Archive for June, 2010
I am currently working with a debt settlement company and right now I would like to talk to someone who has been through this before so I know what to expect especially when it comes to arbitration and trial maybe if I know what is coming I can get rid of this pit in my stomach.
Jacquelyne Sevillano
I just got laidoff and my unemployment check does not cover the bills…what should i do?
Sherril Pellegren
Surely his officers in charge of him would like to know what he is up to.
Would they want to know what is REALLY happening or would I just look like a tattle-tail? He is lying to those in charge of him.
Grady Twedt
I’m abour 5000 in debt and my fiance comes home in less than 6 months and we plan on getting a place together. I want to have all my credit cards paid off by then. I make about 1000 a month and i have a car payment cell phone bill and car insurance that runs me about 550 a month alone. Whats the easiest and quickest way to get all my credit cards paid off by then?
Ferne Franssen
I followed Dave Ramsey’s get out of debt plan and overcame my beliefs that you need credit for large purchases…even houses.
But I still have some mental blocks concerning insurance.
Obviously, I need car insurance where the law requires it, but if I save up enough money, do I really need life insurance and health insurance?
If so, how much do you think I would need to save up?
Lester Javens
I have no debt and have graduated with a degree in chemistry-however, I am still working a dead end job for people with no education and my grades suffered because I was not willing to make the sacrifices that other students were making for their education. I want to attend medical school but will have to attend a post baccalaureate at the least to get it-so was I foolish to do this? Am I further ahead or behind in my pursuit of medicine.
Archie Hochhauser
Ideas from any area are welcome, whether they’re financial tips, ways to save around the house, shortcuts, etc.
Ben Bogatitus
My friend says that he can go to college and go into major debt and then get out of paying for it all by claiming bankruptcy. Sounds like a good idea, but there has to be some really good arguements against it
Kyle Bargar
I am about $200 in debt to my bank and then I have about a $700 rent that needs to be paid, before the end of the next week or I’ll get evicted. I have to pay a lady $220 because we were involved in a car wreck. I need help, honest help that I can repay. I just need time to catch up. What do I do?
Marshall Wind
HOW OBAMA HAS SPENT MONEY
Barack Obama has just spent a near Trillion Dollars on a Healthcare Reform bill that more than 60 percent of Americans do not support. One of many reasons for the lack of public support is the people’s unwillingness to be forced by law to pay for something that may or may not even work.
This is also a reminder that there is a culture among Washington beaurocrats that your money is their money. There is no line drawn in the sand determining when “enough Government is enough Government.” Obama also spent a fortune on auto bailouts to GM, yet Ford ironically benefited from the lack of Govt regulation, GM went bankrupt regardless of the billions spent.
In the history of our country, never before have so many billions of dollars been thrown at pretty much anything. The tone in Washington is since the U.S. is already in a deficit mess, nobody will know the difference if we make it worse….we can just convince everybody all this mess was Bush’s mess until they stop believing it.
HOW OUR COUNTRY WAS DESIGNED TO WORK
Our Founding Fathers intended for the USA to establish the smallest amount of Government possible to defend us from foreign aggressors and protect us from each other. In other words, the only reason for Government regulation anywhere should be to protect the line between another individual, partnership, or corporation’s rights and freedoms from overstepping mine. It is Government in the interest of the people, no Government against the people.
During the 20th century we have expanded the size of Government to a state never seen before, and Obama has just taken it to new heights, a mess we cannot back out of.
If Social Security is not sustainable, nor is medicare, because of the retiring baby-boomer generation, then how can we support monstrous NEW legislation on healthcare reform? This program is not sustainable long-term, it is a disaster. We are putting the taxpayers in a habit of spending we cannot keep, and adding more and more to this.
WHY EXACTLY IS BARACK OBAMA DOING THIS?
I do not dislike Barack Obama as a person, I think his intention has always been to do this best to build this country up and to fight for the unemployed, lower and middle income families, and I will say that his heart is in the right place. Unfortunately, to be an effective leader you have to think long-term.
Simply put, you need to not just think about your popularity, your party base, your target voters, but you really need to stop and think “How is the work I am doing as president going to impact the state of the United States of America long-term? If the best measurement of long-term sustainability is the Federal Debt, then this is going to matter. Just as the debt of Americans eventually forced Americans to stop consuming luxuries, they realized when it was too late that YOU CANT SPEND WHAT YOU DONT HAVE.
I really think Obama means well, but he has lessons to learn, he is young and inexperienced in many facets of life and here is where you pay for that…it comes with the judgment of what people want NOW vs. what really is the long-term impact of what you are doing. This is where age and experience comes into play.
WHAT IS THE IMPACT?
It is uncertain how we will EVER get out of 12 Trillion Dollars of debt, who and what people will devote themselves to this cause and when? It is a plausible question, a frightening one as well, in an uncertain world.
I recommend that we make major changes in November, maybe get some independent party members in Congress, we need major changes in this country, we need a DIFFERENT different direction.
And besides, where are the country’s priorities? If we have 10% unemployment rates, then we have a much much bigger problem than healthcare. First, our focus should be on building the economy, then everything else can fall into place. Without investment, job growth, and innovation, there’s precious little chance we can fund anything at all.
Seymour Lowhorn