What we’re asking is to be able to afford a home and family. If that’s too much for you…

MelonCollie on December 1, 2012 at 9:09 PM

Who’s stopping you? You can afford anything you want. Just don’t ask us to pay for it.

MelonCollie on December 1, 2012 at 9:09 PM

Heh. I remember when you were semi-sane and semi-coherent. When did that stop??

I’m trying to give you people the chance to NOT be slaves to things completely beyond your control; not take anything away from you.

Yeah, and I WANT to be a movie star… Unfortunately that requires stuff I don’t have.

LegendHasIt on December 1, 2012 at 5:01 PM

Hey bitter old wingnut, nobody here is asking to be a movie star. Hell I doubt anyone here would even WANT to be a movie star.

What we’re asking is not pie-in-the-sky liberal “everyone lives in a green mansion” nonsense. What we’re asking is to be able to afford a home and family. If that’s too much for you…

I’m living on a lot less.

davidk on December 1, 2012 at 2:44 PM

Good for you. That still does not correct the fact that someone is still going to have to pay the old obligation of a mortgage of 1200+ rent which could run what? 800? So already your looking at 2000 a month. Working at 15 and hour is 2400 bucks on a normal 40 hour week. That is before taxes are takin out… and all other fun stuff like insurance ect ect.

It’s not an “excuse”. It depends on what business you want to start. Many will require start up money.

Yeah, and I WANT to be a movie star… Unfortunately that requires stuff I don’t have.

Poor, poor, pitiful me.
These old dreams won’t set me free.
Damn oh, damn that reality.

I remember you telling me to quit whining because the GOP wouldn’t give me ‘the perfect candidate’, and suck it up and support Romney, because that is the hand we were dealt.

Right back atcha babe. Suck it up and do what you can with the hand you are dealt.

It’s not an “excuse”. It depends on what business you want to start. Many will require start up money.

And also, as I’ve already said in this tread. Sometimes you just have to admit a loss. If you’re underwater big on a house, it might be best to write it off. Sometimes you have to admit to getting burned or having made a bad decision. There were no guarantees of making out on buying a house. Don’t let it turn you into an unemployable slug. Walk away from if if necessary and rent someplace that has work.
forest on December 1, 2012 at 3:58 PM

You can’t just “walk away from it”. Where can you rent if your credit is in the sewer after “walking away” from your house? As for “bad decisions” it was the federal government who screwed us, so stop blaming Americans for what they did. It’s not my fault there’s a ton of foreclosed houses surrounding me!

True.
Without God/Gaia providing the raw materials, I would have starved or died of exposure.

LegendHasIt on December 1, 2012 at 4:11 PM

“Michelle, I knew it. I’m a god” — BHO

“You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”
davidk on December 1, 2012 at 4:05 PM

True.
Without God/Gaia providing the raw materials, I would have starved or died of exposure.

LegendHasIt on December 1, 2012 at 3:42 PM

“You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

There is a cap a lawyer can make on a SSDI case. It doesn’t seem to be a lot relative to what lawyers charge for work.

Having said, I recognize that the safety net has turned into a hammock for way too many.

davidk on December 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM

If the amount is insignificant, why is it you can’t throw a rock without hitting a billboard for a John Edwards advertising socialist security disability representation?

wildcat72 on December 1, 2012 at 3:27 PM

For Social Security disability lawyers, the fee is limited to 25% of the past-due benefits you are awarded, up to a maximum of $6,000. Note that the attorney will be paid only out of your past-due benefits, or “backpay.” If no back-dated benefits are awarded, the attorney will not receive a fee; nor is he or she permitted to ask you for one.

http://www.disabilitysecrets.com/question16.html

davidk on December 1, 2012 at 2:17 PM

Didn’t say “insignificant.” I said “relative.” Lawyers typically charge 1/3 to 1/2 of amount awarded to plaintiff.