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Old 09-26-2008, 03:41 AM
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Old 09-26-2008, 03:46 AM
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+1...If more ppl would adopt that mindset, there would be less ppl losing their asses. My car is the only real debt I have as of now. I just got burnt out on the rat race that everybody gets caught up in when it comes to having alot of material posessions. I'm just as happy without all that ---- as I was with it. Stress is a ----------er, and I'll be damned If I'm gonna worry myself to death walking around worryin' about how I'm gonna pay for a bunch of ---- I don't need to begin with. ALOT of ppl have the terms WANTS and NEEDS mixed up...
Exactly, I'm stressed about school work (which is how I should be right now). I know a ton of my classmates are racking up 5 or 10 times the debt I am because they want to have an Escalade or an RDX or the like. Or they have to have the latest and greatest cell phone. My roommates just added 2 new mini Blackberries to their plan that wasn't dead yet, so they ended up paying full price. And for what? So they can check email on their phones. I dunno, people just have their priorities fucked up nowadays. They live to consume rather than consume to live. The media has a lot to do with that though. "My Super Sweet 16" and other stuff like that has been putting the idea that you can't have a good time at your 16th birthday without EVERYTHING going your way, including getting that new Range Rover. And then I see in the news media about places in the middle east where people live in shacks and next door they have Benz's and they go shopping at boutiques and ----. It's just... America's disease is ------ing. What's next, obesity ------ing worldwide? People dealing with the stress that comes with having so many things by eating... living to consume some more?
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Old 09-26-2008, 04:09 AM
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Wtf happened there.. was I not paying attention to which one I was replying to or did doug ninja edit me?
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Old 09-26-2008, 04:52 AM
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You know who will be the best off? The ones that choose to live the most modest of lives. As few possessions and as little a paper trail as possible is the way to go. Make just enough "money" to "purchase" essentials (low income, low responsibility jobs are pretty secure) and try to be self reliant.. Yeah I probably sound like a ------- hobo or post traumatic war vet nutbag or something, but there's some truth to it.

Some people won't be affected too much, even in this country.
Been doing that for the past 4 years. Places I've been looking to move too must have everything I would need within a 1 mile.
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Old 09-26-2008, 04:56 AM
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you guys suck, let the ---- ------- crash ok? then buy stocks, ride it when it comes back. and your golden
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Old 09-26-2008, 01:26 PM
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all the people that just do as they should are the ones that get the shaft as always. we have our house and her car and thats it all the rest is paid for
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Old 09-26-2008, 01:49 PM
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time to go to war
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Old 09-26-2008, 01:59 PM
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so i wonder if thats the "IMPORTANT INFO INSIDE" envelope i got from wamu the other day is about. i should open it.
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Old 09-26-2008, 02:01 PM
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The American Dream is getting people into trouble. But it's not because the Dream is bad, I think it's because the Dream has changed. America used to be about self reliance, not taking it in the *** in a society where everything is based on a superficial 'credit'.

We should be doing better though, wars generally stimulate the economy.
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