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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole thread is nuts. It is hard to DIY when you don’t own a house. You can’t own a house if you can’t save the money. My sister pulls together odd jobs and has no future earning potential. She pays next to nothing in rent but I know I’m her emergency plan.

Starting out, I had to drop out of college because my finances got screwed up in loans (long story) and I couldn’t get out of the debt hole for almost 10 years (and that includes living with roommates and only having a phone when needed). When my $1700 car needed a new clutch, that was a crisis I couldn’t afford. When it died, I could have lost my job if I didn’t have a miracle happen. I had a paycheck screwup (it went to the wrong office) and I didn’t have metro fare to go get it. So I walked everywhere (luckily I could walk 2 miles to work in the summer)  and skipped food (not eating out, actual food, unless one of my friends shared) for 2 weeks while I waited for the check to come to the right office so I could cash it.

Friends of mine from growing up are working one underpaid job with a second job, relying on parents for child care. One is an emt, but isn’t in a position to ever buy a house. Emergencies do put them underwater.

Another family member was in a debt tailspin for medical bills. Hell, an er copay for me was unaffordable, so I didn’t pay and it stayed on my credit report (along with a hell of a lot of other bad things) for years.

In this thread, I really wonder how many people posting have ever been in any position where they ever experienced any of that. [/quote]

And, when my husband was 18, no opportunity for college, he joined the military.  You have options.... you just may not like them.  Because of his military service, we get low cost health care for life..takes away that issue. [/quote]
And here you have it, ladies and gentlemen, if you don’t want to end up homeless in America, you simply have to sign up to get your ass shot off in a war that makes billionaire traitors even richer. [/quote]

What war makes which billionaires richer?[/quote]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_profiteering

It's hard to bear that you H was in the  Iraq war for the profit of sick (haha type but approproate, so it stays) Chaney instead of for reasons he thought he was there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

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