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ooIRON MANoo wrote
Wall Street has America by the balls right now, and they really don't do ***#. They make money out of imaginary money.
They make money from people like us whom are taught to save and invest.
For example... for all you folks that contribute to a retirement plan... Do you know how much in fees you pay for your 401(k) to be administered? Americans contribute up to 15% of their Wages annually to these retirement plans and these investment firms are just STEALING your money by charging enormous fees which we the participants don't even know about.
Why?
Because it wasn't to their benefit to disclose these fees on the statements they sent you. The govt has known this and finally after all these years and now that our retirement plans are plummeting, this govt has finally passed legislation which requires that all fees paid are to be disclosed in our statements which will take affect next year. Why did it take so long for them to pass this law? Wall Street controls the Govt by using Lobbyists.
Originally Posted by Hizzle
im with you Audi, although i sympathize with some of these individuals and im realistic that im not ammune to one day God forbid losing everything i got in the drop of a dime, right this instance im blessed, while others scramble for jobs, i have a FT and a PT both with great benefits and on top of that grinding with my photography biz, although i can live on one job, i rather not risk losing my only job and being unemployed....my luck must be really crappy if I was to lose both my jobs.....best of luck to everyone going through the struggle.Originally Posted by Al Audi
Originally Posted by goDie
Originally Posted by Al Audi
well. guess im not in the 99%
im not ballin but im very well off.
especially since i didnt finish school.
one day....maybe.
This is exactly how THE MAN wants you to think.
Give us just enough crumbs to think we have no need to fight the system.
no it is a messed up system but at the end of the day what can i do?
was i gonna call out of my FT job with premium health insurance to go stand on a bridge?
Bingo.Originally Posted by SunDOOBIE
They make money from people like us whom are taught to save and invest.
1. People who say they couldn't go to school because they couldn't afford it are full of ***#. It's a cop out to help them feel better for not having the drive to finish school.Originally Posted by ooIRON MANoo
Originally Posted by MrPolow23
i Work for an investment Firm.(Doesn't Matter which) last week account for 200,000. Pay Checks 15,000-30,000 every check.
Firm takes a % and walk with the rest.
Get your series 7's Stop crying!Because you probably work for an investment firm that got bailed out with tax/govt dollars while many Americans continued to drown in debt.
You really don't do anything, you trade "assets" and "stocks" things that are not visible, just numbers on the board that constantly get floated around. Sure some of these people made poor choices, but so did the banks and iBankers, that don't really do much for our society. Which brings me to this point:
if you can't afford college dont go, many young men/women make that choice every day...you can't expect the govt to bail you out do you know how many people they would have to bail and what about the people who didnt go to school because they couldnt afford it, if you bail out the kids with crazy loans shouldnt you also give money to kids who couldnt afford to go to school
i dont know if im misunderstanding what you are saying, but if you are implying going to a cheap community college is a bad idea, you ARE WRONG....Originally Posted by iM COOL C
To everyone saying "go to a community college & kick its $%!" ... let me just see if I got this
So assuming what you guys are saying is going to community college means going to an "easier" school than a regular 4 year school... meaning its cheaper more affordable to go to, but still your getting a degree after 60 credits... then your supposed to do SOOOOO good that a 4 year college is supposed to impressed by your "$%! kicking" of the community college that they should PAY for your education..
But what if I went to this community college that doesn't dorm, that requires gas/bus/train money, oh and I have to buy books and I have to work full time because you know not everyone has parents, financial aid, blessed with good grades in HS, ideal situations, normal upbringing whatever... And to now have to worry about the corporations taking everyones money for now and later is unacceptable.
No loans are out there, no start up money, the odds of the next Steve Jobs / George Lucas whoever to come out in the next 20 years isn't likely. Cost of living is going up, more babies are being born, the "99%" is expanding by the day.
Nothings wrong with living check to check, but to know that a check is coming or available if I look/work hard enough is reassuring as opposed to not even being able to afford to get a !!##$+!+ degree that won't guarantee a damn thing..
My bartending license is worth more than my associates from Kingsborough. The teaching in schools is getting worse & we just lay off teachers especially young ones.. smh where we headed with that thinking
Well said ksteezy.Originally Posted by ksteezy
i dont know if im misunderstanding what you are saying, but if you are implying going to a cheap community college is a bad idea, you ARE WRONG....Originally Posted by iM COOL C
To everyone saying "go to a community college & kick its $%!" ... let me just see if I got this
So assuming what you guys are saying is going to community college means going to an "easier" school than a regular 4 year school... meaning its cheaper more affordable to go to, but still your getting a degree after 60 credits... then your supposed to do SOOOOO good that a 4 year college is supposed to impressed by your "$%! kicking" of the community college that they should PAY for your education..
But what if I went to this community college that doesn't dorm, that requires gas/bus/train money, oh and I have to buy books and I have to work full time because you know not everyone has parents, financial aid, blessed with good grades in HS, ideal situations, normal upbringing whatever... And to now have to worry about the corporations taking everyones money for now and later is unacceptable.
No loans are out there, no start up money, the odds of the next Steve Jobs / George Lucas whoever to come out in the next 20 years isn't likely. Cost of living is going up, more babies are being born, the "99%" is expanding by the day.
Nothings wrong with living check to check, but to know that a check is coming or available if I look/work hard enough is reassuring as opposed to not even being able to afford to get a !!##$+!+ degree that won't guarantee a damn thing..
My bartending license is worth more than my associates from Kingsborough. The teaching in schools is getting worse & we just lay off teachers especially young ones.. smh where we headed with that thinking
making a carreer choice is probably the first fork in the road for all of us, its a deciding factor of how the rest of your life will pan out, most freshmen in college have no clue what they want to do in life, yet they start off taking 50k+ loans for wasted education, majors that they will probably end up changing their mind about within the next year, i see it happen way too often, the %%#$*# up thing is that now they already in the hole....had they gone to a community college either financial aid would have covered or their loans would be minimum and depending what type of career they choose to follow, they can be very well off with an associates straight from a community college (medical field based)...after that you are still fairly young, but experienced enough to make a goood decision about what you want to do....who says is too late to enroll in a better college? and continue your education??....
I went to a community college, financial aid paid for the 3 years i was there, every semester i collected a check for close to 1500$....i graduated with an AAS in Resp. Therapy, no debt whatsoever, making over 60k in one job and close to 40k in my other, granted in order to get the best out of a Community College you'll be very limited about which way in life you want to go, but going there as opposed to a 4 year 50k/year university is definately not a poor choice...specially at a young age when everyone wants to be either a doctor or a lawyer until they get hit with the first reality check of their life, that IS NOT EASY.
QFT. REALEST STATEMENT IN HERE.Originally Posted by devildog1776
to those people who feel like they are not part of the 99 percent ask yourself these questions
- do you OWN a 80,000 car?
- do you live in a million dollar house?
- do you have 500000 plus in stock options?
if you answer 1 out of the 3 as yes you are not part of the 99 percent...
just because most kids go straight to college after high school is the lack of oversight being set forth by the parents... most of these degrees being offered are a joke in todays time especially when everyone thinks they know everything..
the cccupywallst movement is not only a msg to wall st but also a msg to WASHINGTON.... the time is coming for a drastic change and the government wil have to make a decision or step down ....
the system has failed us...
if most of you lost your jobs tomorrow, you'll be broke in 2 weeks maybe a month....
is that suppose to be life?
who came up with this 99% idea though....is it an actual study? srs question...Originally Posted by memphissfinest
QFT. REALEST STATEMENT IN HERE.Originally Posted by devildog1776
to those people who feel like they are not part of the 99 percent ask yourself these questions
- do you OWN a 80,000 car?
- do you live in a million dollar house?
- do you have 500000 plus in stock options?
if you answer 1 out of the 3 as yes you are not part of the 99 percent...
just because most kids go straight to college after high school is the lack of oversight being set forth by the parents... most of these degrees being offered are a joke in todays time especially when everyone thinks they know everything..
the cccupywallst movement is not only a msg to wall st but also a msg to WASHINGTON.... the time is coming for a drastic change and the government wil have to make a decision or step down ....
the system has failed us...
if most of you lost your jobs tomorrow, you'll be broke in 2 weeks maybe a month....
is that suppose to be life?
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE IN THE 99% AND DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.
Originally Posted by ksteezy
who came up with this 99% idea though....is it an actual study? srs question...Originally Posted by memphissfinest
QFT. REALEST STATEMENT IN HERE.Originally Posted by devildog1776
to those people who feel like they are not part of the 99 percent ask yourself these questions
- do you OWN a 80,000 car?
- do you live in a million dollar house?
- do you have 500000 plus in stock options?
if you answer 1 out of the 3 as yes you are not part of the 99 percent...
just because most kids go straight to college after high school is the lack of oversight being set forth by the parents... most of these degrees being offered are a joke in todays time especially when everyone thinks they know everything..
the cccupywallst movement is not only a msg to wall st but also a msg to WASHINGTON.... the time is coming for a drastic change and the government wil have to make a decision or step down ....
the system has failed us...
if most of you lost your jobs tomorrow, you'll be broke in 2 weeks maybe a month....
is that suppose to be life?
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE IN THE 99% AND DON'T EVEN KNOW IT.
just because you dont drive an r8, own a mansion and have a #%@%$%!# of money invested in stocks, DOESNT mean that you dont have a savings that can hold you down for a bit, or that you dont live an ok life....the thing you are missing is that EVERYTHING IS RELEVANT....the more you have, the more you spend...that same dude that has the r8 and the mansion, will go broke just as quick if not quicker than the average joe, if they were to lose their primary source of income....rich people dont go broke?
Originally Posted by Dathbgboy
Reading a lot of these posts show how much of a fantasy world many of you are living it. Yall say nobody's tellin u to go to college, they've been sayin it for years "Go to college, get a degree, get a good job a HS diploma can't get u."
Go to a cheaper college, cool, that degree from that cheaper college won't be good enough for many companies. Remember Harvard, Yale, etc are still prized universities.
Work hard and get your school paid for. I know ppl who graduated top of my class in HS w/ a 4.6 GPA and still couldn't get a full ride.
Yall gotta understand that the system has failed the majority. When u got ppl gettin slaps on the wrists from ruining the lives of millions with the stroke of a pen, you have a problem.
Meanwhile you got firms taking extravagant "business retreats" to Vegas at plush hotels and writing them off as business expenses.
Working up to living very comfortably w/o a degree is a luck notion, not everyone will do it.
Now a days it's more who you know and not what you know. And unless u luck up, the small clerk or mail runner won't get that chance to rub elbows w/ the big dogs.
Originally Posted by prestigeworldwidex21
"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither"
-Benjamin Franklin