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bassexpander



Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:46 pm    Post subject: Yeah, I feel sorry for you Reply with quote
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/12/07/gutierrez.uc.tuititon.protests.cnn

She drives a new Honda, and she's complaining that she can't afford a tuition increase?? Budgeting? Priorities?

Try not buying a new car, maybe?? How about a cheaper car??

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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'll never understand why people feel they are entitled to live beyond their means.
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Fox



Joined: 04 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Underwaterbob wrote:
I'll never understand why people feel they are entitled to live beyond their means.


Because of credit. Let people have everything they want as long as they promise to pay for it later, and many of them will take more than they can afford and then play victim.
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jmuns



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
yeah what is she complaining about, her house looks pretty nice too just from the kitchen. is it just her mom earning the money to live there? and i like how cnn goes on to say that law school will just pile more debt on to her life. yeah well no one is forcing her to go to ucla or law school.
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Fox



Joined: 04 Mar 2009
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 4:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
jmuns wrote:
and i like how cnn goes on to say that law school will just pile more debt on to her life. yeah well no one is forcing her to go to ucla or law school.


Seriously. If she doesn't think it's economically beneficial to do it, then she shouldn't go.
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xingyiman



Joined: 12 Jan 2006
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Keeping up with the Joneses
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jmuns



Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
xingyiman wrote:
Keeping up with the Joneses


well said
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xingyiman



Joined: 12 Jan 2006
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
jmuns wrote:
xingyiman wrote:
Keeping up with the Joneses


well said


The problem is that everybody falls into it. I dare you to go back to wherever you came from and try to live on the margins of society in order to save money. Pretty soon you'll be socially ostracized, or at least not hanging with the kind of crowd you'd really like to. We can slip through the cracks here in Korea because we aren't held to Korean cultural standards, not unlike miniorities back home who can live 6 to an apartment and share a car or two. But when you're one of the natives the rules change. I tried to "rough it" back in the states for a while to save money, no car live in a cheap hotel, etc... It was amazing how peoples' attitudes toward me changed.
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jmuns



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
xingyiman wrote:
jmuns wrote:
xingyiman wrote:
Keeping up with the Joneses


well said


The problem is that everybody falls into it. I dare you to go back to wherever you came from and try to live on the margins of society in order to save money. Pretty soon you'll be socially ostracized, or at least not hanging with the kind of crowd you'd really like to. We can slip through the cracks here in Korea because we aren't held to Korean cultural standards, not unlike miniorities back home who can live 6 to an apartment and share a car or two. But when you're one of the natives the rules change. I tried to "rough it" back in the states for a while to save money, no car live in a cheap hotel, etc... It was amazing how peoples' attitudes toward me changed.


i fall into it as well. however i also realize that its my choices i'm making, and when i have no money back home, or student loans that i am paying off now and will be for a long time, i dont feel bad about it. i made the choice and i'm going to pay for it. and you're right, people will totally look at you as an outcast for living like you were trying to.
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VanIslander



Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
There's a guy here who moans all the time about the expensive mortgage he's paying on a big house in Florida and his constant cries of poverty is supposed to excuse his not chipping in for gas when we go in my car on a road trip. Confused
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banjois



Joined: 14 Nov 2009
PostPosted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Anybody notice the two laptops she had?

There's keeping up wi