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Comments

trepidity23 on 28 January, 2010 at 5:54 pm #

Here is the secret with credit cards. Don’t use them to extend your budget outside your means. You can use them to help your credit score and not have to have cash or a load of debit transactions to keep track of daily. Keep track of your spending of course though. Don’t focus on your set limit by the credit card company, instead set yourself a limit built into your monthly budget, pay every bill off 100% each month, if you cannot, your overspending. If can’t stop yourself, get rid of the cards.


trepidity23 on 31 January, 2010 at 10:51 pm #

READ BEFORE YOU SIGN ANYTHING.
If you don’t understand the agreement. Don’t sign it until you do and from your understanding of the agreement are willing to agree. If you sign an agreement you don’t understand it’s not the other party’s fault you don’t understand it. It’s your fault for agreeing to it. Take some personal responsiblity. Essentially Obama by things like this is saying, “Ok look, the people are stupid and uneducated. Therefore they are not responsible for their own actions.” FAIL


Silvsilvchan on 3 February, 2010 at 1:23 pm #

You carry four credit cards in your wallet.

I carry zero.

But that’s your choice. Personally, I dislike going into debt of any sort, and every time you charge something you are going into a form of debt. *shrugs*


imatruthsayer on 4 February, 2010 at 9:21 pm #

I have the documents which manufactured the FRAUDs in the mortgage disaster. They need to be challenged and revised. The kickbacks to the CLERKS OF THE COURTS need to be audited as well. I am a trustor of Bank of America and they are using the estate of me DECEASED to moneylaunder. Crooked czar Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is an attorney that is involved in the banking fraud. In my opinion fact, Please help declare me alive and enforce SPECIAL POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Sept.2/09 Honey R. Siegal


wimscheers on 7 February, 2010 at 10:23 am #

I love the tone used while saying ‘The Repbulican program is Actually worth looking at’


TenseAlcyoneus on 9 February, 2010 at 5:25 am #

And on the style, Nick Gillespie looks like he could kick Jean Claude van Damm’s *** by ripping off Superman’s arm, clubbing Rambo to death with it, taking his gun and going Matrix on the Nederlander douchebag. I like that.


TenseAlcyoneus on 12 February, 2010 at 1:51 pm #

Who give a flying f**k about product complexity. Complex products lead to broker markets. Broker markets have, well brokers, who are expert enough to mitigate contracting hazards. Of course, this makes products more expensive to sell and market.

But wait! That’s a huge economic incentive to keep products simple. Then the best explanation for overly-complex financial products is some externality….thinking…thinking…got it! Government regulation.


humanman65 on 14 February, 2010 at 6:33 pm #

The credit small businesses utilize comes into play often. Like a consumer who puts several purchases, over a weekend, on a card and then does it again a next weekend. Small businesses work to grow and will buy justified by speculation of sales.
This is not new.
Something about that reminds me of the 90’s.
-Frequent purchesness via low cost items is not limited to consumers. Convenience stores and Extension Class Community College Educators partake in the phenomenon.
Same as the old boss.


HymerSchmidt on 14 February, 2010 at 9:49 pm #

I swear Nick has a time machine he’s telling no one about.


SpiralOut11235 on 17 February, 2010 at 8:32 pm #

Gotta get that jacket and those sideburns…


sniper6081 on 21 February, 2010 at 8:14 am #

ANOTHER BUREACRACY!!! As if the fourteen we have now weren’t enough!


POLYMORPHLEGION on 24 February, 2010 at 1:49 pm #

nice… i saw the cult in the title but couldn’t quite make out the rest…. funny stuff… good eyes too…


ComradeJenny on 25 February, 2010 at 11:32 pm #

The book near Nick is: “The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power” That’s two synchromystic winks :)


oilhammer04 on 26 February, 2010 at 3:48 am #

The Obamacare will likely run us into $14.4 trillion deficit over the next 10 years according to The Concord Coalition. from Sept. 12, 2009 World Magazine Timothy Lamer


haypenny on 27 February, 2010 at 3:09 pm #

Absolutely 98nafets, we already have ‘regulation’ - it’s called the law. White collar crime is like any other, with penalties and natural consequences. The purpose of government regulation is just more social engineering, and government power grabbing.


Signofthedollar on 1 March, 2010 at 1:38 am #

It’s our money, not the governments.


corenothing on 1 March, 2010 at 1:17 pm #

I love that remark about credit companies competing every time he opens his wallet - they’re not swindlers who locked you into an unending slavery - you’re Free To Choose


samuils on 2 March, 2010 at 4:06 pm #

Heres a thought for Obama administration- get rid of government backed credit issuers , salliemae would be one of them.


POLYMORPHLEGION on 3 March, 2010 at 8:52 am #

love the book over the shoulder “the decline and fall of the roman empire”… . a little synchromystic wink…


matahaari on 6 March, 2010 at 5:40 pm #

The Oministration is making great progress towards growing the dependency class.


98nafets on 9 March, 2010 at 4:17 pm #

I’m so sick of liberals saying deregulation is what caused the economic crisis. America has to realize that it was the government setting up perverse incentives that brought the downfall.


godlessmessiah on 11 March, 2010 at 12:40 am #

lol.
you would be shocked at how many people need to be told exactly that.


Ishinaz on 11 March, 2010 at 6:05 am #

There is only one time I could even concider using a credit card, and that is as a last resort outside of the country to get back home. Buying on credit is irresponsible and stupid. If you cant afford the crap, dont buy it and wait untill you get your salary. If you’re going to buy something more expensive than a TV, aka a car and so on, take a proper loan.