I know. I HATE remakes or tributes that they change to be in “modern times.” You’re alienating both audiences - those of us who know Jem would want it to be loyal to the original, and the younger genderation who relate to the “modern times” deal isn’t going to see this movie because there’s no nostalgia.

Courts can allow medical records to be subpoenaed.

Are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?

I totally came down here to say that.

A judge can nix a plea deal.

People still get scurvy, yo.

Your analysis makes me believe you have never been in extreme poverty. If you just save $50 a month, it will take you almost two years to take Ramsey’s first “baby step.” And even $50 a month is often unrealistic. When I was in college, I made a whole $500 a month working two jobs. $300 went to rent, which was cheap.…

But what I’m saying is that a lot of poor people aren’t poor because of “bad decisions.” They’re just poor. When I went through it, I didn’t smoke, I didn’t drink, I never bought fancy coffee drinks (drank it black out of the drip machine at my office), didn’t buy soda, didn’t eat out, didn’t have a car, didn’t buy…

I used to sleep through breakfast on my days off just so I wouldn’t have the extra cost of breakfast.

Oh yeah. A lot of people here are saying, just do a manual register. Well that’s all well and good, only if you deposit $100 on day 1 at 12:00 p.m. and spend $50 on day 1 at 2:00 p.m., your manual register is going to say you have $50. The bank is going to say you have -$50 + a $35 overdraft charge. That means when…

You hit the nail right on the head. I too clawed my way out of poverty to relative success. Do I work hard for my paycheck? Yeah. Did I work hard for my $6.25/hour paycheck too? Yeah. People love to believe that their success was totally their doing and their gumption and their hard work wen the truth is, for most…

Yup. At least the Jr. Whopper isn’t covered in flies. Been there, done that. Even boxed stuff I would buy sometimes would have maggots or something. It’s devastating to spend all you have on cheap, crappy food, then have that crappy food turn out to be inedible.

You’re gonna get scurvy if you’re living off of rice, bread, and milk.

If you grew up in the ‘90’s or ‘00’s, you didn’t learn how to balance a checkbook. I have no clue how to balance a checkbook. As for clothes, unless you plan on washing your uniform every night (for which you will need your own washer/dryer) you need more than one shirt and one pair of pants, especially when you’re…

1. The bike thing is unrealistic for a lot of the year - in winter it’s too cold, there’s snow, etc. In summer it’s too hot, you can’t show up to work dripping in sweat.

Trying to apply Dave Ramsey to the very poor is bullshit. There’s a difference between being “broke” and being “poor.” Broke means you’re living above your means - spending more than you’re making. Poor means you’re not making enough to begin with. Poor means you get to decide whether to pay the electric bill or the…

If you’re poor, you actually might not be better off drinking tap water - getting enough calories is often a problem, and especially if you’re malnourished (as most of the very poor are) your body is going to crave sugar like you wouldn’t believe.

Depends on where you are. back when I was taking the bus, I lived about 3 miles away from my workplace. Guess how long it took me to get to work? An hour and a half each way. To go three miles. Because the bus didn’t have a direct route from my home to the office I had to go miles out of the way, change buses, then go…

$40 a week just in meat is a lot for the very poor. In college, working two jobs, my food budget was $20 a week, and this wasn’t that long ago, so you can imagine how much food $20 gets you (about one bag of groceries. Per week.).

You might think stuff like meatloaf and stroganoff is cheap, but when I was a very poor college student, stuff like ground beef was a luxury. It was hot dogs and canned tuna and lots of bread. Can’t really make a lot of healthy stuff with those ingredients.