Posted on 03/03/2005 12:35:33 AM PST by Graybeard58
That's easy. NO ONE!!
Mr.Kennedy, please refresh my memory on how much your Big Dig cost. I believe it to be $14.6 billion.I guess it isn't just credit card companies who are making a profit. The big hole is right in your backyard and you are still trying to fill it with taxpayer monies.
I wonder what his liver looks like.
Rush and Howie Carr played it a bunch of times.
It was like he was screaming for Mary Jo down in the Olds.
I'm not sure, but it might be as good as the DeanScream.
Hello? Hello? This whole issue is whether people above median level income should get their wages garnished if they declare bankruptcy. Hello? And he's hoping to scare us into thinking bankruptcy changes will hurt suffering poor people, victims of Eeeevile Republicans. Nope. The only ones hurting poor people are the rats, who want plenty of FICA money rolling in so they can play shell games with it.
whoa,... glad I don't imbibe anymore,...and ol' Teddy Wetbrain still has his drivers licence??
Which one is the picture of my brain and which one is the picture of my liver? LOL
I'm actually sorry I googled up those images and posted them. I'm a squeamish sort, and those pictures are really giving me the willies.
I'll think about THAT next time I pop open a cold one. Euh.
No, no! Go ahead! I'm having so much fun seeing these pictures!
What a joke. Kennedy wants you to think credit card companies are evil. Maybe they are if you are in debt; or if you are late on a payment. But that’s all spelled out in the agreement. You don’t have to use one. While Kennedy is claiming to look out for those filing bankruptcy, they are screwing honest Americans who carry a balance on credit card accounts and are not filing bankruptcy. The credit card companies are going to make their money either way. They will either will get more money from those filing bankruptcy or get it from the rest of their customers. The interest rates cover bankruptcy and fraud. And they get their percent from the merchants. If you have a good credit rating, you can shop and negotiate your interest rate, but only to a point. If it’s harder to file bankruptcy or write of credit card debt, you might be able to negotiate better rates.
Senator Kennedy, you are not debating how much credit card companies should make or how much they do make, you are debating how much citizens who don’t file bankruptcy should have to cover the losses to credit card companies of those who do file. Most of us look at the credit card companies as providing a service. I don’t have to carry cash. And even paying it off in full each month, they still make money from merchants based on what I buy [which is built into the price]. I’d still pay the same price if I paid cash or by check or by debit card.
I don’t know all the details of the bill, but if Kennedy is against it, I’m for it.
The sad part: the Swimmer is running for re-election next year and the GOP has already pretty much conceded it to him. Anyone want to run against Ted next year for the Senate seat he feels belongs to him for eternity?
Sounds about right to me. I don't know what the bill's about either (well, maybe an inkling).
I recently finished The Sins of the Father, Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded by Ronald Kessler
Oops hold on, Meg Ryan is boinking someone in that In The Cut movie on cable.
OK, she got hers (always fun to see a "Disney" actress get wild, LOL).
Anyway, the book describes what a scumbag Teddy's pop was, how bleeped up the entire family was and still is, and how pop's traits carried down through the genereation. Good read.
Wish I had read it before moving up here.
Me: "No, but I can smell you coming from a mile away!"
I was listening to Rush when he first played Swimmer saying this...Rush then went into a beautifully accurate tirade against Kennedy and his ilk, ending each litany with "Hello? Hello??!" I thought I was going to have to pull off the road, I was laughing so hard.
I wouldn't call credit card companies evil, but they do gouge people for every penny the law will allow.
I went on vacation in May last year, and carelessly spent far to much money, going over the limit on my credit cards. I didn't have the funds to immediately pay the over-the-limit amounts, the over-the-limit fees and the regular payments all at once. So, for the next three months I had a series of late payments as I juggled bills.
Now, I'm saddled with 28% interest rates and very high payments until my credit score comes down again, however long that will be. In the meantime, my credit balance goes down only about $20 per month.
Yes, it is legal, and yes, it is my own fault. Meantime, the credit companies are making huge profits off me, and will for many months to come. Bills are nearly impossible to pay off at 28% interest. That's what bills like this, and others that increase the interest rate ceiling, are really about, to keep people in debt forever.
This law is intended to keep people from having their debts eliminated in bankruptcy court for reasons that have nothing to do with a hardship on the part of the person in debt. "I spent too much on vacation," would probably count as one of those.
We already do El Rushbo, but the urine ain't from a cow.
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