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Originally posted by randomtangentsrme
Awesome. Another way for people who were not responsible with money to be rewarded for their ineptitude.
When I was growing up, you got rewarded for doing things correctly.
Hey world, where's my bailout for having no public debt, and deciding to live within my means?
Originally posted by cornucopia
not everyone is good at the material world bro...
this way of life is not natural...many of us struggle because we jsut wish to be free as spiritual beings...
this needing money to survive sucks, lol
really it is not natural.edit on 9-11-2012 by cornucopia because: misspelling..lol
Originally posted by phroziac
reply to post by TiM3LoRd
Its the banks that make money evil. and the government, which is...run by banks. Hmm.
Originally posted by randomtangentsrme
reply to post by cornucopia
Why? Because I cannot afford to. I work in the arts.
A good year for me is $30,000. An average year is $20,000. My best year has been $50,000. I live in California, so this is not a lot of money.
So again I ask, why reward those who were not responsible with their money?
Originally posted by khimbar
How many of the people who are in favour of this have donated to this 'charity' to help them do it?
They're asking for money to let them do it. So I guess those in favour have donated?
Originally posted by cornucopia
Occupy Wall Street campaigners buy-up debt to abolish it
www.telegra ph.co.uk
(visit the link for the full news article)
A group of campaigners linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement is buying-up distressed loans for pennies in the pound and cancelling them to "liberate debtors at random".
The Great Depression plus harsh drought conditions were hard on farmers in the 1920s and early 1930s. Many could not make enough money to pay the mortgage. As a result, banks would foreclose on the property. They would then sell the farms at public auctions.
Farmers resented the foreclosures. When they would hear about an upcoming auction, they would gather on the day of the auction and make it clear to officials and potential bidders that bids from outside the farm community were not welcome.
"When the bidding commenced, someone in the crowd would start it off at fifteen cents or so, and it rarely got beyond a few dollars before the bidding stopped and the auctioneer would close the sale. If anyone in the farmyard might be so ignorant of what was going on as to put in a serious bid, a suitably burly man would be likely to step up and put a hand on his shoulder with the words, 'That bid's a little high, ain't it?'"
Originally posted by cornucopia
not everyone is good at the material world bro...
this way of life is not natural...many of us struggle because we jsut wish to be free as spiritual beings...
this needing money to survive sucks, lol
really it is not natural.edit on 9-11-2012 by cornucopia because: misspelling..lol