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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is fake news.  There's no law that says a federal employe can't have credit card debts.  The only issue I am aware is whether the employee took care of his or her just obligations.  There's nothing in this thread that suggests that Kavanaugh didn't.  [/quote]
Mystery money. Where did the mystery money come from to pay off his debts? That’s not “fake news.” That’s a big dang deal.[/quote]

Generally, the problem is if Kavanaugh didn't disclose his debt and someone, somehow discovered he lied on the disclosure form.  No one's suggesting he lied.  And if you can't imagine how someone could pay off a $200,000 cc debt legitimately, it's probably due to your lack of imagination, wishful thinking - or more likely your politics getting in the way of critical thinking.  I can imagine many ways in which someone could pay down his or he rdebt, so this is a non-issue until someone on the left can be more specific about what Kavanaugh did that is so illegal.  [/quote]

And no one is saying he did anything illegal - yet. It’s just eyebrow raising, and not the judgment you want to see in a current federal judge and Supreme Court nominee, for him to have only mid-five figures in assets outside of his retirement and personal residence, and with all the past debt, and with all the debt suddenly paid off. Bad things happen when judges are broke.[/quote]

Really? It's eyebrow raising for a judge to have the same sorts of finances most of the rest of us who are reasonably well off have? Most middle class wealth is in our homes and retirement accounts. Most of us do not have buckets of money sitting around in other areas. And if we ran up expenses for something, we could pay it off. We're not really "broke" and stopping starbucks or eating out or finally cutting cable and getting our friends to pay us back and our parents doing some inheritance tax planning all of that can put some money in our pockets pretty quickly.

Broke would be payday loan and selling the furniture territory. Not "got exuberant with season tickets and vacation two years ago, and unexpectedly had some house expenses, have to go back to the basics with budgeting and not be so free flowing" territory.

Get outside of your bubble and you'll find that a lot of people live like this.[/quote]

You know what’s a bubble- thinking someone that someone who makes $300k annually and has a $1.2M house is how a lot of people live. Broke is broke. It doesn’t matter if you have extensive debt with s fancy house or if you borrow money to make rent. Relying on your parents inheritance tax planning to pay off charges you ran up overspending on baseball tickets is also broke. His debt didn’t get resolved by cutting out Starbucks or cutting cable. Paying off that amount of debt takes years of discipline. Speak for yourself about the same sorts of finances. Some of us have good judgement.[/quote]

That is exactly how a lot of people live in this area. UMC folks who have enough money not to need to worry too much, but not so much we can do anything we want to do.

Government employees do well, and count on the retirement so aren't as likely to cut immediate expenses for extra buckets of money.

Perhaps you should meet some actually broke people. Can't pay for a car repair, have already sold their belongings that are worth anything, plan on which utility is getting cut off this month, broke.[/quote]
So? None of those people are being nominated for SCOTUS.[/quote]

Why do you want to add a requirement that only rich people can be considered for SCOTUS? Is it that "the good schools" are now admitting some regular people and thus are no longer the filter they used to be, so we have to be more blatant in our classism?[/quote]

As someone posted above -

“The mishandling of his finances is a really big deal actually. Check out bar exam character and fitness requirements - and this is just to be admitted to the bar - we’re talking about the Supreme Court here.”

Plus, as multiple people have posted above, this amount of debt versus income and assets would be a problem getting a security clearance. [/quote]

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