Wow, the rare instance of “Do you know who I am?” being used to a positive effect!

Sadly we’re going to be hearing a lot more stories like this in the years to come. Think about how many women are now going to avoid going to the hospital for fear of the staff calling the cops. Meanwhile, Republicans voted against the child tax credit. They do not care about children. All they care about is using the…

If those hospital staff did indeed report her to the authorities, they and the hospital need an enormous HIPAA investigation mounted against them, and whoever was involved in it need to have their licenses permanently revoked.  

Outrageous, unjust, illegal.

Yep. At this point there’s no way for the government to ensure that an individual church isn’t violating the IRS’s “no politics from the pulpit” rule, so all of them need to be taxed as if the pastor were stumping for a candidate every week (because a hell of a lot of them are). It’s too bad, because there certainly…

Exactly. It’s the biggest red flag a megachurch could wave.

Evangelism is a pox on humanity.  Full stop. 

Surprised Russia isn’t trying to dust one of those off given how things are going for them.

When the leader of the church cozies up to the rich and powerful all alarm bells should instantly go off. See every Evangelical church. This particular church struck me as shady the minute I saw them hanging with Bieber. It’s kind of like watching your business manager partying in Miami with Leo DiCaprio. Grab your…

Ford calls the new loan “Permanently upside down”.

“I still hold my initial concerns she may legislate from the bench instead of consistently following the Constitution as written,” Tillis said—- The utter and complete lack of self-awareness, the HYPOCRISY is stunning.

I have a smidgeon of faith in the Senate after this.

You’ve already gotten plenty of comments on this, so I’ll try to keep it simple. No one is saying the lender shouldn’t get their money + interest, and that the interest shouldn’t match the risk.

You need to go back and read the article again. The article is not about people who make bad decisions. It’s about predatory lenders who are not regulated and are in a position to take advantage of people who are in bad situations. I hate self-righteous know it all ass-es.

Right from the start you are full of shit. In 2018 $4K only buys you a marginally usable car if you are lucky and only if you are capable of doing all or most of the maintenance for yourself. $4K buys you a piece of crap which is a continuous and expensive money sink which is a hassle to keep running.

“Life isn’t fair” is such a weird saying. Especially in this situation. Because while life wasn’t fair to Mr. Parker, it was very fair to the owners of the company who lent him money. Life was so fair for them that life got the state to use its monopoly on legitimate violence to take money from Parker and give it to…

People operating within a free system can make their own choices.

He did have a job until his illness. And, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Predatory lenders are like someone walking into your house and stealing everything and justifying it by saying your door was unlocked.

More financial education in schools would go a long way. Just teaching students what rates they should be able to source for different things (i.e. you should get prime rate plus X.XX% for a car, mortgage, etc. If you get more than that, it’s a bad deal!) or how much percent of their income they should pay on rent,…

You’re a bad person.

“This person wasn’t financially literate, therefore the predatory lenders are good.”

Capitalism is amoral.