Also, my amazing and thoughtful comments have been deleted.
Also:
Ok, first off, I never talked about $150,000, so it’s not relevant to the conversation. Secondly, the $150k you’re referring to was in the actual stimulus package for couples, not single people. Third, do you have $120,000 in student loans, paying $1200 a month for them in addition to your rent? Anyone who’s gone to graduate school in any professional degree, law, medicine, does. You’d be hard pressed to explain how you live on $40,000 a year paying, say, $1200 a month on rent (if you’re lucky), and another $1200 on your grad school loans – leaving you a little over 11k to pay for utilities, insurance, food, and that’s of course assuming that you pay none of that $40k in fed taxes, local taxes, or SS. And I have to tell you, I know lots of people in NYC, and not a single person would say that you get by fine on $40,000 a year in New York City, unless you aren’t paying for insurance, didn’t bother to go to grad school, aren’t putting any real money away for retirement, and aren’t planning on ever buying a first home. So, I’m sorry, but you’re not describing “living” in my book. You’re getting by with no plans for a future. And that’s the very problem I’m describing, unless we’ve now given up on the idea of people getting an education, having health care, and actually ever owning a home, i.e., we now consider all of those luxuries that don’t fit into the equation. I certainly don’t consider them luxuries.
John Aravosis | 01.25.08 – 3:16 pm | #
Just because you categorize your debt as student loans, doesn’t mean that it’s your debt. What about your flat screen TV? You paid for that. What if you had paid for school and charged your TV? Would that count towards your sainthood?
There is so much wrong with his logic that I don’t have the time to explain it. He is like the Dyson Logic Suck 6000. No common sense can escape his suction.
I saw comment that said “For $120,000 I am sure you had a logic class, John”. it was priceless. I am sure that guy was banned.
Good lord, I would think a Democrat who was making 75K a year would have the good sense not to whine about it.
Self-important over-privileged blowhards on teh RIGHT side of the aisle, John.
Please, Cookie Jesus, let me have time tonight to record the battle rap.
I certainly don’t consider them luxuries.
Therein lies the true problem…
Let us consider the sub-species Dromaius novaehollandiae Aravosis. This rare type of emu inhabits mostly coastal areas in North America but has been known to migrate to Europe from time to time. It subsists on double espressos, expensive French wines, and righteous, but misplaced, indignation.
While having the same appearance as the more common Dromaius novaehollandiae, its behaviour makes it immediately recognizable: the emu will squawk loudly and unintelligibly when confronted, and will attempt to chase off intruders. They are notoriously territorial, and should only ever be observed at a distance.
However, their bile, when properly harvested, is quite valuable, as it is believed to drive down commenter membership and increase ridicule.
PS Pinko totally needs to put that screencap up as a banner. Badge of honour, indeed. Carry on cobagitating!
You know,I wish I could afford go to Paris a couple times a year like John does. I mean,unless he’s travelling for free,it’s not cheap. Hell,that could make a couple of those loan payments he’s bitching about.
What does John do besides blog and ask for money a few times a year? If he’s so badly in debt,he could do what we do at my house,GET A SECOND JOB to pay down debts.
Ok,nevermind. He appearantly goes to Paris on bidness so it’s free. Which I guess means he actually has a job. But,I don’t take back the get a second job thing.
He’s still a misogynist ass chapeau though. Not to mention a spoiled brat.
If there are any 3Bullsies around, can you delete the above comment from me? Thanks!!
Thank you Pinko Punko for the Badge of Honor! Oh man, we are going to wear it proudly in the back seat of the White Noise Insanity limo for the rest of eternity!
So many people are prominent in blogs because they got their first, such as Aravosis and Kos. To bad they don’t have more of value to say.
Well, Kos is an odd place sometimes, but they have thousands of voices, some louder than others. John almost doesn’t even have a voice. He’s not a great thinker and since he’s paid to blog, all he does is link the stories of the day. He’s a super jerkoff and we hate him forever!!!!!!!!! Kidding, we are only strongly annoyed by him, but he’ll call us jealous no matta what.
PP you are just being a catty bitch.
Oh, that particular comment of his was made after my comment, because apparently I was bullshitting to him because I live on a $40K salary, because he “knows” of “many” people who live in New York who are struggling on a $75K salary, that according to him $1,200 in rent is “lucky,” and also apparently the only people whose struggle is valid are the ones in 120K debt due to student loans, and labeled me as not having plans for a future when I obviously did not in depth describe my situation (which I did follow up after his pathetic rant, but boo-hoo, he deleted everything, oh so he thinks).*
Mind you, I’m the one who has been living in NYC all my life, grew up in a working class environment, in a neighborhood that probably would have been beneath him anyway, and most of the people I know make less than me and are managing well, perhaps better than me. But of course, he’s omniscient, so I don’t know any better.
*Not to say that those experiences are not valid, but sheesh, come on, not everyone is destined to go off to professional school. So it’s pathetic for him to downgrade those experiences that do not include a 120K student loan debt, as well as experiences that do not include a $2,000 health insurance premium.
Yeah, L-K- he’s an ultra chump. He’s so many ways wrong on this issue, he’s like a bolus of anti-wrong particles trying to destroy any rightness with which he comes in contact!
Oy. The emu in question is so spoiled that he doesn’t even get how spoiled he is. He makes enough by blogging to be able to afford insurance, pay off debt, save for retirement, AND save for a house, and he’s whining that he might not get the couple hundred bucks? Cri. mi. ny. And, as usual, we get all the defensiveness, the how-dare-you-be-such-meanies, followed by the deleting and the banning.
By the way, PP, praying to Cookie Jesus is so 2007. The hot new thing is Potato Jesus: http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2008/01/freethinker_sunday_sermonette_83.php