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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:52 AM Original message |
Living paycheck to paycheck on 200K at year |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
1. It looks like the student loans for their kids is the major problem. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. yep. Probably taken out recently, too near retirement. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. 9K for vacations and 3.5K for housecleaning and yard work. |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. 9,000 in vacations |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:20 PM Response to Reply #13 |
38. Typical upper-middle class whiners. |
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Kaleva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
44. They'd need to pay 40k a year for them to pay off the student loans by the age of 75 |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:50 PM Response to Reply #3 |
47. At 200k they could have BECOME rich, if they just hadn't been such morans |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 05:58 PM Response to Reply #47 |
62. Seriously. |
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brewens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
4. Let's see if I can work up a little sympathy for them..................... |
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Creideiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:10 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. I'm in a higher cost of living area (Denver about the same as Chicago suburbs) |
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Cereal Kyller (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
18. I want the chance... |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. hee! Me too! I'd continue to live on my current salary and save / do good with the rest |
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kick-ass-bob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #20 |
74. Actually no, you wouldn't. |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:24 PM Response to Reply #18 |
41. I'd be happy to "struggle" on a quarter of that! |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yeah, like people making less than half that DON'T have kids they'd like to send to college. CMAR. |
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Taitertots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. Some people are broke because they choose to be, some are broke no matter what they choose |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. please |
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Whisp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. 2 mortgages? |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
8. I should introduce them to my friend who spent the summer of 2009 in a tent |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
9. This is why my son is going to school in the Mass Air Nat Guards dime. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:07 PM Original message |
congrats for your good planning. I've seen too many unknowledgeable |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. Fuck them! |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. wow. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 11:10 AM Response to Reply #12 |
72. No, seriously. Fuck them. |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #10 |
28. +1000000000 |
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Upton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. +200,000 |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:00 PM Response to Reply #10 |
33. +1 |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:07 PM Response to Original message |
11. their financial counselor |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. If I owe the bank ten grand I am in deep shit. If I owe them a million they are in deep shit |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
31. Bankruptcy is where I'd go with this situation |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:05 PM Response to Reply #11 |
34. I thought student loans can't be forgiven in bankruptcy. |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #34 |
57. They can't. n/t |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 09:20 PM Response to Reply #34 |
65. except for those |
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DotGone (53 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
14. So after accounting for student loans, they can't live off $140K? |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. well...that's what the financial planning is helping them to understand |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. In my experience |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. These idiots should be forced to live like the working poor for a while. |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #40 |
43. At the rate they're going |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. the size of the college loan debt - suggests their spending problems predate |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:20 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. good point. Article says they cashed out his 401(k) when he had a salary reduction |
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Shagbark Hickory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
19. (tap tap). Uh oh. Looks like we're out of sympathy. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
22. Orchestra of one playing the world's smallest violin here... |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
23. Then how do they expect those that don't make 10% of that to get by at all? |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
48. Dollars to donuts they are good card-carrying Repigs, too. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
26. And exactly how did they incur those debts? |
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Change Happens (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
27. Lol...If you don't know how to live on $200K/year, you are a fucking idiot!! And, if the kids got |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 12:33 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. agree about the kids, it they have good incomes they should pay up |
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krabigirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #27 |
42. This. The kids should be at least helping to pay those loans. |
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EC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
35. I'll bet they are sure glad they have Social Security |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
36. I'll play a sad song on my little fiddle for them. Fuck them. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:59 PM Response to Reply #36 |
49. What Odin said. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
37. Oh, to have their problems. nt |
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lapislzi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #37 |
69. We have a saying around here. |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
39. where the hell are their kids? |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:00 PM Response to Reply #39 |
50. Partying and vacationing, one presumes. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:17 PM Response to Reply #50 |
55. Future Casey Anthonys! |
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thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
45. I'll take a wild stab in the dark here............... |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
46. Boo hoo. Anybody who makes more than ten times what I do and can't |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
51. We told our first born that she could |
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laylah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
52. My heart goes out to them! |
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blueamy66 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
53. I wonder if either of them has a substance abuse problem |
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Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
54. 9 thousand a year in vacations? A second home? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:19 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. I find it sick how the MSM is trying to get us to feel sympathy for these idiots. |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 09:47 AM Response to Reply #56 |
68. or their repeating the meme that folks in financial trouble did it to themselves |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
58. I looked all over my 500-foot apartment |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
59. and then theres the people whose unemployment has run out |
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Indykatie (416 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 04:50 PM Response to Original message |
60. Couple Never Restarted their 401Ks Despite Having $200K Earnings |
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MouseFitzgerald (208 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
61. Is this a joke? |
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Tallulah (127 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 06:11 PM Response to Reply #61 |
64. I know quite a few people |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
63. Oh those poor people. |
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Philippine expat (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-10-11 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
66. I have no sympathy for someone who can't live on $200k n/t |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
67. meet the "job creators" |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 10:22 AM Response to Reply #67 |
71. Yes, we should all genuflect before their obvious wisdom for we meeklings know nothing of their |
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Bill McBlueState (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
70. Clearly, people at all incomes make bad decisions. |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-11-11 12:04 PM Response to Reply #70 |
75. Eating that macaroni salad even though it tasted a little funny is a bad decision. |
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