people can actually put money away and save it. If they make $350,000.00 a year, they spend $350,000.00 a year, or close to it and sometimes even more with the debt they rack up.
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It goes to show that people spend what ever they make, very few people can actually put money away and save it. If they make $350,000.00 a year, they spend $350,000.00 a year, or close to it and sometimes even more with the debt they rack up.
Too true. It is funny when people get a big raise or promotion, they celebrate by buying a new car with a loan. Its like saying "Yay, I got a $400 a month raise! Lets celebrate with a $500 month car payment!"
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For just thousands of dollars a day, you can feed this stock broker.
All of the problems that the world has, and this sniveling turd is newsworthy because he's been reduced to having to drive around in a porsche and now he can't afford the $17 it costs every time one of his dogs has to be let out to take a dump.
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They don't have the bailout money they stole from us the working class to pay for their bonus'....
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You mean the government is no longer our voice? They're not looking out for us?
Shock !!
Gasp !!
I feel there is no one to take care of myself and my loved ones...... but me. Period.
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At $350K/Year that means those poor souls only make $6,730/Per week or $961/Per day. Don't know how I could make it living like that.
Holy Moses, Id be overwhelmed to make that much money! I'd be set, period.
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350k a year lets see well in 1 month Kim's focus and my Explorer and everything else would be paid off. Ummmm the rest I have no clue how to even spend that much in a year. I would probably send my 67 Le Mans out to Chip Foose and say call me when it's done.
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I would probably send my 67 Le Mans out to Chip Foose and say call me when it's done.
I would send my 82 K10 to VileZambonie and say call me when it's done ;D
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I would probably send my 67 Le Mans out to Chip Foose and say call me when it's done.
I would send my 82 K10 to VileZambonie and say call me when it's done ;D
You know I would do that too and make sure I tell him to put a lighted visior on it. ;D
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I would love just 12,000 a year. 350k @.@ I think I would donate 90% to people who need it. You know working families and the people who can't work because of real problems.
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Audrima, you would soon have a bunch of new friends and kinfolk to help bring you back to reality. Me included..lol
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I spent my twenties living pay check to pay check, and it got me down - I would love to have those prime years of my life back. But, it got me to where am I today. Don't envy those that "make too much money" because, in the end, we live in the same country that gives us the freedom to succeed, and if you hustle it you can make it too. I'm a blue-collar guy, and sometimes I'm tempted to trash talk stock brokers, but it's not worth the energy - use that energy to inspire yourself. I had the best year I've ever had, money wise, and I have no say when it comes to the 30k I GAVE away to the government. You know what I do with my free time? I cut and split firewood so I can put money in my daughter's college fund. I'm lucky if I make 5k a year busting my fricking back splitting wood because I didn't get to decide what to do with that 30k uncle Sammy took to support my country. Help the helpless, not the hopeless - unfortunately, a whole bunch of our tax dollars go to losers that could be splitting wood rather than whining about people that make too much money.
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Don't envy those that "make too much money" because, in the end, we live in the same country that gives us the freedom to succeed, and if you hustle it you can make it too.
He can EARN as much money as he wants, but why should he be rewarded for failure with OUR tax money? He should hustle like everybody else and then maybe he can make it.
I'm tempted to trash talk stock brokers, but it's not worth the energy - use that energy to inspire yourself
I respectfully disagree, and submit that it IS in fact worth the energy to try to identify and solve the problems that are ruining our country. One might even say that it's one's civic duty, and I'm pretty inspired by that.
I had the best year I've ever had, money wise, and I have no say when it comes to the 30k I GAVE away to the government.
I had a great year as well. You GAVE 30k to the government, like a gift? Or do you mean they TOOK it, and you let them keep it because you didn't want to go to jail. There's a big difference.
30k uncle Sammy took to support my country
That money didn't go to support the country. It went to bail out wall street, and now the guy in the article says he needs more of yours and my money or else he might only get steak and lobster 6 nights a week.
Help the helpless, not the hopeless - unfortunately, a whole bunch of our tax dollars go to losers that could be splitting wood rather than whining about people that make too much money.
Yeah if only our founding fathers would have spent less time whining about over taxation and government oppression, and chopped more firewood, buncha losers.
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It all boils down to the same story. Those who don't have money complain about those who have money. Those who have money complain about not having enough money. ;D
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It's one of those deals where if everybody knew when enough was enough, everybody would have enough, if that makes any sense. The root of the problem is people living beyond their means, and if they are looking for sympathy from the average hard working American, they are barking up the wrong tree. The rest of us are content with what we have, but we all sure could use the extra cash in our accounts instead of bailing out the crooks who pi$$ed away our 401k's.
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You missed my point Grim. It's funny how you could bring the founding fathers into it in that context - part of my point is that I too am fed up with over taxation. Income tax wasn't on the docket when the founding fathers were around, and I definitely do not support bail outs. But look at the big picture, welfare and unemployment are "bailouts" too, and we spend way more on that. The big financial bailouts have been largely paid back with interest, but we're paying way too many losers $12 an hour to sit on their butts for up to two years and we won't get that money back. I have sympathy for those who can't work and we should help them, but this system is being manipulated and I'm sick of it.
The gov didn't take my money. They told me what I "owed" and I gave it to them. I wrote "for sexual favors" in the memo line of my check just for shoots and giggles. Maybe I pay my taxes to stay out of prison, maybe I do it because I'm supposed to, but it doesn't matter. You think the wallstreeters are the problem, I think they're only a small part of it. Yeah they're out of control, butni don't hear anyone whining about professional athletes making millions and foreclosing on their mansions... Pick your battles. The one I'm focused on is getting a congress and a president that will submit a budget and trim some fat.
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Ha! I just realized I spent ten minutes ranting to someone I probably agree with, and here I am saying, "pick your battles..." I'm not picking mine very carefully - I'm a hypocrite.
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I think we probably do agree on alot of things. Having too much of our hard earned money taken from us and given away to others is bad enough, and when they give it away to those that have several times more income than the average person they are taking it from, it's the straw that breaks the camel's back. I like the idea of voting with my dollar, which is why I have nothing to do with Hollywood or professional sports, and why I don't shop at certain stores. I don't support welfare of any kind, but I don't get a vote in that, unless I want to go to jail. I want to see the regime change, but it will most likely be the same situation as many previous administrations. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.....