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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #275 on: May 10, 2019, 01:46:03 PM »
Add "market forces" to the list of things AOC has never heard of.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #276 on: May 10, 2019, 01:58:46 PM »
Check cashing places and pay loan people charge quite a bit also, but people still keep going back to those places.  No law will make up for people being foolish with their money.

One of my employers, over the years, got into rent to own.  He loved it, even with the headaches.  If the renter/buyer ever managed to pay off the item, he'd have paid either 2 or 4 (I forget which) times what it was worth.

One of my current customers is a low end used car dealer.  If you're on my Book of Faces you'll have seen an occasional rant from my dealing with them.  They kind of place where if you don't make weekly payments they repo the vehicle.  In the main location there are more people in collections, than sales.

Yes, it sucks to be on the consumer side of this. 
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #277 on: May 10, 2019, 02:07:59 PM »
Company I used to work for used to build and refurb PCs for a RTO chain. We were building the PCs for roughly $500. Once in while when one came in for refurb the RTO paperwork would be in the box. To actually own the $500 PC from the RTO chain the customer would wind up paying over $3,000 over 2 or maybe 3 years, fuzzy memory on the time.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #278 on: May 10, 2019, 02:32:23 PM »
I understand the hot new ticket these days in car repossession is a GPS remote disabling device such that if you miss a payment, the car shuts down and sends a signal of the location to make it easy for the dealer to come get it.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #279 on: May 10, 2019, 03:42:21 PM »
So you're okay with the government interfering in free market economics, financials, and liberty?

Yes

Only in the libertarian utopia that never existed and never will does government not interfere in those areas.

Libertarians and conservatives have been getting butt raped by the left due to the slavish devotion to unrealistic principles that only would work in a utopia with better humans.

I say this with all due respect guys, I was a long time libertarian. I voted for Ron Paul when he ran on the big L ticket against Bush.

Libertarianism is leftist and suicidal in a global economy.

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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #280 on: May 12, 2019, 08:12:45 AM »
Yes

Only in the libertarian utopia that never existed and never will does government not interfere in those areas.

Libertarians and conservatives have been getting butt raped by the left due to the slavish devotion to unrealistic principles that only would work in a utopia with better humans.

I say this with all due respect guys, I was a long time libertarian. I voted for Ron Paul when he ran on the big L ticket against Bush.

Libertarianism is leftist and suicidal in a global economy.

Nationalism and federalism will make us stronger on the world stage.



Credit is a pretty basic thing.  People who are too stupid to participate correctly in the economy pay a higher price for credit. 
Excessive government interference in consumer credit rates will not produce the intended result.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #281 on: May 12, 2019, 10:42:32 AM »
Agreed.  Excessive being the key word.  

But I think Ron is right in that some Govt is needed to set boundaries and enforce that.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #282 on: May 12, 2019, 11:57:48 AM »


Ocasio-Cortez takes spin in Pelosi’s chair to preside over House
https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/ocasio-cortez-takes-spin-in-pelosis-chair-to-preside-over-house/

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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #283 on: May 12, 2019, 12:58:39 PM »

Ocasio-Cortez takes spin in Pelosi’s chair to preside over House
https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/ocasio-cortez-takes-spin-in-pelosis-chair-to-preside-over-house/

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Something they all get to do, but of course she's the only one that I've ever seen get press about it.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #284 on: May 12, 2019, 01:25:24 PM »
I recall they made a big deal about Hillary presiding when she was Senator.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #285 on: May 13, 2019, 09:07:47 AM »
She was now "only kidding" about the "end of times in 12 years" thing. How could stupid conservatives have taken her seriously? Like they say, the gift that keeps on giving...

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2019/05/13/sure-thats-the-takeaway-the-hill-spins-like-theyve-never-spun-before-covering-aocs-claim-she-was-joking-about-world-ending/
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #286 on: May 13, 2019, 09:29:10 AM »
Saw that.
Wish everyone who voted for her would come out and say "just kidding"
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #287 on: May 13, 2019, 04:11:16 PM »
Saw that.
Wish everyone who voted for her would come out and say "just kidding"

Yeah, but all the people who voted for her think it's an in joke, and that they're in on the joke.

The don't understand that they (along with her) ARE the joke. And that the joke isn't funny.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #288 on: May 15, 2019, 09:58:44 PM »
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #290 on: May 17, 2019, 04:32:48 PM »
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #291 on: May 18, 2019, 08:19:44 AM »
About the cows
According to this AOC should be more concern about the other end of the cow

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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #292 on: May 20, 2019, 11:56:04 AM »
Ocasio-Cortez’s superhero alter ego shut down by DC Comics
https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/ocasio-cortezs-superhero-alter-ego-shut-down-by-dc-comics/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #293 on: May 20, 2019, 12:02:45 PM »
Ocasio-Cortez’s superhero alter ego shut down by DC Comics
https://nypost.com/2019/05/18/ocasio-cortezs-superhero-alter-ego-shut-down-by-dc-comics/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
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I like the part where a commenter wondered what the outcry would be if it were Obama being punched instead of Trump.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #294 on: May 20, 2019, 12:40:25 PM »
I like the part where a commenter wondered what the outcry would be if it were Obama being punched instead of Trump.

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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #295 on: May 20, 2019, 01:28:43 PM »
Mass hysteria

... and proof that the U.S. is a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynist white supremacist patriarchy.  Or something.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #296 on: May 21, 2019, 02:02:03 PM »
... and now cauliflower is racist:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-growing-cauliflower-colonial

https://youtu.be/PUJ6o4tqwyM?t=84

Also: community gardens aren't popular with people of color because of colonialism.
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #297 on: May 21, 2019, 02:12:55 PM »
... and now cauliflower is racist:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-growing-cauliflower-colonial

https://youtu.be/PUJ6o4tqwyM?t=84

Also: community gardens aren't popular with people of color because of colonialism.


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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #298 on: May 21, 2019, 02:42:39 PM »
Cauliflower farts

Well, those are pretty nasty ...
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Re: The Bronx chick strikes out
« Reply #299 on: May 21, 2019, 03:01:22 PM »
Well, those are pretty nasty ...


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