Essentially, this is the market self-correcting. If people were getting value out of being in unions, they would join, create, or stay in them. But when your average Joe line worker sees a bloated union administration and president getting rich off his dues, and not getting much in return, or sees his contracts get…

Warren Buffet calls it leakage. Brokerage houses take a percentage of each sale. Win or lose, the brokerages win.

not to mention he has been predicting a market crash for YEARS now.

Not a problem, I fully understand. As I said, you make very good points and you’ve given me a lot to think about. :-)

I love hearing McD workers bellow about how they can’t feed their kids on their burger-pay. Hey, Flippy, here’s a thought: maybe don’t have kids before you can afford them. I mean, do people not know where babies come from?

If you’re working as a career at a shitty minimum wage job, you’ve made some catastrophically stupid choices in your life.

I don’t understand why people think there is ample margin in small business to pay a $15 minimum wage.

Almost every reply to you is about how wrong you are and how you should feel bad haha

BULLSHIT.

I’m not trying to “victim blame” here (I also drive a TDI), but why the hell did you jump on a 2nd car payment with no turn-in timeline in place?

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Omg, you’re right!

Yeah because gas will never go up in price...

Those crazy designs don’t age well. the Golf always looks sharp.

Ah, first sighting of the “voter suppression” excuse. Wondered when this was going to pop up.

I am really sick of this everyone is a bigot and women hater shit. Obama got 10 million more fucken votes than Hillary 8 years ago. Hillary lost white counties in Penn an Ohio that Obama won by 5% by upwards of 25%.

I’ll give you a better baseball analogy.

Jezebel spent a lot of time telling people, especially Bernie bros, to fuck off. They did fuck off, and this is the end result.

Another problem with debt consolidation is a lot of people who do that go right on spending in a way that got them in trouble in the first place. If they do that, they wind up with two debts they can’t handle. First step in getting rid of debt is stop spending more money than you earn.

I think it’s irresponsible to prolong a broken system.